Watching TV on my 2005FPW LCD and Laptop. *HELP*

[Daboss]

I am completely lost as to how one can use an LCD monitor to watch TV. I currently have my 2005FPW running off my dell 700M. Is there any way to watch TV directly though the LCD using some sort of tuner box? I would prefer to be able to run the cable directly to the LCD without having to use the laptop so just incase I don't have my laptop there, I can still watch TV.

Any advice?

[SergesPlace]

try in here http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202114

[Daboss]

try in here http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202114

I tried looking though that thread, and found one most where the guy said he uses an old tv tuner and Dscaler. No specifics...so I am still lost :). Thanks for trying to point me in the right direction!

[goofball]

do you have the 2005FPW with the speaker base? if not, then you will need to find a way to get audio to play, unless you are fine with out.

Otherwise, the 2005FPW accepts composite and S-Video input. Any decent receiver like one for Rogers/Bell will have those for outputs. You will then need to get audio input. That, you can do, with a converter, for RCA to 1/8" stereo jack. You will need female ends on both the RCA and the stereo jack.

[Daboss]

do you have the 2005FPW with the speaker base? if not, then you will need to find a way to get audio to play, unless you are fine with out.

Otherwise, the 2005FPW accepts composite and S-Video input. Any decent receiver like one for Rogers/Bell will have those for outputs. You will then need to get audio input. That, you can do, with a converter, for RCA to 1/8" stereo jack. You will need female ends on both the RCA and the stereo jack.

That seems pretty stright forward. Has anyone tried this...how does this picture look?

[Daboss]

Anyone else using their 2005FPW to watch TV? What are your setups, and how does it look?

[jb22]

I connected my Roger's digital cable box via s-video to my 2005FPW and it wasn't as ba as I was expecting. I mean it wasn't HD or anything, in fact the picutre does look much better on regular tv. I currently have my XBox connected via s-video and again, the pciture quality lookes better on my tv (then again I am sitting pretty up close to my LCD) but I like the widescreen. As for the audio, I'm using a stereo RCA to mini jack Y thingy and a female to female adapter. It works although I'm looking building an Altoids amp as I don't have any volume control at the moment.

I will say that the picture quality does look better with an s-video connecting compared to standard composite cabels.

[Cisco KId]

S Video is the only way to go, I would not go through the bother to watch TV on it via composite. If I was gonna go that route may as well look at a AIW series card or use a separate TV tuner.

It will be as good as basically any other decent LCD running a cable feed. Not spectacular but okay. If you want to watch TV at its best utilize a digital feed of some sort like Bell or Shaw or go DVB FTA

[Menace]

But course. I have an AIW 9800 on my desktop and a 2005FPW. However, I don't watch too much TV because it isn't comfortable.

You will have a lot of hassles to set up an external TV card on your Dell 700M laptop and an external LCD monitor. By the way, you don't need a laptop, just get a external TV BOX from Tigerdirect.

Anyone else using their 2005FPW to watch TV? What are your setups, and how does it look?

[Spinz]

That seems pretty stright forward. Has anyone tried this...how does this picture look?


i have also connected my tv signal from the rogers box in the S-Video hook up and the audio is going through my soundblaster audio input...

i love clean crisp media, but this does fall a little short of that...

pros:

from about a 3 metre distance, the colours and brightness are incredible

cons:
the tv output is a little pixalated and in fast motion a little blotchy...(not really ghosting, but pixals are more visable), i noticed it while watching hockey and some basketball...

i'm also searching both redflag and google on how to fine tune the picture for both DVI and S-video inputs...on one of the reviews (in which i noticed the same thing), it says that for component video input (such as DVD player) the picture is a little dull...i have the same experience, also when watching movies through a DVI input...

i have not tried to use an HD signal yet using component, but judging by the picture on the DVD w component, I'm not too sure the colour would be any better...

if any of you theater buffs know about a way to get more vivid colour on S-video connections,/ component, please share...