Connecting my pc to a 5 year old crt

[jerry53]

Well folks this year my samsung dreams got squashed when my father refused to buy me a samsung c550 this diwali as heart broken as i am ,I am going to get back at my Dad by taking our home tv in madurai and shifting it to chennai:licklips:.I was thinking of buying the asus Oi play for playing movies in it but then a small idea stuck my mind.i have a pc at chennai a quadcore with a 9600gt and im thinking of hooking it up with my tv.I have a svideo to component convereter while my tv has a component input.It is not all as easy as it seems I dont know what resolution my tv works on it is a discontinued model of samsung plano 29 inch IF any knows the model name please elaborate and what are all the settings that i should lock in place before trying this out.For the audio im thinking of getting this
nextworld.in: Buy Bandridge 3.5mm Stereo Male to 2 x RCA Female Adapter [AP342] in India

The things i would like to know from my fellow members is this what is the model of the telly i am talking about?
what is the maximum resolution supported by it?
and also how do crts match up in game performance unline the lcd's?
and also if anyone has tried this setup and failed due to some reasons please elaborate on that ?
Any help would be greately appreciated:clapping:

 

[spirovious]

Hi,I have done that in past with my 7300.My TV cld accept 1024 resolution too(I wonder how)
You can start with low resolution(320)&then step up to 800,if TV blinks,shut it down & change the resolution(lower)I have written similar here-

http://www.hifivision.com/television/5123-now-play-hd-1080p-movies-crt.html

 

[viper08]

HD movies on CRT looks pretty good and acceptable. I have connected it to Laptop and watched many HD content without feeling real need of any upgardes to display apart from screen size. Also the depathness and contrast on CRT is pretty awesome. So I can easily sacrifice the 1080p lines for a 21" size. I am not sure about resolution it supports but my laptop is on 1024 V lines.

Not sure about the converter you are talking, In your case S-video needs to split 3 RGB which I dont think is pretty simple and S -video is little below than componenet for picture quality. If it didnt work, get a simple s-video to RCA composite jack for ~200 bucks and connect it.

 

[jerry53]

Hi,I have done that in past with my 7300.My TV cld accept 1024 resolution too(I wonder how)
You can start with low resolution(320)&then step up to 800,if TV blinks,shut it down & change the resolution(lower)I have written similar here-

http://www.hifivision.com/television/5123-now-play-hd-1080p-movies-crt.html

how about games man and how do they stack up any special settings that i need to configure???BTW thanks for answering man:clapping:

 

[jerry53]

HD movies on CRT looks pretty good and acceptable. I have connected it to Laptop and watched many HD content without feeling real need of any upgardes to display apart from screen size. Also the depathness and contrast on CRT is pretty awesome. So I can easily sacrifice the 1080p lines for a 21" size. I am not sure about resolution it supports but my laptop is on 1024 V lines.

Not sure about the converter you are talking, In your case S-video needs to split 3 RGB which I dont think is pretty simple and S -video is little below than componenet for picture quality. If it didnt work, get a simple s-video to RCA composite jack for ~200 bucks and connect it.

viper i have a svideo to a rgb converter but i have a little trouble with my component port on my crt you mentioned a s video to rca display cable can you please guide me where you can get this in chennai.please dont say ritchie street as i know i can get it there but there is a huge parking problem in ritchie street while buying my laptop my car was towed can you be a little specific where in ritchie street if you are a local in chennai.too much specifics huh you must hate me for this and also thanks for yourreply man it meant a lot

 

[spirovious]

how about games man and how do they stack up any special settings that i need to configure???BTW thanks for answering man:clapping:

I config TV 1st & then increased resolution of PC monitor.nvidia can set seperate resolution for either of monitor at same time.
In short I can play games on my PC monitor & can watch movie on CRT at the same time.

 

[jerry53]

I config TV 1st & then increased resolution of PC monitor.nvidia can set seperate resolution for either of monitor at same time.
In short I can play games on my PC monitor & can watch movie on CRT at the same time.

what i Meant was that as tvs have a lower resolution can i play games well in this so that i can use all the graphical quality to play games and how good do they look in games?
I want to use the crt as my primary gaming screen as my graphics card can play lower resolutions well and if it plays well in a 29 inch crt i dont have to update my pc in a long time:yahoo:

 

[spirovious]

Game with low res CRT is not good idea.Most of newer games will not support low resolution & only old one can be.So if you update monitor(seperate)for games,your GC will do the rest.

 

[shrjun]

This is a view of the ? S-video output on my Compaq Presario M2000 laptop(http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/hardware/notebooks/0,39001743,39088002p,00.htm).I want to connect this to a 25" CRT with both composite and component inputs.
Currently,I burn 720p video files to DVD using convertxtodvd 4 and play them through a sony DVDp connected to the tv via component-in.
1. What cable do I ask for to connect the laptop to the TV ?
2. Will the video quality via this connection be better than/equal to my current setup? Video transcoding on my laptop using convertxtodvd is painfully slow!
3. Do i need some sort of connector box between the laptop and the TV ?

 

[spirovious]

This is 7 pin S vid socket which can also outpu componet video upto 720p with usual S video-
S-Video - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You can connect it to CRT with S video to composite cable-
"S-Video to RCA"
Even this cable to get component out-
7-PIN HDTV Output Cable

 

[shredder]

how about games man and how do they stack up any special settings that i need to configure???BTW thanks for answering man:clapping:

Gaming on a CRT TV, no matter how advanced the game graphics, will be similar to PS2. So if you were satisfied with PS2 graphics then you will be happy with CRT gaming.

 

[shrjun]

I got the 7 pin S-video to composite (3 RCA) cable and connected the same to my laptop/CRT.
However , no video or audio output is seen on the TV!:sad:
I used VLC media player and tried various resolutions of my laptop monitor.

Any ideas please ?
I cannot seem to find resolution settings on the TV.

 

[spirovious]

However , no video or audio output is seen on the TV!:sad:
I used VLC media player and tried various resolutions of my laptop monitor.
I cannot seem to find resolution settings on the TV.

Did you switch on S video/HDTV option?
You have to set as multi/Dual monitor from graphic driver,set HDTV as 720p & it should work.

 

[shrjun]

Did you switch on S video/HDTV option?
You have to set as multi/Dual monitor from graphic driver,set HDTV as 720p & it should work.

Would you tell me how to do this on a windows xp machine ? Thanx.

 

[spirovious]

Would you tell me how to do this on a windows xp machine ? Thanx.

Your Lapy has intel graphics-
Compaq Presario M2000 series (Pentium M Processor 715 1.5GHz, 256MB RAM) Specs - Notebooks - CNET Asia

Well I have used nvidia & ATI graphics & not tried intel for video out.
You have to open control panal & check for any option to configure CRT.
You can follow this & may it work-
Graphics — TV-out troubleshooting