I plugged my radeon 9100 into my tv via a s-video cable, and its so damn fuzzy... wtf is the deal? How can i get a nice clean image like a monitor? So i can read text
Yeah, it's also partly to do with the low quality convertors that they put on graphics card, they aren't exactly pro-standard. If you want crystal clear, you'll need to fork out more money for a better tv out device, but even then, it won't be half as good as your monitors image.
Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
edited August 2003
You might use a large multimodal plasma panel, about 4-6 grand. Different refresh and frame rates, and anything under HDTV TV will not give you real sharp video at beyond 1024x768 and on most large format TVs that are multimodal that is it top end. Monitor greater, TV lessor. When and if large panels get less expensive, you will get best results from a composite video to an HDTV multimodal TV. that could take a decade, tech for TV is ot there yet. Quadro card,high end, is what is used for multimodal motion media most commonly right now, and those cards can cost a thousand plus TV display cost and better monitor to suit without including the other system tunings. fro balance, one of teh new Radeon all-in-ones will give a better balance if it is dual true GPU board. About 500.00 now best price seen for All-in-wonders that are decent, they are true duallie GPUs in and out piped. fro cheaper, try a Dazzle media hub on the end of your s-video from card, between the TV and computer. It does not just filter, it resyncs also and has boosters for signal. It is a fixer product for video situations like yours and also is a product line that comes in several bundles, the best with good Dazzle software for folks who use Windows and are not hyper-budgetted to the ninth degree.
IT can handle Composite and S and SVGA and XVGA in its most expensive form and convert on teh fly with both signal and details decently in balance. TV also matters even with this. You will still get abit of pixel non-sync with this due to the extreme difference unless the TV is a very good multimodal and then it will probably switch to monitor mode on the multiomodal end. You will get better, but not enough to just the conversion if that is what you want to do. A dual or quad GPU card with a GPU per output type or a dedicated convertor is baest. Dazzle is the only one I know for someone on a middling budget that gives you are fair to good software bundle tuned to the device plus decent conversion for a reasonable price (given my budget, which is limited also).
Liquid, at over 550 in resolution, you will always have blurry quality on the tube. The new plasma screens have in the most cases XGA or more computer-like inputs, just like the projectors.
With a normal tube, you are stuck. However, the movies that you down..ehh buy, is in a lower ,more telly friendly resolution and work awesome on tv-out. Load up a Divx movie and see for yourself. I use that feature every day and can´t live without it.
Danball, that telly of yours is just like every other tellys. Most tellys theese days have svhs input and/or output. No point if you dont play a movie recorded in svhs-like resolutions though.
You could try getting your hands on a little application called TVtool, you may find it a bit more functional and versatile over that of the default ATI driver TV out controls.
I have an All-in-wonder but I've never gotten around to using the TV-out. However, in the livingroom I made a PC that runs exclusively on TV out, using a Radeon 7200 with a svideo to composite video adapter. I run it at 640x480 and I enlarged font size so it could be readable. Some 3d programs come with low resolutions that work great for TVs, like the Tripex 3 Winamp visualization. On that PC I run it at 512x384 with FSAA.
Running windows in 640x480 can be a pain, but you can minimize it by making your desktop purpose-friendly. I use a toolbar to house my most used shortcuts, and then auto-hide the start menu and hide the desktop with HideIt. It's Windows 98, which prevents me from using the nice dock programs like Yz's Dock and ObjectDock. If you have an NT, 2k, or XP system, look into those.
If this is your main system and it'll spend most of it's time on the monitor, then create a seperate login with the TV-friendly settings, that way you don't have to change them manually every time.
But to just watch a movie - just turn on the TV out and fullscreen it. All of my Divx and Xvid videos look great fullscreen on that TV. Do you think the problem could be with Kazaa's AVI preview? Or maybe a PAL/NTSC problem?
Comments
1. Pron
2. Other lesser movies.
It can display 800x600 video, but it is blurry.
IT can handle Composite and S and SVGA and XVGA in its most expensive form and convert on teh fly with both signal and details decently in balance. TV also matters even with this. You will still get abit of pixel non-sync with this due to the extreme difference unless the TV is a very good multimodal and then it will probably switch to monitor mode on the multiomodal end. You will get better, but not enough to just the conversion if that is what you want to do. A dual or quad GPU card with a GPU per output type or a dedicated convertor is baest. Dazzle is the only one I know for someone on a middling budget that gives you are fair to good software bundle tuned to the device plus decent conversion for a reasonable price (given my budget, which is limited also).
anyway... you htink the dazzle will make the picture look better? Its fuzzy now and pissing me off
Thrax, one question: how did the "other" get in there?
With a normal tube, you are stuck. However, the movies that you down..ehh buy, is in a lower ,more telly friendly resolution and work awesome on tv-out. Load up a Divx movie and see for yourself. I use that feature every day and can´t live without it.
Danball, that telly of yours is just like every other tellys. Most tellys theese days have svhs input and/or output. No point if you dont play a movie recorded in svhs-like resolutions though.
Running windows in 640x480 can be a pain, but you can minimize it by making your desktop purpose-friendly. I use a toolbar to house my most used shortcuts, and then auto-hide the start menu and hide the desktop with HideIt. It's Windows 98, which prevents me from using the nice dock programs like Yz's Dock and ObjectDock. If you have an NT, 2k, or XP system, look into those.
If this is your main system and it'll spend most of it's time on the monitor, then create a seperate login with the TV-friendly settings, that way you don't have to change them manually every time.
But to just watch a movie - just turn on the TV out and fullscreen it. All of my Divx and Xvid videos look great fullscreen on that TV. Do you think the problem could be with Kazaa's AVI preview? Or maybe a PAL/NTSC problem?