I am a tech novice so have what probably is a simple question. I am looking to conserve space in an office nook in my home. The small room needs to multi-function as den and extra TV lounge space. The room is served as the remote TV location on my Dish dual tuner. Would it be possible (or convenient) to have my 20" HD TV also function as the monitor for my desktop computer? Possible? Impossible? Thanks!
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Use TV as computer monitor?
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This is most likely quite easy. Almost all HDTV's have a DVI input. Your computer either has a VGA or DVI output for the monitor. If it's VGA it is most likely a blue 15-pin connector. If it's DVI it is most likely a white ? pin connector with a cross at one end. You can just plug in the DVI if you have it, or you have two choices if you have VGA. 1) buy a new video card with DVI or 2) buy a VGA to DVI conversion cable (probably cheaper). Hope this makes sense.
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My HD TV has a PC video/audio input and works fine with a one year old emachines computer
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My PC has two 24" widescreen Dell monitors and it's quite special ... you can watch a movie on one and work on the other or have a number of different windows at work, dragging one from one monitor to another.
My sales staff have video presentations and usually take their laptops to make one-on-one presentations. Last week, one had to hook his laptop up to a 56" widescreen TV with surround sound speakers for a boardroom presentation and said the video looked terrific - just like a movie theatre. In the process, his laptop screen was on the big TV but the laptop screen went blank - so for setup it was just like having a huge monitor on his laptop and the presentation was seen by all 15 people around the boardroom. I can imagine video games would be outstanding.
Brian
My sales staff have video presentations and usually take their laptops to make one-on-one presentations. Last week, one had to hook his laptop up to a 56" widescreen TV with surround sound speakers for a boardroom presentation and said the video looked terrific - just like a movie theatre. In the process, his laptop screen was on the big TV but the laptop screen went blank - so for setup it was just like having a huge monitor on his laptop and the presentation was seen by all 15 people around the boardroom. I can imagine video games would be outstanding.
Brian
I use my 52 inch flat screen as my puter monitor. I have Mac G5 hooked up to it using one of the hdmi ports on the back of tv. I also have optical sound hooked up from mac to amp that powers the surround sound for the tv system. Works great.
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I have a PC hooked up to my whole home audio and I have the video hooked into my plasma in the great room. It works great but burn in can be an issue
if you use static information on the screen.
if you use static information on the screen.