<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles@compuware.com><br>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug@mdlug.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:11:49 AM<br>Subject: Re: [mdlug] Building a Linux PVR<br><br><div><br>> From: Clinton V. Weiss<br><br>> Thanks for you thoughts on this. You didn't quite come out and say<br>> it, but I believe you were hinting that using a TV as a monitor is a<br>> bad idea. I have to agree with that. I am looking into finding a<br>> decent LCD monitor that will dual purpose as my TV.<br><br>>It's not a *bad* idea, but it takes
some care in selection, and maybe<br>>accepting some tradeoffs. Caveat emptor and all that. :-><br>><br> >Sincerely,<br>>Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317<br><br><br>One one major thing you are forgetting is that the major thing that limits a video card as far a<br>resolution goes is the monitor. Most modern video cards don't care what resolution they display at.<br>Every modern graphics card company will tell you the largest resolution its cards are capable of handling and they are<br>capable of displaying just about every resolution up to the number, ex. Nvidia reports that its latest card<br>can do a resolution up to and including 2560x1600. Yes it might take some work to tune your graphics cards<br>to fit your TV's resolution
but in the end it is usually more worth while than using an LCD Monitor as a TV.<br>Keep in mind that most modern "TVs" are just "monitors" anyway, terms in "" used loosely.<br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>