Re: What TV type to by with what connection

From: Michael Creasy [MS] (mcreasy_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:11:50 -0800

TV's aren't designed to display the output from a PC in most cases, that
said the better quality connection you use the better the image

Worst
 - Composite (this is what you're currently using)
- S-Video
- Component (three cables - red, green & blue)
- DVI (single cable, found on most new HDTVs)
Best

On a regular TV the picture in computer terms is 640x480 with a 60Hz
interlaced refresh rate (that means that although the display is updated 60
times a second, only half the lines are used at once, i.e. you get half the
picture and then the other half - that's the flicker you seen on non HDTVs).

The Media Center UI is designed to look better than the Windows desktop on a
PC. I have a system at home connected via S-video to a 46" display and
while the desktop doesn't look very good, the Media Center UI looks fine.
However my other system connected via DVI looks far superior. 

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"TimothyM" <juniorjr62@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:372EDE35-5E4B-4915-923A-2431BC3ACE64@microsoft.com...
> I hae just purchased the Sony Vaio desktop MCE. I'm totally lost on why
connected via the S-Video out but using the conversion plug to just the
yellow line in the to the TV my Windows Desktop is poor in picture quality.
No I don't have a HDTV.
>
> Now I'm looking to buy a new WideScreen HDTV. I don't want Plasma. Can
anyone explain to me the limiting factors in why my TV display won't display
a computer desktop as sharp? Do I need a HDTV? Does S-Video (a true
connection to both ends via a proper cable) transmit better or worse than a
TV that could use the DVI? Please I'm not a TV rocket scientist but I'm
quite computer literate. Any and all help is appreciated and feel free to
email me.

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