PC and HDTV-is it worth?

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Hi! Anybody here could give me advise/answer to this-complete ass here..
Want to use HDTV as PC monitor for old Dell Inspiron with 8 MB of video.

-what HDTV could I use (20-30", 16:9, PIP)?
-will the PC display (Internet, MS Office, some games) be OK?

I was looking at some Samsung and LG monitors, but I don,t want to buy it,
if my laptop is too old for this.

Thank You for any advice

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"compitus" <compitus@cwnet.com> wrote in message
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> Hi! Anybody here could give me advise/answer to this-complete ass here..
> Want to use HDTV as PC monitor for old Dell Inspiron with 8 MB of video.
>
> -what HDTV could I use (20-30", 16:9, PIP)?
> -will the PC display (Internet, MS Office, some games) be OK?
>
> I was looking at some Samsung and LG monitors, but I don,t want to buy it,
> if my laptop is too old for this.
>
> Thank You for any advice


A serious consideration should be what video card your laptop has - the only
ones that I am aware of that do a decent job of outputting to televisions
are the ATI all-in-wonder cards. You laptop doesn't have one of those ( I
assume ) so it may be quite difficult connecting the two. Also, I'd go with
an LCD tv if you can afford it - as CRT HDTV tube tv's are interlaced at
higher resolutions and generally wouldn't connect as well to a computer
unless the video card can output an interlaced signal. Interlaced might
also be harder on the eyes up close. One thing, however, is that LCD tv's
don't seem to be any cheaper than LCD monitors so it may not be worth the
bother.

Bear in mind this isn't my area of expertise but since no one else has
chimed in yet I thought I'd tell you what I know, anyway, for what its
worth.


Tom