Video card to TV question....
 

From previous posts I've gathered we have a few good computer/ multimedia savvy members.

I'm curious as to the best way to view a move that's saved to my hard drive. The PC is decent Dell with some movies saved to one of it's hard drives (Video_TS folders via DVD shrink)). I'd like to know my options for piping those movies to a 32" Sony XBR TV which is appox 20-25' away.

Do I merely get a video card with a S-Output and run a long cable (along with RCA based audio cables) to the TV.

Or wait, run fiber cables to my mid-scale Panasonic reciever/theater system. ( I think it accepts fiber)

Other options? What do you do?

Rick,

How about burn them to a DVD and just play them on the video player?

JoeA

Joe, I've been doing that. But I'd like to cut that step out :)

TV card or video card with S-Video out. ATI makes both, Hauppage makes a *good* TV card

I've looked at the Haupagge. I'm curious if I'd be compromising quality for all the features offered (PVR350). Will ATI quality be better?

the resolution on your TV is far less quality than on a monitor.
Some video cards only put out 800x600 composite/svideo, so you would have to lower the resolution on your monitor as well...

or just get a VGA projector, and project it on a white wall.

DVD blanks are soooo cheap right now. The last batch I got was like $24 for 100 memorex. plus there are some nice players out there that will play DivX and Xvid. So you could fit like 8-9 movies on a single DVD.

Don

Get a Mac Mini, (not a lot more than a high end video card) which has DVI and a nice big screen plasma or projection with DVI and your a happy guy.

Since it's small it'll fit into your entertainment center and you can also play all your mp3's from it. It's got built in wifi and with a VNC client you can run it headless, (sans monitor and keyboard) from any other computer, even a Windows box.