Hi guys

What's the best way to connect my PC to a HD TV to watch my currently stored HD Movies? I have a nVidia 8800GTX Graphics Card with two DVI Outputs so I think one way I can do it is to buy a DVI-HDMI cable and connect it straight to my future HDTV - or are they alternate or better ways to do it?

I also need to buy a 32" HDTV and this is the one I have kept my eye on

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/detai...=LE32M87BDX/XEU

After searching around and reading one review however, it seems that that this TV isn't very effective when it comes to DVI-HDMI connection from my PC and apparently picture quality is bad, can anyone contest this or back this up? I am currently extremely baffled on what to do/buy, this TV seems to be the perfect price at £450 at ebuyer :(

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

If you were to do DVI to HMDI you would still need to use you computer speakers for sound. The issue I have seen with using a HMDI input from a PC is that HDTV's are stuck at 1 resolution. I have a 37" HDTV and I can only do 640 x 480 through HDMI.

Originally posted by AE27:

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If you were to do DVI to HMDI you would still need to use you computer speakers for sound. The issue I have seen with using a HMDI input from a PC is that HDTV's are stuck at 1 resolution. I have a 37" HDTV and I can only do 640 x 480 through HDMI.

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I see, is there any way around it? Is that resolution for all TVs/PCs/Graphics Cards? I understand that Audio will have to be through my computers connection, but I am willing to reconnected my sound card audio to that of my TV 5.1 Surround system when I do watch movies from my PC. However, is there a way around this also?

I have an ati 2600xt and it has an intergrated hd audio controller and it came with a dvi-hdmi adapter. I can hook up my pc to an hdtv using an hdmi cable and the sound is sent along with the video signal across the hdmi cable. It will do up to 5.1ch surround sound i believe. I know some of the 2000 and 3000 series ati cards have this capability, but im not sure if all of them do. As far as using a dvi-hdmi cable is concerned, as long as you set your video card to output the same resolution that your tv runs in natively, then the picture quality should be fine.

Thanks for the help :) So do you think that TV I outlined in the original post is fine? Or should I get something else maybe? In the same price range?