Right. I'd rather post it here than a computer forum, they annoy me, and loads of people here are in the IT field anyway.

I'm intrested in connecting my TV to my PC as a monitor for watching films and playing games and so on. I have a Geforce 4 Ti 4200, but I don't know what cables I need, anyone care to tell me please ?

Right. I'd rather post it here than a computer forum, they annoy me, and loads of people here are in the IT field anyway.

I'm intrested in connecting my TV to my PC as a monitor for watching films and playing games and so on. I have a Geforce 4 Ti 4200, but I don't know what cables I need, anyone care to tell me please ?


it depends on what kind of outputs are on the video card and what kind of inputs are on the TV

You can only hook your pc up to your tv if:

Your video card has a coaxial out (like the cable tv plug) or composite video out (the yellow plug) or your tv has a vga input (which is doubtful).

BTW, your tv is infinitely worse than a computer monitor. I would stick to your monitor if I were you.

pretty simple....get a TV tuner card like this one (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html)

there are many manufacturers but i'm kinda partial to Hauppauge, all I had to do was hook up a splitter to my cable....one end in the tv another to the card...the software that comes with card pulls the image to your PC...pretty friggin cool actually.

btw....thats possibly the most layman explanation you can get :D

Most vid cards now have simple TV out. This will be in the form of S-video, which looks much like a PS2 port on your motherboard (circular with several little holes in it). Then you buy an S-vid cable and hook the monitor to the TV.

In better cases you'll have a digital output on your vid card, and a digital input on your TV. This is unlikely - at least with the TV - since only pretty new tvs have these inputs.

As mentioned, quality is ass. You can play games, but be forewarned you'll lose tons of clarity. Movies will be ok, as long as the video out on your vid card is good. You think that a DVD looks great on your tv, but the same movie coming out of your comp may not look good if the card's video out capabilities are poor. You can't know until you try though.

A lot of cards have the digital (I think it's called DVI) outputs, and if you pair them with a DVI capable tv you'll actually have pretty nice quailty. I've seen this setup with a big flat screen tv and it looked quite nice.

My graphics card has a DVI output as far as I know. I don't know about the TV though. It's about a year old, 21".

I've seen it being done before but differently, the quality is nothing compared to a monitor, but I can't exactly watch films from my monitor since the bed in my room is so far away (big room), and a chair can be a pain.