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I have an HD ready TV near my pc. I'm considering buying an internal Blu-ray drive for my pc. What I want to know is what would i need to connect the HD ready TV with my PC so that it displays on there. Also, would it actually display in high definition? I heard somewhere that when you use a TV as a monitor, it has a lower resolution so i was wondering if this would be the case for this Blu-ray setup?
anyone?
graphics card with a HDMI port would do the job, with internal jumper for sound. will display at whatever your tv HD resolution is, 1080p if you got 'proper' HD
OP: With my Media Centre PC, I'm running an ATI 4550 DVI>HDMI feeding an LG 37" 1080p telly. Resolution on that TV us 1920x1080. That particular card (as do most of the later ATI ones) do audio over HDMI without any issues that I've come across. Previous telly before that was a Toshiba 32" HD ready panel with a resolution of 1366x768, which was slightly stroppy in getting a picture that wasn't over or underscanned without some tweaking.... more an issue with the Toshiba itself though, rather than the card.
You'd need to do some juggling with desktop DPI settings to get things comfortably usable at TV viewing distances IMHO (even more so to get spousal acceptance factor as I did). YMMV though.
All output is definitely in hi-def, as the PC's also got a Blu-ray drive that does a sterling job of playing discs at full resolution, with The Dark Knight and Wall-E looking particularly marvellous.