Re: TV as second monitor - how-to

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It's cheaper to buy a videocard that supports S-video out. Any new
card has it, even old ones for less than $40. I'm guessing your
videocard is integrated into the motherboard, so it doesn't have TV-out
included. I recommend compgeeks.com or newegg.com to purchase one.
First, make sure that your Dell can support AGP videocards, since those
are the most popular. Otherwise, you would have to buy a PCI videocard
(not PCI-E) which is a little more expensive.

The second monitor/TV-Out properties would be in your Windows display
settings after you install the videocard drivers.


Bill W wrote:
I think this is more of an XP question than an MSN Messenger question.

My daughter and I use MSN Messenger video conferencing so we can see our
granddaughter and she can see us. We have been doing this for over a year
and everything does exactly what we want. Even though my daughter has an
excellent 20" monitor, she would like to display the conferencing screens on
her much larger television so my granddaughter can watch from any point in
the room.

Can anyone suggest a relatively inexpensive device that will allow us to
cable a TV into a PC as a second monitor? The TV only has to
display/duplicate what's on the main PC monitor - it doesn't have to
function separately. It would be ideal if the interface accepted
inexpensive cabling between the PC and TV such as S-video or composite
video. The TV is about 20' from the PC and in the same room, so cabling
would be easy. She has a pretty standard 2+ghz Dell computer running XP.
Thanks for your help.

.

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