32WL66 arriving tomorrow - need content !!!

Hodders · 1 Aug 2006 at 22:17

WL66 arriving tomorrow.

I've not got any HD TV to feed it - but I do have a laptop and I'm thinking of attaching it via the D-sub conecter to show my wife some indication of picture quality.

Can some kind person direct me at some HD content that is worth showing off !

Cheers !

Hodders · 1 Aug 2006 at 22:53

I assume that if i connect my laptop via the d-sub I just have to set the 'external' monitor to be [size=-1]1366 x 768 and just play the content full screen ?

Is it that easy ?
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Hodders · 2 Aug 2006 at 10:52

Yay - it's turned up.

Initial thoughts are that analogue content is slightly 'sharper' than on the old TV but that the artifacts on any digital source (HD recorder and DVD) are more noticable.

Still got lots of fine tuning options to play with.

I've tried to hook my laptop up to the TV and it seems to work fine except that windows media player (V9) plays the 720p content I downloaded as a 16:9 block in the middle of the screen with black borders all the way round. The media file reports as 720x1280 so should surely fill the screen - ant pointers to tips or players would be fab !

Hodders · 2 Aug 2006 at 13:05

Trick is to use VLC and set the ratio to 4:3. Then tell the set to use widescreen.

Looks fab !

Hodders · 2 Aug 2006 at 14:09

My investigations show that you can't. You may be able to use powerstrip and set up a custom resolution. It has got something to do with the EDID in the TV reporting an incomplete set of resolutions back to the TV.

The other way is to use a DVI to HDMI cable and drive it that way.

My thinking is that putting 1280x1024 to the TV over a D-Sub (analogue) cable is the next best thing to a true 720p resolution as the TV will have to digitise it anyway....

DVI to HDMI would sort this out as it would be an all digital connect.