A couple of years ago, I built my first computer. While I've recently bought a few upgraded parts such as a larger hard drive, I have still never gotten it completely working.
Why? I've been trying to use my TV as a monitor. I spent $500 for the ATI Radeon 9800 XT. At the time, it was one of the most powerful graphics cards around. A major selling point was that it had a TV Out ability. Or, so I thought...
Regardless of how it is connected to any TV, the image is blurry. Most if not all text is impossible to read. No matter what I try, I can not fix it.
Last year, I bought a DVI-to-HDMI cable. I thought maybe then I could use a widescreen resolution as well as fix the blurriness problem. Seems I was wrong. I see no difference when using the $100 cable as I do with a $10 S-Video cable. The image is still blurry. Plus, now, BIOS and all the stuff visible before Windows starts is now not visible.
My current TV is the KLV-23M1 by Sony. I plan to replace it within a year. I'm going back to the tube. LCD has disappointed me greatly. Depth isn't that much of an issue. Neither is the weight. The picture's quality... That is an issue.
Even with a new TV, that won't fix my problem with the image being blurry. I've used tubes with my computer. The iamge isn't any better. It might be worse. They were non-HD tubes though. My Sony KLV-23M1 is a HD-ready LCD TV.
Anyway, my question is, what will fix the image blurriness.? Do I need a more recent graphics card? Some type of an adapter? What? My current TV has a vertical resolution of 768 pixels. That isn't the problem. The smallest resolutions look blurry as well. Not pixelated. Blurred.
With my new TV might come several other new things. I might be getting a new graphics card, motherboard, cables, and maybe a few other things as well. Basically whatever it takes to fix the image quality.
I recently learned that there are many different DVI heads. I looked and mine is the DVI-D (Single). Would getting one that is DVI-I (Dual) help at least partially?
I know ATI sells an "HDTV" adapter that allows me to use component cables instead of DVI-to-HDMI. They advertise it as allowing you to surf the web on your TV. Of course, they said the same about the 9800 XT itself.
I know one incomplete solution is to increase the font size. If there is anything else I can do, I'd like to try that instead. Even spening a couple hundred more dollars on more correct cables. Increasing the font size is the last thing I want to do.
Anyway, thank you all who read this. If you can help at all, please do. I do need to be able to read text. Even still, SimCity 4 bothered my eyes on that TV. I could play it all day on this CRT monitor. On that blurry LCD TV, I can't last an hour before my eyes are blood shot.
Thanks in advance!
(If I posted this on the wrong board, I'm sorry. This looked to be the best baord for this post.)
Why? I've been trying to use my TV as a monitor. I spent $500 for the ATI Radeon 9800 XT. At the time, it was one of the most powerful graphics cards around. A major selling point was that it had a TV Out ability. Or, so I thought...
Regardless of how it is connected to any TV, the image is blurry. Most if not all text is impossible to read. No matter what I try, I can not fix it.
Last year, I bought a DVI-to-HDMI cable. I thought maybe then I could use a widescreen resolution as well as fix the blurriness problem. Seems I was wrong. I see no difference when using the $100 cable as I do with a $10 S-Video cable. The image is still blurry. Plus, now, BIOS and all the stuff visible before Windows starts is now not visible.
My current TV is the KLV-23M1 by Sony. I plan to replace it within a year. I'm going back to the tube. LCD has disappointed me greatly. Depth isn't that much of an issue. Neither is the weight. The picture's quality... That is an issue.
Even with a new TV, that won't fix my problem with the image being blurry. I've used tubes with my computer. The iamge isn't any better. It might be worse. They were non-HD tubes though. My Sony KLV-23M1 is a HD-ready LCD TV.
Anyway, my question is, what will fix the image blurriness.? Do I need a more recent graphics card? Some type of an adapter? What? My current TV has a vertical resolution of 768 pixels. That isn't the problem. The smallest resolutions look blurry as well. Not pixelated. Blurred.
With my new TV might come several other new things. I might be getting a new graphics card, motherboard, cables, and maybe a few other things as well. Basically whatever it takes to fix the image quality.
I recently learned that there are many different DVI heads. I looked and mine is the DVI-D (Single). Would getting one that is DVI-I (Dual) help at least partially?
I know ATI sells an "HDTV" adapter that allows me to use component cables instead of DVI-to-HDMI. They advertise it as allowing you to surf the web on your TV. Of course, they said the same about the 9800 XT itself.
I know one incomplete solution is to increase the font size. If there is anything else I can do, I'd like to try that instead. Even spening a couple hundred more dollars on more correct cables. Increasing the font size is the last thing I want to do.
Anyway, thank you all who read this. If you can help at all, please do. I do need to be able to read text. Even still, SimCity 4 bothered my eyes on that TV. I could play it all day on this CRT monitor. On that blurry LCD TV, I can't last an hour before my eyes are blood shot.
Thanks in advance!
(If I posted this on the wrong board, I'm sorry. This looked to be the best baord for this post.)
