leetninja Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 I was wandering if you guys knew of any software for making the picture better while using your T.V. as a monitor. I am currently just running a video cable straight into my T.V. and the picture of my desktop that comes up the screen is horrible. Quote
Sparda Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 The picture is horrible because TV's aren't monitors (except HD TV's which are sort of stuck in the middle). All you can do is increase the font DPI to 120 to make it readable. Quote
leetninja Posted August 22, 2007 Author Posted August 22, 2007 I knew that T.V.'s did have a lot of graphic power...I was just wandering if there was any way to increase the picture quality at all. Thank you very much for your suggestion Sparda! Quote
leetninja Posted August 22, 2007 Author Posted August 22, 2007 Can you decrease the screen resolution on the computer to make the picture better on the T.V.? Quote
Sparda Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 You can't improve it short of making every object larger, which only will make it easier to see. Ever run WMC? Every thing is very chunky, which makes it usable on a CRT lo def TV. Quote
leetninja Posted August 22, 2007 Author Posted August 22, 2007 I haven't ever used it. Are there any alternative free programs to WMC. Quote
VaKo Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 Loads, both free, commercial, Linux and windows. Quote
leetninja Posted August 22, 2007 Author Posted August 22, 2007 Sorry for my stupidity, but I don't understand? Are there any Open-Source programs? Quote
leetninja Posted August 23, 2007 Author Posted August 23, 2007 Thank you very much..I ended up using Media Portal. Quote
VaKo Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 So did I, its actually quite nice if you have .5TB of "totally legal CC media" floating about on random NTFS disks. Quote
leetninja Posted August 23, 2007 Author Posted August 23, 2007 Haha! So how do you get the media on there....I thought that it was just a media viewer for files that you already have on your computer? Quote
VaKo Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Its just a full screen media player that runs on a regular install of windows. You can treat it exactly like you would any other windows application, and just import the media from the various locations on your HDD(s) into is library. I always tend to install the actuall OS on a smaller driver on its own so it was just a case of throwing more HD's full of media into the mix. You can also set it to start at login in full screen mode, then customize windows to match it (disable unnecessary stuff, setup auto-logins and so forth), which would work nicely as an appliance. New stuff was added via network shares mostly. Quote
leetninja Posted August 23, 2007 Author Posted August 23, 2007 ahhh...I see, so there is actually a media portal network for downloading media? Quote
VaKo Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Dunno, but you could easily whip something together using bittorrent, stage6 et al, rss and automatic library updates to get your online stuff, and it does TV and DVD's, so thats pretty much all your bases covered. Quote
leetninja Posted August 23, 2007 Author Posted August 23, 2007 Sweet...thanks for all of your help! Quote
gameking Posted September 1, 2007 Posted September 1, 2007 ya i have a 42 inch hooked up to my computer it makes it a lot better seeing things. Quote
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