09-25-2005, 02:41 PM
Seeing as how I can't afford a HDTV and all I have is a normal TV from about 10 years ago, everything is nice and clear for me.
A normal TV runs at 500 to 600 scan lines a second I believe (been a while since I read anything about it) so anything above that will look clearer or at least look the same. I find that things seem a little clearer on my TV. Not as clear as whats on my monitor but clearer then whats on my TV normally.
The reason why I suggested this method to cow was so that he wouldn't have to waste CDs by VCDing stuff to multipul discs that hes just going to watch once and then toss out.
I download TV shows that I can't get locally or of episodes I miss. Once I'm done watching them delete them. But my back was getting more and more sore sitting in my computer chair so around 45 bucks after I have my computer system now set up as a small multimedia system (lacks the ability to record but I can eventually fix that, not that I am really interested as all the shows I watch locally eventually come out on DVD that I can buy)
It is also nice to be able to pop in a DVD into my computer and sitback and watch it on my bed. My back likes the new setup alot. :D
also rereading that stuff, I don't actually think I missed anything. I'm just looking at my setup now and everything is the same I believe.
There is one thing I did after I had everything set up to save me time from switching from normal cable to computer. I had 2 wires with plugs them othem that I could just slide onto the back of the TV instead of having to screw the coax cable on.
So I picked up a 2 pack of connectors thats used to join 2 coax cables together. I put one in the end of the coax that brings the cable into the house and one in the coax cable from the RF mod box. Then I just sipped on end of the 2 cables that slide on to the 2 coax cables and now I can change cables in under 10 seconds where as before I had to take the time to unscrew the one in the back of the TV then screw the other one back in. Not really time consuming but annoying.
A normal TV runs at 500 to 600 scan lines a second I believe (been a while since I read anything about it) so anything above that will look clearer or at least look the same. I find that things seem a little clearer on my TV. Not as clear as whats on my monitor but clearer then whats on my TV normally.
The reason why I suggested this method to cow was so that he wouldn't have to waste CDs by VCDing stuff to multipul discs that hes just going to watch once and then toss out.
I download TV shows that I can't get locally or of episodes I miss. Once I'm done watching them delete them. But my back was getting more and more sore sitting in my computer chair so around 45 bucks after I have my computer system now set up as a small multimedia system (lacks the ability to record but I can eventually fix that, not that I am really interested as all the shows I watch locally eventually come out on DVD that I can buy)
It is also nice to be able to pop in a DVD into my computer and sitback and watch it on my bed. My back likes the new setup alot. :D
also rereading that stuff, I don't actually think I missed anything. I'm just looking at my setup now and everything is the same I believe.
There is one thing I did after I had everything set up to save me time from switching from normal cable to computer. I had 2 wires with plugs them othem that I could just slide onto the back of the TV instead of having to screw the coax cable on.
So I picked up a 2 pack of connectors thats used to join 2 coax cables together. I put one in the end of the coax that brings the cable into the house and one in the coax cable from the RF mod box. Then I just sipped on end of the 2 cables that slide on to the 2 coax cables and now I can change cables in under 10 seconds where as before I had to take the time to unscrew the one in the back of the TV then screw the other one back in. Not really time consuming but annoying.