poor TV out quality (1 Viewer)

Mr T

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January 26, 2006
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Hi,

I am thinking of turning my existing PC into a HTPC. Its spec is
Athlon 64 3200+
MSI RS480 mobo
1Gb RAM
X600 pro
no TV card at present

As a test to see what Divx playback was like on my TV i connected the pc up using the svideo connection. The picture quality was really bad, much worse than my modded xbox playing the same divx's. It also would not display in 16:9 widescreen, in fact WinXP wouldn't even let me set my resolution to anything other than the standard 4:3 resolutions (640x480, 800x600 etc)

My TV is a panasonic tx32pl10 (a 32inch widescreen CRT) and has a great picture when playing DVD's etc from 'normal' consumer electronics devices.

Is TV out always this bad from a PC to a non HDTV? Its a bit of a show stopper as i cant watch TV with a picture that bad.

Mr T
 

ammm

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January 3, 2005
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Set a lower resolution (720x576 if you have a pal crt for example) and enable theater mode in ati driver!!!
This worked for me even if I've good a really poor 9200....
 

Mr T

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January 26, 2006
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ammm said:
Set a lower resolution (720x576 if you have a pal crt for example) and enable theater mode in ati driver!!!
This worked for me even if I've good a really poor 9200....

problem is is cant set it to that resulution as its not an option
 

ammm

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January 3, 2005
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uhm strange, do you have both monitor and crt?!?
try to unplug the monitor or set the same resolution to both
 

Mr T

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January 26, 2006
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ammm said:
uhm strange, do you have both monitor and crt?!?
try to unplug the monitor or set the same resolution to both

i just had the TV plugged in. Should it know that its a TV and not a monitor?
 

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