PC Gaming ! I recommend those with HDTVs !
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, i cant believe how close some people sit near to there lcd tv LOL !
yeh I do this, got my 40" m87 mounted on the wall and my desk set back a bit, so i'm about 1.5m away, and my 19" ws tft is on the desk set to the left so its dual-screening (also need the tft for accurate competetive fpsing like DOD source but TF2 is so good on the TV at 1920x1080, coz its a cartoony game, on the HDTV it is SOOOO colourful and vibrant.
Got a 5.1 soon to be 7.1 set up around it as well.
Also use it for watching blu-ray movies from my PC, the only problem is there doesn't seem to be any way of getting true HD audio output digitally from a PC at the moment, which is irritating but less so when so few films actually have HD audio tracks. Downloading HD episodes of my fav shows is also cool.
BTW whoever it was that played HL2 on a projector - nice one!
Got a 5.1 soon to be 7.1 set up around it as well.
Also use it for watching blu-ray movies from my PC, the only problem is there doesn't seem to be any way of getting true HD audio output digitally from a PC at the moment, which is irritating but less so when so few films actually have HD audio tracks. Downloading HD episodes of my fav shows is also cool.
BTW whoever it was that played HL2 on a projector - nice one!
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virtually all of them do. but id say working on upgrading your 5.1 setup is more important than two extra rear speakers and trying to get HD audio from your pc.
I've been playing CoD4 recently on my 80" screen, with my 1280x720 projector, and home-cinema 5.1 system.
I sit on the bed (with a nice large comfy cushion behind me), keyboard on lap, and mouse on a spare wooden shelf on the bed next to me.
It makes the experience so much better than sitting at a desk with a monitor in front of me (granted I do only have a 17" monitor), and I don't need quite as powerful a PC, because 1280x720 isn't as intensive as higher resolutions - plus I can crank the AA/AF up to compensate anyway
When I move, I doubt I'll have room to do this - so I'll instead get a nice LCD HDTV in the living room and sit on the reclining sofa instead
I sit on the bed (with a nice large comfy cushion behind me), keyboard on lap, and mouse on a spare wooden shelf on the bed next to me.
It makes the experience so much better than sitting at a desk with a monitor in front of me (granted I do only have a 17" monitor), and I don't need quite as powerful a PC, because 1280x720 isn't as intensive as higher resolutions - plus I can crank the AA/AF up to compensate anyway
When I move, I doubt I'll have room to do this - so I'll instead get a nice LCD HDTV in the living room and sit on the reclining sofa instead
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*hopes for a 32" HDTV with HDMI input for christmas*
any offers?
any offers?
*hopes for a 32" HDTV with HDMI input for christmas*
any offers?
Ask the other half - family
, that reminds me i must get a dvi - hdmi cable .
Got my TV today, was well disapointed with VGA input @ 1080P on the 37" text was blurry and games looked pretty bad.
I connected it through HDMI as a test and my god it looks SO much better, infact a little too colourful had to tone it down a bit, it's VERY sharp though, don't know why HDMI was so much better.
I connected it through HDMI as a test and my god it looks SO much better, infact a little too colourful had to tone it down a bit, it's VERY sharp though, don't know why HDMI was so much better.
Ahhh I had Phase set pretty high by default on VGA! Oh well no loss by using HDMI anyway.
phase?
It would look better its a digital signal , i bet 1080p gaming is pretty sweet
Ahhh that'd make sense! Games truely looked pretty poor over VGA so glad I got a free HDMI cable to test it with, have a DVI cable too though which is the same as HDMI I think, without sound though if I'm right.
Some pics here of the desktop and UT3, crappy camera phone!
Desktop
Closeup, dead sharp.
UT3, bad quality.
Another thing that impresses me is the black levels they are superb on this set which has surprised me greatly.
If I'm right and I think I am;
DVI and HDMI will be the same, but with HDMI you can get sound and visual through the same cable, with DVI you just get the video and have to use seperate cables for the sound. (Which most people do anyway)
HDMI and DVI are both digital so there should be zero difference between them quality wise.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/products/television/tftlcd/le27t51bxxeu.asp?page=Specifications
I have just plugged the above HDTV into my PC but I can't set the the resolution of the graphics card or any game to the native resolution of the HDTV, 1366 x 768
Should I be able to do this or have I got it wrong?
I have just plugged the above HDTV into my PC but I can't set the the resolution of the graphics card or any game to the native resolution of the HDTV, 1366 x 768
Should I be able to do this or have I got it wrong?
Try 1360x768, hopefully this will be OK, if the TV does 1:1 pixel mapping, there should be 3 pixels each side of the TV that aren't used. If it tries to stretch it and it looks bad, check the menus of the TV for zoom settings, and put it to True or something similar.