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Vinny:
We have all sorts of video game generations here ... Nintendo, playstation and x box. My 11 YO got the xbox for Christmas last year and we refused to pay the money for the 360. He has it in his room and all his friends have that generation too so they go up there and play. Luckily we don't have anything on our family TV and we do have a home theater setup onto the main TV. We do have some little games that have stayed around it but all the gaming systems are in both my sons' bedrooms.
As far as the Hospital's IT dept. I'm a contracted employee there and the IT dept just became contracted. The problem they have with me is that I can troubleshoot and repair just about anything, that's my job. I have had problems in the past with them since I have responded to equipment that they deal with and troubleshoot, call and want them to respond immediately (We have 3 techs, IT has like 12). They come whenever and find out I was right and of course didn't bring the part. We asked them to give us a used floppy drive to get medical equipment up and running and they say they can't ... I can't believe there are no scavenger systems around.
I'm cheap when it comes to certain things and computers are one of them. In the past I've built my own, upgraded a dozen times and now I just prefer to buy. I have a Dell dimension 2400. It has a DVD burner that I used once but I can surf the net, write stuff and even stream videos ;) without any problems!
Bonibelle:
OK guys, thanks for this thread! ;) I need a new computer question answered and I know between the four of you, someone will be able to help me out.
I just got a Dell XPS 410... I added the dual Tv tuner card so that my husband could watch TV and record from the computer. I got a 24 inch DELL LCD flat screen ..Tonight we ran the cable ( I have Comcast...no cable box, just cable). I am definately not getting the picture quality from the cable as I am from a DVD or even video that I have imported from my digital camera. Any suggestions? I ran the cable through my surge protector first. Thinking that the surge protector was the problem, I bypassed it but it didn't seem to help. My son insists that we just have maxed out the splitters for the cable. (at this point we have split between 8 TV sets), is that possible? I also have a cable booster that the cable provider added.
Oh I connected my LCD to the computer with a VGA cable. I also have a DVI cable (I know- don't connect both), but why do you have a choice, is one better than the other?
I know that somehow this has to either be related to the cable or how the Tv card processes the cable signal since all other media is exceptional on this monitor...
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Vinny:
Boni,
Your son may be right! Video signals get weaker as they get split. It also has to do with the connections and the cable. If you ran RG-59 (old time cable) this might be the problem too. Try running RG-6, it has less signal drop and more bandwidth, I also think they make special RG-6 cable with very low loss. This also applies to the supply lead of the cable setup. You might even need to add a booster to the signal or maybe the splitter is bad or a combination of it all. Think of it as a chain of degrading -> 1% somewhere + 2% somewhere else + ... = eventually it is a really bad signal.
I have 1 televsion out of my 6 that gets snow on some channels - I attribute that to bad connections. I also have digital cable and I was having pixelizing on the box ... again, a bad connection. My opinion is not to run a video signal through the surge protector (I know you're not at this point), recheck all the connections/ wiring and if need be boost the signal.
Bonibelle:
So Vinny, I can boost this signal in addition to the booster that is in line from the cable company? I have a generic booster (no longer hooked up) but the cable guy added an industrial one when they ran new cable to my house about a year ago.
badval:
It could be a simple matter of resolution and how the ATi card is processing and calculating a signal meant to display at 480 lines of resolution. Your monitor has much more resolution than the broadcast signal delivers. Your equipment has to compensate for the difference in levels of resolution and aspect ratio. A lot is going on there and a very common complaint of LCD tv is that it doesn't handle standard broadcast signals well.
You can try keeping the picture to a 4:3 aspect ratio (which kind of defeats the purpose of buying a widescreen), but that usually makes the largest improvement. You're still going to have some picture quality loss. Your system is trying to turn 480 lines of resolution into 1366 lines.
You might be able to change your display resolution to 640x480 & see if that helps. Until broadcast standards change in about 3 yrs, you're probably going to be stuck w/ standard tv looking bad, DVD's looking ok, & HDTV looking great (if you upgrade w/ cable company & get set-top box).
This Wikipedia page explains this much better than I can.
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