Just wonderin'...

[bobrap]

how those who don't use a MVP hook up to their tv. I tried going from my video card s-video out to the tv and the picture is dog do-do. The computer desktop is almost unreadable. I have ATI Radeon 9800 Pro and a 32" Sony (regular tv). Any thoughts and/or suggestions? TIA

[TheBosZ]

I run my computer to my tv through the TV-Out built into my motherboard (Chaintech 7NIF2, Socket A). It's S-Video to my TV's S-Video input. The windows desktop (especially fonts) look quite terrible, but GB-PVR itself is really great. I don't use the PVR to do anything other than watch TV (no surfing, no games) that I don't mind it at all.

[Torque]

I used S-video for quite a while. Yes, the desktop looks like crap, but GBPVR looked pretty good and the TV quality wasn't bad either. I've made the switch to DVI input and the desktop still isn't that great but interface and TV quality is, in my opinion, damn good. I'm very happy with it.

[ricklous]

Im using composite via TV-out on the motherboard to a similar sized widescreen regular TV

Svideo gives black and white. grr.

Desktop is unuseable, cant read any text. i have to remote into the machine to do anything desktop based.

GBPVR, especially with the ContourHC skin, looks very good though, thanks to torque! no trouble using/reading it from across the room.

TV quality isnt quite there but i think im degrading the signal somewhat with cheap cables from the STB. DVD is bang-on.

A bit of fine tuning with contrast/saturation helped a lot with TV quality.

[bobrap]

Thanks for the replies. The main problem I see, other than the desktop, is a flickering or kinda jumpy video. Not choppy playback, just not real smooth. I agree, the contour skin skin looks great. Still undecided if I want a direct connect or go back to the MVP.

[dazzyb2k3]

I'm using svideo to SCART from my FX5200 to the TV. The picture quality was quite poor until I got a really high quality cable and it made such a huge difference (I would never have believed the difference a cable could make!). It now looks really crisp, even on my old telly.

Overall I'm very happy with this and have never skimped on cables since

[wtg]

Standard definition TV's aren't designed for displaying the kind of resolution a computer desktop requires. SDTV only supports up to 480 vertical scan lines (VGA) and a lot of TVs don't even support that many. I've used both NVidia and ATI cards and while the output was fine for watching videos or for using the gbpvr menus, using the TV as a monitor for surfing or doing maintenance on the PC isn't reasonable.

I just switched to an HDTV this last weekend and that's a different story entirely. Using DVI output it makes for a very usable monitor running at 1920x1080.

[stefan]

I use S-video to scart. TV-quality is so-so. I can't get it to fill the screen entirely (it's due to my crappy on board graphics), but it's watchable. Maintenance is doable (I think I've set my output to 800*640), but mainly because I already know what the texts are saying, or where to click =) If I don't know the text on before hand, I really have to strain my eyes to guess what it says =)

I just switched to an HDTV this last weekend and that's a different story entirely.

I'm not envious. I'm not.

[betlit]

standard vga-cable to a beamer

[mitcheloc]

Beamer? As in BMW?