Tricking the plasma.

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Hello All,

About 4 or 5 years ago we bought a Panasonic Plasma to use with a PC to
show demos, display PowerPoint slides, etc. However, PC output to it
has always been low resolution. About the best we could get was
800x600. However, it displays DVDs very nicely and looks great. The
Plasma has the standard Component, S-Video, and PC input ports, but no
DVI. We currently are running a E-VGA FX5200 card and it improved the
PC output just a little. It has dual ports, one DVI and one S-Video.
The DVI comes with a PC 15-pin adapter.

Question: is there a product or a method to trick the Plasma into
thinking the PC output is from a DVD type source? Can anyone think of a
way to have a Powerpoint slide display as well as the your favorite
movie on DVD?

Also, please let me know if another forum would be better for this
question.
Any ideas would be very helpful.
Thanks to all.

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Hi Matthew, the model is a Panasonic TH 42PW4
Yes I understand, all to well, its limitation as a display for a PC.
What I was hoping to find was a method or device that would convert the
PC out to a signal that simulates a high quality DVD signal. I might
be asking for something impossible. I don't know. Are there any video
cards that would send my PC output through a onboard TV/DVD converter
perhaps and then display on the Plasma a higher quality image or a
faked DVD type image. The PowerPoint slides or Word Documents would,
in effect, be displayed as pseudo-DVD movies or images.

Matthew Vaughan wrote:
> <george.e.sullivan@saic.com> wrote in message
> news:1122322745.511485.266240@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Hello All,
> >
> > About 4 or 5 years ago we bought a Panasonic Plasma to use with a PC to
> > show demos, display PowerPoint slides, etc. However, PC output to it
> > has always been low resolution. About the best we could get was
> > 800x600. However, it displays DVDs very nicely and looks great. The
> > Plasma has the standard Component, S-Video, and PC input ports, but no
> > DVI. We currently are running a E-VGA FX5200 card and it improved the
> > PC output just a little. It has dual ports, one DVI and one S-Video.
> > The DVI comes with a PC 15-pin adapter.
> >
> > Question: is there a product or a method to trick the Plasma into
> > thinking the PC output is from a DVD type source? Can anyone think of a
> > way to have a Powerpoint slide display as well as the your favorite
> > movie on DVD?
> >
> > Also, please let me know if another forum would be better for this
> > question.
> > Any ideas would be very helpful.
> > Thanks to all.
>
> Which plasma is it? If it is an ED plasma, then it is only capable of
> 854x480 resolution (or thereabouts). DVDs will look great on it, since
> they're 720x480.

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<george.e.sullivan@saic.com> wrote in message
news:1122322745.511485.266240@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Question: is there a product or a method to trick the Plasma into
> thinking the PC output is from a DVD type source? Can anyone think of a
> way to have a Powerpoint slide display as well as the your favorite
> movie on DVD?

You could burn your presentation to DVD.

You could use a utility like PowerStrip that lets you edit the low level
format of the video output of the gfx chip.


> Also, please let me know if another forum would be better for this

http://www.avsforum.com in the HTPC section.


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