Question about my monitor.

[Isometric Bacon]

Hey guys. I've got an old Sony 21" monitor from about 20 years ago, that doubles as a TV. My dad was able to get it off his bank before they shutdown.

Basically, since it is a monitor, and not a TV, using the Dreamcast/Xbox etc hooked up gives it crystal clear resolution, the likes you'd normally see if you used a VGA Box to hook up to a regular monitor. Everything is crystal clear, and you can read individual letters on games like Shenmue, when on a normal TV it is a blurred mess. A good example of this type of monitors would be those old Commodore ones that were popular in the 80's.

Unfortunately however, using the PC to TV device I have, (a relatively crap video converter, I hope to get a GEForce 4 MX with TV out in the future) the video quality comes out VERY poor, blurry and the screen seems to shake alot. I don't know whether it is the crappy converter, or just the simple fact it's trying to be outputted onto a TV rather than a monitor... but it's rather disapointing as the resolution is smeary and just ugh.

What I was wondering, is whether buying a new TV out card, like the afromented GEForce4 would help in the resolution department. I'm pretty sure that it would give a much nicer picture, I would just like to know if there is anyway I can utilize the actual monitors sharp resolution, whether the GEForce would do that or not.

Thanks

[paigeoliver]

I use to run an S-Video security monitor (not a television), just like you had, and I was less than happy with the results, although I was using a Voodoo 3 TV out card, which isn't supposed to have the best TV out in the first place.