Hey massassians

I used to have a setup in my room where I had an S-Video cable hooked up to my TV so if I wanted to watch a movie I could watch it through the TV to enjoy it more... I am thinking about getting a new HD TV soon for my room and I am wondering what is the best way to do this now with a new TV

I saw an HDMI PCI Express kind of card on newegg but it only had 3 eggs... is there a better way?

Also to kill 2 birds with one stone if I wanted to record what I was doing on the computer such as make a JK video of me playing what would be the best route for that?

I was speaking with beefy about this a while ago and he said he used a video caputre card on one computer and recorded what ever he did on the other... would this new HDMI card have the ability to do that? I know fraps slows the computer down a lot plus you have to pay...

any help would be appreciated

So what, you just want to output to your TV? Most TVs have HDMI or DVI inputs, you can just use that.

right, but my GFX card does not have an HDMI port... do they have cards that can do that? and do they actually work?

Bacically I just want the TV to show what my monitor shows... if that is easier to understand

DVI and HDMI are more or less the same for video, you just need an adapter.

Get this adapter if you want to run an HDMI cable from your TV to your computer, and have the adapter be connected to your computer. Get this adapter if you want to run a DVI cable from your computer to your TV and have the adapter be connected to the TV.

Yes, most all modern video cards have HDMI out now. Just look through Newegg and you'll find HDMI on cards from $50 to $600. Most of them also have built-in sound cards for the HDMI port as well so you'll get sound through it too.

Or just do what Emon suggested if you don't want to buy a new card and your existing card has DVI, which I assume it does if it's not ancient.

Nah its a GeForce 9800 GT with 2 DVI ports

Supid question but I will have to run separate audio cables as well with this right?

Yep

k Thanks.

So on this exact same note, I have a 2004ish HDTV with VGA and DVI connectors. They work fine but I have a Compaq (HP) Windows Vista laptop that only outputs VGA. So when I connect the laptop it gimps me to the 1.33 realm rather than the widescreen variety. I actually have a much older and less capable XP laptop that displays wide fine although with a bit of overscan.

Now it's been awhile since I connected it but I remember not being able to access any "advanced" resolutions. Any ideas?

if it's an ATI card you might have to mess with Catalyst, which is super fun.

My laptop has a monitor plug in the back.

If I remember it is nVidia but I will check it again this weekend.

The easiest way is just run HDMI from your computer to your tv. This way it transmits audio and video. I just bought a really great video card with HDMI output for $90 at best buy. I don't remember the specs, but it can run star craft 2 at the highest settings without any slowdown.

DVI essentially is HDMI without audio (and some newer cards are even capable of throwing audio out too). All it takes is a $2 adapter to convert the plugs.

If you guys are talking to me, my laptop only outputs VGA. I have my 360 connected via HDMI to DVI so I am tracking what you're talking about there.

Here's another craptacular issue I have (I'm not asking for help, just FYI). I have a 24 inch Westinghouse monitor that has all the connections except DVI. When I connect my desktop to the HDMI via the same sort of cable above, the screen flickers on and off at random intervals as well as the monitors sleep mode results in a blue screen and remaining on. I went back to the VGA cable. Lost some sharpness. Gained full functionality.