PC to TV

Mucky_Pup · 28 Jul 2008 at 14:26

Hey, so I currently have a Sony KDL-40D3500 40" Bravia LCD TV in my room, and I'm wanting to connect my PC upto it. Just wondering what I need and where I would get it from.

I'm building a new rig at the minute, the card I'm looking at getting for it is the: Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 if that helps anyway.

All I get from the brief on the TV is that you connect the PC with; PC Input (15pin D-Sub) + Audio In, so was wondering where I would get a cable like this from. Or does this not matter because of the card I have selected, does it have an HDMI port included in it? If so then could I just connect it to one of the HDMI ports on the TV, and run it through the HMDI channel instead of the PC channel like I do my PS3 that is currently using one of the ports.

helmutcheese · 28 Jul 2008 at 14:28

Use a DVI to HDMI Cable if your GPU does not have HDMI.

Mucky_Pup · 28 Jul 2008 at 14:32

Cheers, I was just looking at stuff like that when I read this, lol.

Mucky_Pup · 29 Jul 2008 at 12:09

Another question, the card I'm looking at, has two DVI ports if I'm not mistaken (Can't get a good shot of the rear of it), so I should be able to run a DVI-VGA adapter out of one DVI port for my monitor, and a DVI-HDMI cable to my TV. If I do this will both of them function at the same time, or will I have to switch from port to port somehow, I'm unfamilure with this sort of thing you see, lol.

Cheers

helmutcheese · 29 Jul 2008 at 14:21

Yes you can do what you said above, I do that as I have a High end 22" CRT and a 1080p TV.

No you will not need switch between the two, you can have both off/on or 1 off and other on all through the GPU Control Panel.

Kalpsn2000 · 29 Jul 2008 at 14:38

By the way the 4870 comes with a DVI to HDMI adaptor, so you can just use a normal HDMI to HDMI cable.

Mucky_Pup · 29 Jul 2008 at 14:43

Right, thanks for the help.