[slinkelist] PC to TV Converter

[Colby Boles]

I agree with Michael. Check out the Matrox G400 card with the dual outputs.
This is great for showing a screen on the TV and one on your monitor at the
same time. Each is totally independent in terms of resolution, scan rate,
display area, etc.

Colby

> -----Original Message-----
> From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> Behalf Of Michael Holopainen
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 2:14 AM
> To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject: Re: [slinkelist] PC to TV Converter
>
>
> year ago I tested
> AverKey 5+ and hooked it up to projection TV via RBG cable, and the
> picture was wayyy to bad, after 3-4 hours of testing & using it I had
> one H**l of headache. I returned that and bought Diamond viper 550
> displayadapter w/ TV out.
> And I was in for a BIG suprise, that 20$ addon gave better picture (via
> s-vhs) than that 1000$ pro converter.
>
> Also I tried that V550 on "normal" 25" tv and picture was not very
> good,  though the tv was +10 years old and I used composite video signal
> 20feet cable made of 3 different bad wires (ones that I would not even
> use for radio antenna) and passed signal via VCR to TV.
>
> But I heard & seen few others trying to use diffent equipment and get
> different results with same equipment ...
>
> So my "professinal" ;) opinion is : do not waste too much money on this,
> spending 5000$ on vga converter does not guarantee ANY better (or even
> same) picture that paying 20$ more for displayadapter version with TV
> out.
> Because the picture quality is 98% up to your TV and 2% of the
> conversion.
> Specially now that DIGI tv is around the corner.
>
> Best thing would be to get HDTV, or at least 100Hz tv with s-vhs in.
> Like some one said TV and VGA tech are totally incompatible:
>
> Resolution info :
> normal vhs signal (VCR) is something like 240 lines, broadcast rez is
> some 300,
> s-vhs signal MAX is 400 lines,
> HDTV is 800 and the super/extra HDTV is 1280.
>
> theoreticly cheap tv can be so bad that it only can handle 240 rez and
> you would not see the difference in normal VCR picture (in resolution,
> that is).
> So if you have 1280x1000 rez in winblows youd need 20 television !!!!
> to display all the pixels in your monitor screen.
>
> In conc.
> Don't think what vga -> tv converter to buy, think what TV to buy.
>
>
> P.S. I did test comp, s-vhs, RBG of the AverKey 5+ and all possible
> tuning etc.
>
>
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