PC through my TV

Hi all,

Is this possible? If so, how do I do it? What hardware / software do I need?

Cheers,
Nick

You referring to just using your TV as a secondary monitor?
If so then you need a graphics card with TV-Out, a piece of cable and your set.

Ive run my PC through my TV, not worth it unless your TV is true flat, the curved screens make a mess of the picture :(

It runs native at 640x480 on my 21" 4:3 sony through S-video, it makes for a dramatic effect on games as the TV seems to put out colours and movements in a nice way :), unfortunately the low resolution means you cant read some things on the screen.

Worth a try, i'd only use it for racing games tbh, and i have a PS2 for that so i dont use TV-out at all now

My card is a GeForce4 Ti4800SE. I'm at work at the moment so can't check. I think I've got a cable in the box.

What socket will it connect to on my TV? SCART? Or S-video or similar?

The purpose is I want to record some Dj'in mixes, and I dont want to lug about my 17" CRT etc, when I can just pick up my shuttle and carry it through to the next room :-)

The TV card wont record sound :( You'll have to use the Line-in for that (Im almost sure of that, better have someone else on here double check). Do you need to record both video and music of the mix? :confused:

Also, there are quite a few portable Hard Drive MP3 players out there that will record via line-in straight to MP3. They are small and more convenient and you can use it for music too :p, but it would mean another expense

you will have a TV out on your card. Just plug it in to whatever input is available on your TV. If you have composite jack on the TV this would be ideal however a SCART will do fine. All of the inputs on a TV are interchangable using adapters i.e if you only have a scart input on the TV and the output of the geforce is svideo you can get an adapter.

composite is a 'phono' type jack, svideo is a sleaved jack with 4 pins. you know what a scart is

sound will definatly NOT go though the video card to the TV, you will need to plug the output from your sound card into the TVs scart / 'phono' AV socket.

you best solution would be a euro SCART cable with 3 phono plugs, one for left audio, one for right audio, and one for video. plug your soundcard into the two audio plugs using a 3.5mm stereo to left/right phono adapter. Plug the video output into the video cable using whatever adapter you need from you video card (likely to be svideo).

hope this is clear :)

just read your post agian - i assume you already know how to record sound :) yeah as i said with the video just plug into any hole that you have on your TV all inputs are adaptable

Yeah I've got a line-in cable from my mixer.

Anyone got an links to said devices? I believe theres only SCARt on my crappy TV in my room...

The TV is to basically stop me from lugging my CRT around from room to room...