rec.autos.simulators

by **Paulinh** » Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:10:13

Well I've just bought a 37" HD-TV with pc inputs... dvi and normal !!!

cant wait to try R-Factor out in a min !

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by **p.oxf..** » Wed, 07 Dec 2005 04:54:31

LOL. You're a bachelor, Paulinho, aren't you?

by **Paulinh** » Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:22:12

Im in a long term relationship... 6+ years now !!

lol

by **ymenar** » Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:31:47

> Well I've just bought a 37" HD-TV with pc inputs... dvi and normal !!!

> cant wait to try R-Factor out in a min !

Your RGB monitor will still be better iirc, just smaller.

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by **David Vincen** » Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:23:27

>> Well I've just bought a 37" HD-TV with pc inputs... dvi and normal !!!

>> cant wait to try R-Factor out in a min !

> Your RGB monitor will still be better iirc, just smaller.

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> -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimago-Dominguez
> Corporation - helping America into the New World...

whys that..?

by **Destro** » Thu, 08 Dec 2005 10:26:28

Westinghouse 37" 1080p LCD by chance? It's what I PC with. Love it
except for the heavy horsepower needed to push the native res. :)

> Well I've just bought a 37" HD-TV with pc inputs... dvi and normal !!!

> cant wait to try R-Factor out in a min !

by **ymenar** » Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:53:42

>> Your RGB monitor will still be better iirc, just smaller.

> whys that..?

I have first to congratulate the developpers of rFactor for having native
16:9 support. It's such a natural for racing sims. We all know from GPL.
One thing for sure is that dual-monitors is a no-go imho for racing 'cause
it's SO annoying having your horizon split in two on each screen :-) 3 is a
charm.

Anyway to answer you... to keep a 60hz rate means that you'll probably have
to lower the res from 1080i to standards that good PC's can easily match and
go much higher, they can go above the 2million pixels of 1080i in raw
surface anyway so its easily equal to 1080i. Or else you'll be stuck in
native 30 hz, that's not fun. There's some overscan problems also iirc with
rFactor, but that can be fixed with driver tweaks.

We're getting friggin close that's for sure in terms of software. In a year
I expect all PC games to all support 1080i on the PC for outputting to an
HDTV. They must do to battle against the 3 new consoles.

4:3 CRT monitors are slowly going to dissapear. I give them 3 more years
max, but they will probably still be available like 4:3 TV's today.

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by **PlowBo** » Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:13:13

yeah please giv more info about the purchase, so I can dream about one at
least... I imagine it was not on the clearance rack, even if it was...
Still it would be nice to know what you got, you know in case I get a chance
or something.
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