hooking up high def tv to cmputer as a monitor?

Spike Spiegel

Spike Spiegel

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Hey guys,

Just for kicks I was trying to hook up my tv as a monitor for one of my computers. What resolution should I be using? The TV I was doing this with is an older high def toshiba read projection that goes to 1080i only. I can get a picture in certain resoluitons, but sometimes the top goes up and comes out from the bottom of the picture, giving a split pic on screen. Is there a resolution used for 1080i. I remember having some software on my computer long ago that had resolutions for hooking up to TVs... forget what that was called.

Anyone? Hooking this up with DVI, and using XP btw... thanks.
 
aluisi

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Spike Spiegel said:
Hey guys,

Just for kicks I was trying to hook up my tv as a monitor for one of my computers. What resolution should I be using? The TV I was doing this with is an older high def toshiba read projection that goes to 1080i only. I can get a picture in certain resoluitons, but sometimes the top goes up and comes out from the bottom of the picture, giving a split pic on screen. Is there a resolution used for 1080i. I remember having some software on my computer long ago that had resolutions for hooking up to TVs... forget what that was called.

Anyone? Hooking this up with DVI, and using XP btw... thanks.
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I believe that 1080i is a max resolution of 1,920x1,080 but on older HD tv's 1080i is 1,366x768. So i would set it to 1,366x768 and see if the picture fills the screen
 
Spike Spiegel

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Problem is, the higher resolution version fills the screen nice... and the picture is really sharp. HOWEVER, the top and bottom of the screen is never what it's supposed to be, and totally random. I can switch the video signal to one of the ohter inputs, then put it back, and then the top of the screen will end up being somewhere else instead. weird....
 
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what type of connection does it have? DVI? My VGA input on my HDTV will let me set my computer to 1280x720.
 
JuliusCaesar

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If it is a 1080i signal it shouldn't let you set it at anything near 1,920x1,080 because a PC dosen't send out a interlaced signal. If it was a 1080p screen that would be a different story, which means it can handle 1920x1080 at 60 frames a second. A 1080i screen should only allow you to handle 1920x1080 at 30 frames per second.
 
Spike Spiegel

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JuliusCaesar said:
If it is a 1080i signal it shouldn't let you set it at anything near 1,920x1,080 because a PC dosen't send out a interlaced signal. If it was a 1080p screen that would be a different story, which means it can handle 1920x1080 at 60 frames a second. A 1080i screen should only allow you to handle 1920x1080 at 30 frames per second.
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All I know is it's on there, but the top and bottom are NOT at the top an bottom, but meet in random places.... middle, mostly. Looks good and crips, but... damn, what was the name of the program? Hmm.
 
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