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John Michael

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:03 pm
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OK, here is my problem! I have a Panasonic 1080i HDTV which I'm trying
to use as a monitor. I'm using a Geforce4 MX 420 with S-video out.
When I am connected through the S-video, I get a picture in very poor
quality with little color. However, when I switch the tv to Picture
and picture mode and put the windows desktop as the secondary picture
the color is fine and the picture looks good...until I swap back of
course, then its the same problem all over again! Any help to get it
working right would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:45 pm
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On 28 Nov 2006 15:03:10 -0800, John Michael wrote:

> OK, here is my problem! I have a Panasonic 1080i HDTV which I'm trying
> to use as a monitor. I'm using a Geforce4 MX 420 with S-video out.
> When I am connected through the S-video, I get a picture in very poor
> quality with little color. However, when I switch the tv to Picture
> and picture mode and put the windows desktop as the secondary picture
> the color is fine and the picture looks good...until I swap back of
> course, then its the same problem all over again! Any help to get it
> working right would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.


Why are you useing S-Video? Surely that TV has VGA or DVI connection?

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:29 am
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"John Michael" <john.michael.fiallos RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1164754990.116270.280010@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> OK, here is my problem! I have a Panasonic 1080i HDTV which I'm trying
> to use as a monitor. I'm using a Geforce4 MX 420 with S-video out.
> When I am connected through the S-video, I get a picture in very poor
> quality with little color. However, when I switch the tv to Picture
> and picture mode and put the windows desktop as the secondary picture
> the color is fine and the picture looks good...until I swap back of
> course, then its the same problem all over again! Any help to get it
> working right would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.
>



you'll never get good results with s-video if you're aiming to use it as a
monitor.
you should be connecting via VGA or better still DVI/HDMI



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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:46 am
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the tv only has component inputs, and i found out what the problem was,
i had the wrong nvidia display driver


the dog from that film you saw wrote:
> "John Michael" <john.michael.fiallos DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1164754990.116270.280010@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > OK, here is my problem! I have a Panasonic 1080i HDTV which I'm trying
> > to use as a monitor. I'm using a Geforce4 MX 420 with S-video out.
> > When I am connected through the S-video, I get a picture in very poor
> > quality with little color. However, when I switch the tv to Picture
> > and picture mode and put the windows desktop as the secondary picture
> > the color is fine and the picture looks good...until I swap back of
> > course, then its the same problem all over again! Any help to get it
> > working right would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.
> >
>
>
>
> you'll never get good results with s-video if you're aiming to use it as a
> monitor.
> you should be connecting via VGA or better still DVI/HDMI
>
>
>
> --
> Gareth.
> A french man who wanted a castle threw his cat into a pond.
> http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dsbmusic/
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