DUAL MONITORS (HDTVs)

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johndurr

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Alright, normally I would just use the DVI to VGA adapter and be done with it, but these two TVs don't have those inputs. They have S video, component input, CoAX, and RCA input. I bought a VGA converter that splits into an S video and RCA video female end output, I tried to use these and it gives me barely any picture. My graphic card is the 9250 Radeon that has DVI VGA and S video. Also my goal is to extend monitors, not clone. Any help would be awesome. Thanks.
BTW, i'm not looking to give off HDTV, just regular dual monitors.
 
you dont even know what the tv is

if its a new HD tv with a resolution of around 1920 X 1080 or 1280 X 720 the resolution would be high enough to look decent


but your card will be really strained at running two of these monitors so dont expect to do gaming on both of these
 
the tv could be fine

that tv has no digital inputs, tho

i wouldn't recommend hooking up something as a computer monitor with component cables.

VGA's the only analog cable i'd ever recommend using for a computer signal.

component cables are going to cause banding/dot crawl/blurriness

not to mention necessitating D/A conversion by the card, as well as A/D reconstruction by the tv, since a digital television can't display an analog signal without first reconverting it to digital.

And i'll agree, seperate cards are probably going to be necessary if you plan on gaming on both.
 
PLUS, video cards don't support 1920x1280, they support 1920x1200
and they don't support 1280x720, they support 1366 x 768

either way you slice it, it's not going to look nearly as good as it would on an actual computer monitor. The scaling is going to introduce all sorts of nasty artifacts into the picture.
 
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