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| Thread ID: 59328 | 2005-06-28 20:18:00 | Stand alone tv tuner opinions plz! | Mcpisik (4924) | Press F1 |
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| 367768 | 2005-06-28 20:18:00 | Hi there, I'm looking at putting my 17in viewsonic lcd monitor in my bedroom, and perhaps purchasing one of these stand alone tv tuners Dynalink Plug & Go (www.dynalink.com.au) to make it my tv only. It mentions video output of 640x480 @ 60Hz in the specs sheet. Would this mean my nice display would be pretty sad running this? Mostly I want to know if it's best to buy an lcd tv (better picture?), or to get the seperate tuner for my monitor (allowing me to upgrade my pc monitor to 19in. just for fun!) Thanks in advance for helping!!! :) |
Mcpisik (4924) | ||
| 367769 | 2005-06-28 23:11:00 | I would try a vcr to start with if you have one laying around, see what that looks like, but then that would defeat the purpose of a slim lcd | plod (107) | ||
| 367770 | 2005-06-29 03:45:00 | 640x480 is less than PAL resolution, it wouldnt look all too great to be honest, but some might deem it 'acceptable' | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 367771 | 2005-06-29 05:52:00 | PC monitor resolutions are about pixel resolution. So a PC screen may have a resolution of 800 x 600 which means 800 pixels (dots) going across horizontaly and 600 pixels going down vertically. TV's engineers, however, only speak about TV resolutions in terms of the number of lines going across not down! All TV's have exactly the same amount of lines going down, but not all TV's have the same amount of decernable dots going across. PAL is the dominant format in the World for analog television broadcasting and video display and is based on a 625 line, 50 field/25 frames a second, 50HZ system. The signal is interlaced, like NTSC into two fields, composed of 312 lines each. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 367772 | 2005-06-29 07:54:00 | PC monitor resolutions are about pixel resolution. So a PC screen may have a resolution of 800 x 600 which means 800 pixels (dots) going across horizontaly and 600 pixels going down vertically. TV's engineers, however, only speak about TV resolutions in terms of the number of lines going across not down! All TV's have exactly the same amount of lines going down, but not all TV's have the same amount of decernable dots going across. PAL is the dominant format in the World for analog television broadcasting and video display and is based on a 625 line, 50 field/25 frames a second, 50HZ system. The signal is interlaced, like NTSC into two fields, composed of 312 lines each. Ok...cheers... What do you mean by this exactly? Are you saying that they are completely different products, or just that I should compare them in another way? I just want to find out if my current lcd monitor would maka good tv if plugged into a tuner...or if a lcd tv would beat it Thanks... |
Mcpisik (4924) | ||
| 367773 | 2005-06-29 07:55:00 | I would try a vcr to start with if you have one laying around, see what that looks like, but then that would defeat the purpose of a slim lcd Nice one. Didn't think of doing that. I'll try it soon. :-) |
Mcpisik (4924) | ||
| 367774 | 2005-07-03 22:32:00 | In the spec sheet I read from your link, the Maximum Resolution is 1024 x 768 @ 60Hz. Which will be fine. |
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