Connecting Internet to TV

Cubist · Post by **Cubist** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:20 am

Has anyone done this? Basically, it's my old mans birthday, he loves watching utube, but crouches infront of the computer. I was thinking of somehow connecting his computer to his TV. I read u can do it with an S Video lead...Has anyone done this? Would resolution be too shitty? Any suggestions? Thoughts?

Cheerzes

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:33 am

used to plug laptop in telly with s video, resolution is a bit tiny for reading web.. appletv does youtube vids

Post by **system** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:20 am

as a rule of thumb: the resolution on the tv screen will be as good as the output of the graphics card on the computer connected to it.

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:21 am

system wrote:as a rule of thumb: the resolution on the tv screen will be as good as the output of the graphics card on the computer connected to it.

if he has a standard def CRT telly then the best res it will support is 800x 600 NTSC, otherwise its 768 x 576 with PAL, which is pretty tiny for reading web and stuff, if he has widescreen telly you can up this to 1024 x576 PAL for widescreen, cant remember NTSC for that

if he has lcd or plasma telly then it should support better resolutions depending on its spec

nic · Post by **nic** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:25 am

i thought system would know this

cha_chaos · Post by **cha_chaos** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:29 am

get a wii, then he has a consol as well! it uses Opera and is quite handy

Mellogs · Post by **Mellogs** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:40 am

Wii or STFU

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:41 am

project the computer onto the living room wall or screen where he can sit on the couch with his computer and watch comfortably

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:49 am

universal sea wrote:project the computer onto the living room wall or screen where he can sit on the couch with his computer and watch comfortably

Expensive solution homeboy

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:55 am

Cubist wrote:Has anyone done this? Basically, it's my old mans birthday, he loves watching utube, but crouches infront of the computer. I was thinking of somehow connecting his computer to his TV. I read u can do it with an S Video lead...Has anyone done this? Would resolution be too shitty? Any suggestions? Thoughts?

Cheerzes

yeah my boy has done it, sits on the couch with the keyboard and plays away on 53inch screen

will find out how he did it and report back.

Post by **huge** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:03 am

turn the middle side topwise

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:06 am

here ya go (hope this makes sense) -

relies on Graphics card > you a need TV out on video/graphics card

join the tv to computer with coax cable

set up through Graphics car > set to dual monitors and then do some other stuff which he can't remember off the top of his head.

Post by **huge** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:43 pm

Lizkins wrote:join the tv to computer with coax cable

lol not quite.

eden u have a couple of options. an s-video port for the best results (bar HDMI output or VGA in on your TV, which is possible if you have a new LCD/Plasma telly) or a normal RCA plug. which most tv's come with, at least an RCA plug.

S-Video Female Jack & RCA Composite Video Female Jack Yellow

you will find that not that many on board video cards have s-video on the motherboard (again totally can happen)

so get an s-video cable if you have s-video or just a normal yellow RCA lead if you dont.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:18 pm

huge wrote:
Lizkins wrote:join the tv to computer with coax cable
lol not quite.

eden u have a couple of options. an s-video port for the best results (bar HDMI output or VGA in on your TV, which is possible if you have a new LCD/Plasma telly) or a normal RCA plug. which most tv's come with, at least an RCA plug.

S-Video Female Jack & RCA Composite Video Female Jack Yellow

you will find that not that many on board video cards have s-video on the motherboard (again totally can happen)

so get an s-video cable if you have s-video or just a normal yellow RCA lead if you dont.

claps hands for Hugh, wish i could be you

Post by **system** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:26 pm

spiral wrote:
system wrote:as a rule of thumb: the resolution on the tv screen will be as good as the output of the graphics card on the computer connected to it.
if he has a standard def CRT telly then the best res it will support is 800x 600 NTSC, otherwise its 768 x 576 with PAL, which is pretty tiny for reading web and stuff, if he has widescreen telly you can up this to 1024 x576 PAL for widescreen, cant remember NTSC for that

if he has lcd or plasma telly then it should support better resolutions depending on its spec

standard definition televisions can have support for higher resolution - Hz as well as pixel count, which was kind of my point.

cha_chaos wrote:get a wii, then he has a consol as well! it uses Opera and is quite handy

opera isn't free though.

Cubist · Post by **Cubist** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:42 pm

Yo. Thanks for the replies peeps. Appretiated. I'm pretty sure his TV is plasma. He just got a new one. What are the options for plasma? And can anyone recommend a graphics card. I think I'll need to get a new one for his comp.

Ta.

Cubist · Post by **Cubist** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:54 pm

OK. I just been chatting to the brains trust. VGA lead from computer to TV. Too easy. Obviously, I aint too computer savvy. Thanks again people.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:58 pm

Yup. I put my laptop through my housemate's new LCD TV with a VGA lead. Fun times were had.

system wrote:standard definition televisions can have support for higher resolution

Let me show you.

Post by **breaksRbest** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:02 pm

my laptop has S Video Out and my TV has S Video in, it's fine for watching movies etc but you can't really read the text on the screen if you're looking at the web

my TV's not a plasma or lcd tho'

Stray · Post by **Stray** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:09 pm

Kind of relevant..

Google plans to use the old analogue tv signal in the states once everything is switched to digital.
Something that can be replicated here after 2013.
Much much faster than current broadband.

Melbourne Beats

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