TV is unreadable

[ice]

Ok, i just connected my TV (using a S-Video to RCA adapter) to my new video card (PNY GeForce FX 5200). My TV is very blurry, and I can hardly read anything on it. The larger print (this shize) is somewhat readable, but not easily. My TV is a Phillips Magnivox flatscreen, 20". Is there some kind of adjustment I can make so it's easier to read. Using a lower resolution makes it more readalbe, but then it won't fill the whole screen, and I have to use the pan feature, which is annoying.

[kiosk]

This is perfectly normal, as TV screens have much lower resolutions than computer monitors - even the oldest VGA monitor with 640x400 resolution has a better resolution than a TV screen.

The text will normally be too blurry to read, unless you increase the font size (let's say, size 25+) and decrease the contrast to reduce flicker.

[bassman]

:confused: :eek: ummmm, not true. Although a CRT television may have much lower resolution than a computer monitor, it is absolutly not lower enough to make text and images unreadable. The lower resolution will result in a Blocky appearance rather then a Blurry image (try lowering your resolution settings on your monitor and that is the effect you will get). I have watched and performed many presentations through a computer on a CRT television with much lower quality then the one described here with minimal loss in image quality.
I recommend you check the TV's focus settings with this input. Also check that all of your connections are clean and tight.
You are going from S-video to RCA. That is the single largest reduction of image quality in your set-up. Does your vid card have another option for the TV-out, like Coax? Have you tried it on another TV?

[ice]

So far, nothing has helped. I did however restart with my TV on, and I could read the BIOS and Windows XP is loading stuff easily, no problem at all. Some of it was clearer than my monitor to be exact. Once it hit Windows, BAM, it's blurry again. Hmmmh, now lets try to work with that.

[shanmuga]

If you are using a conventional analog TV set, then you will have to keep in mind that the resolution of a regular TV set is not the same as that of a PC monitor.

With that in mind, watching TV from a TV Tuner card, playing PVR recordings made by the TV Tuner card, playing DVD movies off the DVD drive, playing streaming videos and other downloaded videos such as movie trailers should all look fine on a regular TV set connected to the PC-TV via a video card with the TV OUT port.

Windows may not look too great depending on the size of your TV set -- small TV sets will certainly make Windows look awful and hard to read.

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