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My***pit rig is on casters so I wheel it in front of my desk when I
want to drive, but I'd like to leave it out of the way and just switch
displays... and I'd like a bigger display of course.

I know TVs don't support as a high a res as a monitor, so how do you
overcome that?

Thanks in advance,
Glenn

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Biz is right, you need an hdtv to get any decent PQ.  Google for a post I
did last week or so about NR2003 widescreen.  Info on using powerstrip to
get your PCon the big screen should be easy to google as well.

It's worth the hassle if you have an HD set.

Jeff

If you don't mind regular TV output, digital signals for regular TV
are 720x576 or 720x486 (NTSC) pixels. Fortunately a TV does nice
analog blurring. ;-)

I'd say you would come far on normal TV with 800x600; just turn on all
the anti-aliasing (anisotropic) filtering things you have.

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i'm using a video projector that can accept 1024x768 with VGA entry.
So i use the second VGA-out, of the GeForce4

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I've never done it, but would imagine running games from a PC into a
standard-def TV would look like crap.  Progressive HDTV might be OK,
but except for a few models, you would need a VGA to component
transcoder.  Also, you can't get nearly as large a picture as with a
front projection system.

Check out the AVS Forums <http://www.racesimcentral.net/; for more
information about this kind of stuff than you will want to digest.
The HTPC forum <http://www.racesimcentral.net/;
deals directly with home theater computers, and while most people
there are into movies, a number of the posters there are into games.

Also check out the DIY Projectors forum
<http://www.racesimcentral.net/; on the
DIY Audio site, if you think you might want to go that route.

good luck,
Gerald

Gerald

Sometimes I think about using my Toshiba 65H80 as the out of my PC, but I
really fear burn-in problems.

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without burn-in.  Burn-in is a

Or have a plasma TV.  But those are anyway toasted after five years...