Work was very kind enough to loan me a 24" Sun Microsystems HDTV (wide screen) computer monitor. (Loan = keep for as long as I work for the company.) I have to say, I'm enjoying it very much on my Radeon VE card at 1920x1200 resolution!
But I realize that this is the only wide-screen monitor in my house, and I'd like to play wide-screen DVDs on it. But, even after reading some of the FAQs, I still have some confusion.
Would my best (best = cheap but still reasonably good) way of doing this (playing DVDs on this wide-screen computer monitor) would be to get a higher end DVD player and an additional component to RGB converter (the monitor only takes HD15 style VGA inputs), or to use the DVD player software that comes with my video card (to support the built-in MPEG hardware) and play DVDs that way?
Is there a major difference in picture between the two? Is there a major different in the picture (in terms of resolution, but aside from the wide-screen thing) between this and viewing DVDs on a regular TV that has component input?
I'm kind of confused which way is the best to go and what I'd get in terms of trade-offs.
But I realize that this is the only wide-screen monitor in my house, and I'd like to play wide-screen DVDs on it. But, even after reading some of the FAQs, I still have some confusion.
Would my best (best = cheap but still reasonably good) way of doing this (playing DVDs on this wide-screen computer monitor) would be to get a higher end DVD player and an additional component to RGB converter (the monitor only takes HD15 style VGA inputs), or to use the DVD player software that comes with my video card (to support the built-in MPEG hardware) and play DVDs that way?
Is there a major difference in picture between the two? Is there a major different in the picture (in terms of resolution, but aside from the wide-screen thing) between this and viewing DVDs on a regular TV that has component input?
I'm kind of confused which way is the best to go and what I'd get in terms of trade-offs.