Hey guys, I am new to all these things but I know my TV's (somewhat) and my computers (pretty well).
So I am getting ready to buy a Vizio 42 inch LCD 1080i. Right now I have a Gateway pent D 2.8, 2gb of ram, and a ATI 1600 pro 512mb card. I have surround sound hooked up from my turtle beach sound card via optical.
So here are me newbish questions.
As of now I am thinking about hooking up my TV via VGA (i.e. monitor cable) as my TV will be 1st a monitor, second a TV/DVD player. Would it be a huge advantage to go to DVI/HDMI and buy the cable?
So what does 1080i 720p ect mean for me. Of course I see people looking for certain things in a LCD. But for me just using this 80% as a monitor does my monitor display these things i.e 1080i? Or is it always in 480i?
Is there anything I need to do to my card to let it utilize my TV in the best possible way? The reason I ask is my card has Avivio on it, it talks about upgrading it to get the HD portion or something like that. But then it takes me to a page to buy some stuff. ( http://www.cyberlink.com/english/pro...acks.jsp#combo )
So I am wondering what the deal with that is. Sorry for the newbish questions.
So I am getting ready to buy a Vizio 42 inch LCD 1080i. Right now I have a Gateway pent D 2.8, 2gb of ram, and a ATI 1600 pro 512mb card. I have surround sound hooked up from my turtle beach sound card via optical.
So here are me newbish questions.
As of now I am thinking about hooking up my TV via VGA (i.e. monitor cable) as my TV will be 1st a monitor, second a TV/DVD player. Would it be a huge advantage to go to DVI/HDMI and buy the cable?
So what does 1080i 720p ect mean for me. Of course I see people looking for certain things in a LCD. But for me just using this 80% as a monitor does my monitor display these things i.e 1080i? Or is it always in 480i?
Is there anything I need to do to my card to let it utilize my TV in the best possible way? The reason I ask is my card has Avivio on it, it talks about upgrading it to get the HD portion or something like that. But then it takes me to a page to buy some stuff. ( http://www.cyberlink.com/english/pro...acks.jsp#combo )
So I am wondering what the deal with that is. Sorry for the newbish questions.