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Old 01-05-2006, 04:00 AM
Ken Blake, MVP
 
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Default Re: Using a TV for a Computer monitor

Rctfreak wrote:

> You need to be aware that in most cases a TV makes an extremely poor
> monitor for a computer. The picture will be poor, fuzzy, grainy, just
> absolutely terrible in most cases. The reason being is that the
> resolution that your video card uses will have to be downgraded a lot
> to be compatible with the TV.
>
> Now there is some hope though. A lot of the newer HDTV monitors now
> have DVI inputs on them which in some cases can be hooked up to a
> computer and used as a computer monitor. The reason these work well
> is because the HDTV has much higher pixel resolution than a standard
> TV.



I know nedxt to nothing about HDTV, and I'm curious about this. If one had
an HDTV set that could be used as a monitor, what's the highest resolution
it would support?

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