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Maybe worth mentioning; I seen 32" flatscreen TV's for sale at places like KMart for as little as $199, and they have both the monitor connection for standard computer and HDMI for the more modern laptops and home computers. Both connections work well.



I hooked up my new PC to my 50" Sony LCD via HDMI and a window popped up telling me it analyzed my monitor and here is the best resolution. Fine, various videos played great including some HD TV shows I had downloaded but when I opened up a few Windows programs they looked like crap. I know HDTV's have a fixed screen resolution that's why they're so much cheaper than a dedicated computer monitor. My Sony is a 720P not a 1080P so maybe that's it. I did mess around a bit with different resolutions but outside of movies I didn't find any resolution setting that would display a program app well. I know I tried Word and Biab and the text looked terrible. My new PC has the ATI on board HD video chip that has a ATI Control Center software app you can download. The documentation talks about how to greatly improve the video gaming experience and there's pages of highly technical stuff about how to set that up. I downloaded and installed that but haven't put the PC in the living room to try it out. I have no idea how that works but I get the impression it's supposed to create some sort of video overlay or window with it's own resolution separate from the TV's native resolution so programs display properly?

I ask this because I figured getting something like that 32" HDTV would not help with Biab or RB, they're only good for playing movies and games from your PC or laptop. It would be great if they do work with regular program apps because of the price difference.

Bob

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