Need suggestions for wireless keyboard/mouse & TV setup

Troy plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sat, 8 Dec 2001 19:58:56 -0800 (PST)


The problem is your TV, not the video card.  TV resolutions are not the
same as a monitor nor are they NEARLY as pretty unless you have a very
nice TV with some neat hires features on it.

Troy Moniz

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Matt Alexander wrote:

> I went to Fry's and picked up the Logitech Cordless Freedom Pro (keyboard
> and mouse, which work perfectly, with no driver dependencies).  I also
> found several external devices for sending my VGA output to a TV and
> picked up one that looked relatively decent.  Unfortunately, even at
> 640x480 with S-Video, the quality is horrible and text is almost
> completely unreadable.  So my next question is, has anyone had good luck
> with video cards under Linux that have S-Video output to a TV?  I'll go
> ahead and buy an internal card if it will drastically improve the quality,
> but if not then I'll have to give up on the TV idea and just buy an LCD
> screen to set on my coffee table instead.
> Thanks for your help.
> ~M
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