For those who have Plama TVs

[jip]

How do you currently hook up your BTV to your system?
I am considering getting a plasma, but am unsure of how and what I need to consider to connect the recordings to the new plasma.

thanks for sharing your ideas

- J

[Dre]

All plasma's have RGB and most new ones have DVI. I have a Samsung Plasma with a PC connected to it. Take my word for it. After you watch HD programming or progressive scan DVD you won't be able to deal with the crappy quality video that PC's pump out... 1080i is stunning on a Plasma.

Anyhoo.... If you get by the quality issue snapstream works well via the PC interface.

[ScAtMaN]

I just got me a 30" LCD television and have my box connected to the RGB PC connector. Text and graphics look very crisp and readable, as you would expect as its acting just like a huge LCD monitor, but most of the TV's clever tricks like Pixel plus and image processing are disabled when using the PC connector, and you certainly notice the difference.

The set had component inputs and I was toying with having some sort of DVI to component adaptor to see if this improves picture quality.

Has anyone else tried a similar setup?

[jsutton2871]

I have my LCD/TV/Monitor connected to my nvidea FX5600 primary VGA output and my Pioneer 4340 connected to the DVI/VGA connector on the FX5600 this feeds VGA into the VGA input on the 4340. I have the S-video out on the FX5600 connect to my upstair sony tv. I use clone mode on the nvidea driver for the monitor and the plasma I have to switch to tv to send output to the sony upstairs. Took a while to figure this all out using the nvidea driver, but it works great

[jip]

Originally Posted by jsutton2871

I have my LCD/TV/Monitor connected to my nvidea FX5600 primary VGA output and my Pioneer 4340 connected to the DVI/VGA connector on the FX5600 this feeds VGA into the VGA input on the 4340. I have the S-video out on the FX5600 connect to my upstair sony tv. I use clone mode on the nvidea driver for the monitor and the plasma I have to switch to tv to send output to the sony upstairs. Took a while to figure this all out using the nvidea driver, but it works great

What resolution are you feeding into your 4340?
Do you think you are getting better quality using the BTV->(vga)->4340 than if you had connected the cable from the provider directly into the 4340 (guessing NTSC)?

Thanks
- J

[jsutton2871]

In clone mode both the monitor and the plasma are at 1024/768. Both are perfect pictures. The BTV recordings are also sent at 1024/768 but in reality they are the 480 that the capture card (250) generates. I find the VGA from the nvidia is the same as the DVI input that the 4340 hidef reciever sends to the plasma, quality wise.