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jack982   05-17-2008 at 02:14:08 AM

Im having trouble enabling my tv as another monitor. The card im using is an old ati radeon s9250 pci. When I try enabling the tv it comes up on the tv but all blurred and messed up. The tv is an old goldstar tv. If anyone could help it would be great. If nothing can fix it I might get a new card.

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4745454b   05-17-2008 at 02:22:41 AM
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Nope, sounds like its working just fine. Older CRT TVs look like crap. If you want a good picture, try using a new Plasma or LCD.

Videos should look fine. My 27" CRT is horrible, but full screen video files look fine. Try using VLC to load a video file, and drag it over to the second screen. Enable full screen, and see how it looks. For me, it looks just like cable.

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Crashman   05-17-2008 at 02:35:01 AM
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The problem is your TV, its resolution is too low. You can't fix your TV. Your video card is probably feeding it 2 to 3 times its native resolution, so everything looks blurry compared to how it would look on a monitor.

The other problem is that S-Video cables don't support high resolutions. But if you're using a composite (RCA style) video cable, you could decrease the blurriness slightly by using an S-Video cable.

No matter what you do, it's still going to look blurry.

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jack982   05-17-2008 at 05:42:23 AM
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the thing is it's blurry beyond being able to see anything sort of clear

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Crashman   05-17-2008 at 06:36:37 AM
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Increase your font size to like, 72. That would scale them up to around the "normal" size for text on a TV broadcast.

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englandr753   05-17-2008 at 06:53:25 AM
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Reduce your resolutions as much as possible. I have a 27" HD tube TV and it takes some tweaking. You wont get it ideally perfect for the desktop but as 4745454b says, video looks great.

I play DVD movies I have stored on my PC (280 of them) and its awesome but part of that is being an HD tv. Your movies should be very clear and playable on that tv once you get your resolutions set right.

Im using DVI which also helps out tremendously.

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jack982   05-17-2008 at 08:11:44 AM
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*sigh* I tryed about everything and still nothing works. oh well thx for the help anyways guys.

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4745454b   05-17-2008 at 01:56:27 PM
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Are you saying videos look bad? If you want it to look good for text, I'm not even sure thats possible. Increasing the font size will help, but AFAIK, it will still look bad. Again, people hook their computers up to their TVs to watch movies/DVDs/TV shows, etc, not to type papers on them.

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jack982   05-18-2008 at 01:03:56 PM
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It's not that I want to type things. I want to watch movies and such but when I enable my tv as a monitor the tv looks all discolored and looks as if the tv screen was in a blender.

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4745454b   05-18-2008 at 01:06:18 PM
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How do you have it hooked up, and what drivers are you using?

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jack982   05-18-2008 at 06:07:13 PM
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I have an s video cable hooked up to the graphics card in my pc and the other end has an s video to rca adapter hooking into my tv. The driver is ati catylyst version 6.11.

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4745454b   05-18-2008 at 11:30:17 PM
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I use an Svideo cable to connect my x1800xt to my TV, no adapter is used. I've never tried to use either an adapter or a RCA plug to hook up a TV, so I don't know if the issue is there. (I have hooked up things before with those "patch" cords, if you are using an old cord in this setup anywhere, go out a buy a new one.)

Try updating the driver? Try changing the refresh rate? (what res do you have it setup for?) You might want to try a set of Omega drivers while your at it. I think the issue is your TV is to old and/or the use of composite cabling.

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