Run PC threw HDTV

How would I know if my HDTV will work with my computer? Or vice versa?

What are things to look for to have the computer screen be the HDTV?

Any other considerations to know? Things to look for?

Thanks,
Robert

 

RTFM! That is, look in your TV owner's manual. If it supports a computer input, it will tell you. This generally means the TV must have a DVI, HDMI, or D-Sub input connector, and the TV's menu system will allow you to select that input source.

I don't know what you mean by vice versa.

 

How would I know if the graphic card would work? RT*M? lol, it's an early agp card, nvidia geforce4 mx4000 128mb, suppose the card is to ancient?

 

Yes! What a concept, huh? And surprise, it applies to your graphics card too.

If your TV supports PC input, the manual will tell you which connector to use. Your card will have one or more of the connectors I mentioned - or considering its age, if it supports "TV out" it might have an S-Video output. Whatever your card has, your TV must have one too. If your card only has D-Sub (the old standard "VGA" connector) you may be out of luck if your TV only supports digital inputs, as D-Sub is analog.

 

Beat by 1 minute!

Note that SCART is not available in North America, and perhaps other parts of the world.

 

ok,

went to a quad core amd phenom 2.x ghz, modest 2 gb ram... then XFX Radeon HD 5670 Video Card - 1024MB DDR5, PCI-Express 2.1, CrossFireX, DVI, Dipslay Port, HDMI

I think i can find one high quality, high def port to use the thing works great! all this for around 400...us dollars chaps

 

Glad you got it going. Thanks for the followup.