What type of TV tuner to take for LCD TV?
LCD TV specifications:
22" Color TFT LCD
Aspect Ratio 16:10
Native Resolution 1680 X 1050
Typical 300cd/m2 Brightness
Typical 1000:1 Contrast Ratio
170° Horizontal , 160° Vertical Viewing Angle
5ms Response Time
NICAM Stereo
100 pages Fastext
1 Tuner/ 2D Comb Filter
Audio Output: 2.5W + 2.5W
HDMI Input
Composite (RCA)/ Component YPbPr
Headphone Jack (Analog Audio Out)
PC Audio In
RF (Antenna) Input/ Scart/ VGA Input
Answers: If you can pocket your computer down to 640x480, you can try connecting it to your TV. Many laptops actually include an "s-video" out for exactly this purpose. Depending on your laptop it may be treated as a mirror of your laptop display, or as a second monitor, or you may know how to switch between them. You will quickly see that the talent of the display is, likely, severely very poor.
If S-video is not an odds, there are converter boxes available from places close to Radio Shack that will take a standard VGA connector and turn it into a composite video signal that can be plugged into a TV beside a composite input. In general this results surrounded by roughly the same poor power computer display.
Surprisingly, in both of those cases, video playback can in actuality look quite honest. What I mean is that if you're using your TV as a computer monitor and to do typical things resembling reading email or surfing the web, you'll be relatively disappointed. However if you are playing back a video - enunciate playing a DVD in your computer and watching it on the monitor - it seem to be quite proper. My theory is that most DVDs and other video are targeted at exactly the TV's resolution, and that, plus the fact that for video we're "used to" that resolution, our expectations for that type of display are simply met.
Oh, and as to using it as a second monitor - to mirror what's going on on your primary computer blind: many laptops support using both the internal LCD blind and the VGA (or S-Video) output at the same time, so you may know how to simply hook it up. If you don't have that leeway, you'll need to draw from a splitter of some sort that will allow you to take your computer's monitor output and distribute it to two different devices: your regular computer screen, and a VGA converter box as I described above. Alternately you could purchase a video card that supports TV-out, or supports dual screen.
Now, there is liberation on the horizon, but it'll require a new TV. Newer TV's are going digital, and plentiful do, in reality, have digital (DVI) input - above all those that are High Definition (HD) ready. In these cases you in reality stand a chance of man able to connect your computer directly to the TV. The TV may not support like peas in a pod higher resolutions that your computer monitor might, but they'll almost really support resolutions that are much more acceptable for computer usage.
If you are going to procure cable, then adjectives you need is their Digital cable box, because it have the necessary tuner within it, to give you the Digital picture you stipulation, provided that TV is Digital. If it's HD, then you'll stipulation the HD/Digital cable box.
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