Hey all, If you could help that would be much appreciated, ty in advance. I have succesfully hooked up my cpu and tv together, my question is how can I use both at the same time? eg.. My wife wants to watch a recorded tv show , and I want to be on the net.. any help would help !!! TY
i don't know which graphic card you're using but here's how i do it with my ati card. go to "display properties," right click on desktop > "properties," then select "settings" tab and click on "advanced." if you have the correct driver installed you'll have a choice for the tv+monitor switch. good luck.
i believe that card supports dual monitors, but someone correct me if i'm wrong. all you'd have to do is get a converter cable to go from vga to the back of your tv, and set up your second monitor to play the movie full screen while still surfing the net on your main monitor.
do you have any information on your card? does it say "dual monitor support" or anything like that anywhere in the manual or on the box?
dosent say nothing under advance settings I have Windows Media Center with a tv jack and a svideo beside it and on my video card I have svideo which I am using now
Finally I think I got it I needed to extend my monitors, then run the prog and just drag it to the right so It shows up on my tv! There I have it, thank you guys for your help, much appreciated
the only prob now, is when I drag the movie that is playing to the other screen, Its pretty choppy... dosent run smoothly at all. any ideas on how to fix that?
It may be your comp is not powerful enough...eg bigger power supply or bigger cpu...to run the signal for both.
On Nvidia cards it's easy. Once you have everything hooked up, run the TV Wizard. After that when you right click on a avi/mpg you have an option Play on My TV or Play on My Monitor, or Play on My HDTV if you use component instead of svideo cable and have it connected to a HDTV. If you select play on TV it starts playing and you can minimize the window on the computer and do whatever else you want to do. It only seems to work with avi and mpg files though, if you switch away from a wmv file it pauses it on the tv, and vob or mov files doesn't even list the Play On option when you right click them. If you simply double click on a media file it plays on both displays, provided you selected clone display in the TV Wizard.
