Dell 2007wfp and Freeview

S-Video should give a better picture but will still be pants. SD videos look rubbish even through the DVI socket on this monitor. If you have the room for both, look in the local newspaper and you should be able to get a second hand TV for about £10 or so and that will give you a much better picture (providing it's not broken! :p ).
 
Duel said:
S-Video should give a better picture but will still be pants. SD videos look rubbish even through the DVI socket on this monitor. If you have the room for both, look in the local newspaper and you should be able to get a second hand TV for about £10 or so and that will give you a much better picture (providing it's not broken! :p ).
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Heh, I already have a TV but I just don't want the space taken up.

How bad would composite or S video picture quality be?

Also how would I hook up the sound?
 
I've tried Sky digital connected to my 2007WFP through composite. Pretty nasty TBH. You do sorta get used to how it looks but it's nowhere near as nice as a regular TV. I also tried my DVD player through the s-video input, and again it wasn't very nice, although it was better than composite. I get the feeling the composite/s-video inputs are pretty cheap, plus the scaling doesn't help, and the screen is 16:10 not 16:9 so everything gets stretched vertically a little.
 
sanofi said:
Heh, I already have a TV but I just don't want the space taken up.

How bad would composite or S video picture quality be?

Also how would I hook up the sound?
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I've only tried a Gamecube through the composite but compared to a regular TV it was terrible. Everything was blurry, pixelly, stretched and tearing. I would give this monitor a 0/10 for any console that doesn't support at least 720p. 480p (Wii) might be OK but I've read reports to the contrary.

I think only the DVI and VGA connections are any good, but I've not really tested the S-Video or Component tbh. However, I have read a lot of owner feedback and it seems all these sockets are a bit rubbish. The best explanation I can give you for what Freeview would look like is that everything would probably be like watching a crappy old VCD. That's what I've found with the DVD playback at least, and that was through the supposedly highest quality socket.
 
You'd either need attaching speakers (2407 has them, not sure about 2007) or you would need to plug them into a seperate amp/decoder.
 
I did a direct comparison between xbox through s-video on my 2007WFP and on my widescreen CRT TV and it looked a lot worse on the Dell. I also compared sky through composite on the Dell and on my TV and again the Dell looked fairly awful. Gamecube thorugh composite also looked unpleasant. No way would I use the Dell as a TV through either s-video or composite. Maybe with a freeview card in a PC it could look ok, assuming the card did decent upscaling.
 
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