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Hi,

aswell as the 19/20" widescreen monitor i also was a 32" or near that HD LCD TV which can be used as a PC monitor.

What you guys recommend?

cheers
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Posted: 2006-10-26 23:39:59
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http://www.dixons.co.uk/martp[....]957382&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null

Can that be used as a PC monitor? If it has a PCMCIA Slot does it mean it can be used?

thanks
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Posted: 2006-10-26 23:44:21
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no, a card slot is that slot that comes in laptops.
You need an analogue socket
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Posted: 2006-10-26 23:57:38
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That's right. But recently, TV's have been equipped with PCMCIA slots to allow you to use PCMCIA cable or satellite decoder cards instead of a set-top box. More on this here:

http://www.hdtvexpert.com/pages/cablecard.htm

As for using it as a monitor, it's looking like a no but I can't be 100% sure. The usual route is, as amnesia said, to use the A/V out socket of your graphics card to connect to the A/V in sockets on your TV, unless of course the TV has DVI or (rarely) VGA support. The specs say that this TV doesn't have FRONT A/V inputs but says nothing about whether there's any on the back

I would suspect not though. I'd keep looking if I were you


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[ This Message was edited by: Cycovision on 2006-10-26 23:11 ]
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Posted: 2006-10-27 00:06:52
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http://www.dixons.co.uk/martp[....]ku=439888&calling_page=Product

Do you no what kind of PC connection that has?

Also if a 32" Tv is used a monitor, will the desktop (or whatever is on thr computer take up the whole 32"?

thanks
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Posted: 2006-10-27 00:22:10
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my older model Samsung has every connection you can imagine, so I'd think that has a VGA port
Monitor port.


according to
http://www.play.com/Electroni[....]X_HD_Ready_LCD_TV/Product.html

it does
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[ This Message was edited by: amnesia on 2006-10-26 23:25 ]
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Posted: 2006-10-27 00:24:22
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http://www.samsung.com/uk/pro[....]2bxxeu.asp?page=Specifications

thats the official spec, no mention of VGA but has got monitor out and PC D-Sub. what are those?
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Posted: 2006-10-27 00:27:00
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oooh yeah! D-sub is the standard VGA style socket that I was talking about.

TVs do generally stretch and scale your PC's output so it's best to have a decent graphics card that can throw out various high resolution aspect ratios rather than just the normal 800*600, 1024*768, 1280*1024 etc.
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Posted: 2006-10-27 00:34:02
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the samsung wont stretch, it should be fine.
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Posted: 2006-10-27 00:55:21
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I use a 36" LG as a monitor for gaming. Its too big to be used for browsing or other common tasks though.
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Posted: 2006-10-27 02:55:24
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