Newbie TV -Out Question

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My first experience with a TV-Out video card, so please excuse the dumb
questions. I recently got a Compaq laptop with a Mobility Radeon 7500 video
board. It runs the 14" LCD laptop display @ 1024 X 768 with beautiful
clarity and color. When I attempt to use the svhs video-out to connect to a
TV, the picture is dreadful. I have tried this on both 19" and 27" sets,
with the same terrible results. My questions:

1. Am I doing something wrong?
2. Is this poor performance related to this particular video card or is
this typical of video-out performance in general?

Before this experience, I was planning to buy a new video board for my
desktop PC with video-out, for the purpose of recording from DVD to VHS
(filtering out Macrovision), but if this is what I can expect, it hardly
seems worth it.

Thanks for any insight or information on this problem.
 
The output to a TV is dreadful, especially if you are comparing it to your
laptop. Remember the TV can't even do a 800x600 resolution. In my opinion,
the only thing that looks good on TV is games. Text is not legible for stuff
like spreadsheets and word processing.

The PC DVD playing redirected to the TV should look as good as a home DVD
player on that TV.

bye, Rick
 
PC TV out is an 'acquired taste' really. The clarity will never come close
to a monitor as standard TVs were never designed to have such fine
resolution. Short of spending up on a HDTV or something, thats what you
get.
 
Chimera said:
PC TV out is an 'acquired taste' really. The clarity will never come close
to a monitor as standard TVs were never designed to have such fine
resolution. Short of spending up on a HDTV or something, thats what you
get.
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A TV will never do for a primary display, but TV out does come in handy for
capturing games or dubbing movies to a VCR. I actually enjoy recording
sessions of NASCAR 2003 and watching them on the big screen in another room,
for example. It's also great for watching DVDs on a bigger screen. But it's
pretty miserable for web browsing or e-mail because of the poor resolution
and fuzzy text.
 
Skid said:
A TV will never do for a primary display, but TV out does come in handy for
capturing games or dubbing movies to a VCR. I actually enjoy recording
sessions of NASCAR 2003 and watching them on the big screen in another room,
for example. It's also great for watching DVDs on a bigger screen. But it's
pretty miserable for web browsing or e-mail because of the poor resolution
and fuzzy text.
Click to expand...


Thanks to all for educating me.
 
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