All that said, I'm not sure how beneficial it would be to use a monitor as a<br>TV. I'm not quite ready to buy an HDTV set, so I've only been paying very<br>casual attention to standards and prices. My impression is that computer
<br>monitors of a given size are about as expensive as HDTVs of the same size. I<br>have no idea if there'd be any benefit in terms of the connector types or<br>video card support.<br><br>Certainly, it would make less sense to buy a new computer monitor if the goal is to make an HDTV, but spending $0 to use an existing monitor as an HDTV may appeal to some. A 21" CRT monitor would make an excellent monitor for a video game console system in a small room. Those looking at buying a PS3 or an xbox360 (or to a lesser extent, a Nintendo Wii) may be interested in spending $100 on an HDTV frame grabber with component inputs and connecting it to an old monitor rather than spending $1000 on a new TV. Every CRT monitor I've ever owned would have little trouble hitting HDTV resolutions.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 16, 2007 1:04 PM, David Brodbeck <<a href="mailto:gull@gull.us">gull@gull.us</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Rod Smith wrote:<br>> In principle, you could exit from<br>> MythTV and use tvtime or some such to do the job, but that's a bit<br>> of a<br>> nuisance. (Or could the MythTV menus be customized to launch such a
<br>> program<br>> from a menu item?)<br><br></div>There's a way to customize the LiveTV option to launch something like<br>tvtime instead. I can't remember how to do it, though; I've never<br>been that interested, since it would mean losing the ability to pause
<br>live TV.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>><br>> All that said, I'm not sure how beneficial it would be to use a<br>> monitor as a<br>> TV. I'm not quite ready to buy an HDTV set, so I've only been<br>
> paying very<br>> casual attention to standards and prices. My impression is that<br>> computer<br>> monitors of a given size are about as expensive as HDTVs of the<br>> same size.<br><br></div>Also, larger wide-screen computer monitors often include composite
<br>and SVIDEO inputs. I have a Dell LCD monitor sitting on my desk that<br>has DVI, VGA, composite, and SVIDEO built in.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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