[Cialug] Computer to TV

[Matt Stanton]

So it's not an HDTV?  The easiest (and probably most expensive) way to 
see your computer display on a tv is to get a TV that has an HDMI input 
and a graphics card that has HDMI or DVI output.  If you like having a 
decent resolution to work with, a 1080p tv is what you want.

Otherwise, there have been several nVidia cards that give you an S-Video 
output.  If you also don't have S-Video to work with, then you will need 
something to convert S-Video or VGA to the standard RCA composite video 
output.

When it comes to actually tuning in on tv stations using your tv to 
time-shift and record tv, there are plenty of other people on this list 
who can chime in who know a lot more about it than me.

On 4/3/2010 9:56 PM, Todd Walton wrote:
> What's the easiest way to see the media I have on my computer on my TV screen?
>
> I don't have a "media center" set up, and my computer doesn't have a
> TV card in it.  Though maybe that's what I need, that and a really
> long set of RCA cables.  I have a Roku, and I love being able to
> stream Netflix to my television.  I've seen this thing called xbmc,
> which is media center software for Linux.  It'd be nice if I could use
> media center software on my computer to be a server, and have a
> channel on Roku that pulled from it.
>
> --
> Todd
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