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Title: 27"TV Bad Picture
Post by: sattlewj on February 05, 2003, 01:12:52 pm
I just hooked a 27" Sony TV to my pc via an ATI Radeon 32MB SDR PCI Video Card with TV Out and the picture is quite bad.  It looks like there is a white dotted line around all the text boxes and the screen is all in all not sharp.  The picture is fine while on a monitor, and while loading the cp settings the font is ok, but as soon as Widows XP kicks in I get the bad picture.  I have tried several settings but maybe haven
Title: Re:27"TV Bad Picture
Post by: Homebrew on February 07, 2003, 01:17:47 pm
I'm not good with the technical reasons for this, but tv's aren't known for having a good view in windows.  Refresh rate or something i guess.  Long story short, you're not going to get windows looking too great on a tv.  The PC games though i'm not sure about.  Maybe someone else can enlighten on that.

-Kevin
Title: Re:27"TV Bad Picture
Post by: Jungle on February 07, 2003, 01:35:37 pm
Make sure that you don't have the resolution in Golden Tee PC cranked up too high.  You should set it at 640x480 for running on a TV - this will make the text appear larger and more readable.  

The problem is that the text in that game in particular is quite small...not a problem on a computer monitor but it doesn't translate as well to a TV.  I've found it acceptable runing at 640X480 on my 27" TV.