TV Out help

I had the PC connected to the TV in the living room on the weekend; I had it connected to the stereo as was wanting to view the playlist on the screen.

Problem is this.... I have picture, but the picture is so blurry that i cannot read any of the text on the screen. There didn't seem to be any way to adjust the blurryness of the picture. I tried connected it with s-video and also rca cables but the result is the same. Any ideas why? How can I fix it?

The card is an ati radeon 9600se

Thanks

 

Is it blurry when you play video's etc?

 

hooked up to a tv: yes

with the monitor: no

I tried it on 2 diff tvs as well.....same prob

 

Possibly your screen resolution is too high or too low for the TV to handle. I use 800x600 when piping out to the tv. Other then that maybe try increasing your computers default font size.

 

Mines the same way but when I play a movie or games its no longer blurry.

Its only blurry when I search the web or have text on the screen. I tried alot of different things but have never succeded in getting it clear.If you fix it let me know.

 

theres really nuthing you can do to get around it. the tv runs at 320x240 so even to make 640x480 it has to interpolate it (i think thats what they call it) either way you'll never get yur text to look right. TVTool might help a bit. It will definitly help if you have issues ith the way the video looks as it will help reduce flicker and the such.

G.i.P

BTW if you wanted it to look good you could always buy a big screen l c d tv or hdtv. If you got the extra money lying around. That would fix it.

 

The best I got it is when I switch my vega to 1080i mode or whatever it's called (higher res) .. it's still not perfect though.

 

You can install a line-level converter

 

You wont be able to make it very crisp without a HDTV....or something that can handle the resolution.

 

how bout a nice big wallmount flatpanel monitor?

 

yea....it's perfect on my samsung....ahhhh yes.

but lower your resolution, to like like noels old screenshots lol
800x600 should be fine, increase the font size a touch, and manually change it in browser etc
of course in firefox you don't even have to do that, you can just hold ctrl and scroll for bigger/smaller

 

Or a line-level converter, as stated above.

 

you can do that in IE too

 

Bottom line is a computer being converted from High Res to a normal TV will never allow you to read text. Been drilled into my head all my life about how a TV is much lower res than a monitor.

Learn to deal with it, or spend more money. lol. It's much easier to have both your monitor and TV hooked up. Need to read text, switch on the monitor. Of course, if you're taking the computer elsewhere to use, then it's not a great option.