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What do I need to hook this up to my reciever?
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a 5 dollar minijack to RCA cable that you can get at radioshack or any hardware store.
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if you want to add a slew of digital in/outs to your card, you can use an adaptor from Hoontech like this:
Hoontech adaptor
This is a good site for explaining various add-on boards:
http://atlas.csbnet.se/livecenter/sh...p?name=digital
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If I were to buy a video card with a S-video out, can I use my TV as my computer screen ? Any downfalls in doing this ?
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Well you're stuck to a resolution of 640X480 for starters. The ability to read text is piss-poor. I'ts not bad for playing video games or making graphical presentations...but it's pretty poor if it was going to stand-in for a dvd player (and a stand-a-lone player is pretty cheap these days). However as a KraftDinner solution it will work.
PC has it's advantages depending on the graphics card you have....you can turn it into a Tivo, mp3 jukebox, cd-player, video game console, dvd-player
If you have component-in then you would be better off to get a VGA breakout box and hook your pc up to the tv that way. (just be carefull with scan rates...get
PowerStrip and that'll help prevent you from frying your tv.)
What kind of tv are we talking about?
