PC & 60 Inch Plasma

Post by **SpaceBooger** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:28 am

I have 2 game rooms, the one downstairs I will post pics of later, and I have my Wii connected to my 60inch plasma in the living room since both my wife and I play it.
Friday my parents got a new computer, so I took their old one,one that I made,\: P4 1.5g, 1 gig ram, Raedon 7000 32meg graphics card, and 20 gig hard drive.
The video card has s-video out, so I erased the hard drive installed a fresh copy of winxp and plugged it into the big screen tv plugged in my PS2/usb adapter and was in business.
Yesterday I was emulating SNES and NES on the biggest screen I have ever played those systems on... it was fun!

Now I am just waiting for the s-vid to rca adapter to come this week so I can permanently place this downstairs in the real game room full of mame goodness.

Post by **cloudrat7** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:32 am

i don't think i would ever install windows vista, winxp is awesome. i'm always hooking up my desktop up to my tv, But now i have a small laptop that has svideo out, so i just hook that up and play just about every emulator. It's incredible that alot of folks out there have no idea the things you can do with your pc. Your avatar reminds me, i played punch out for mame32 and totally killed it.lol, The nes version is harder in my book.

Post by **Niode** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:00 pm

Is the plasma HD?

Just wondering why you would use S-video....

Post by **SpaceBooger** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:10 pm

The plasma is hd.
I use s-vid because the only inputs on the front of the tv is either that or rca.
Since I will be moving the pc to the basement gameroom next weekend, I didn't feel like removing the tv from the wall to access the back.

Post by **Niode** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:56 pm

Ah fair enough then.

Has that PC got a DVI out?

I'd definately advise getting a cheap graphics card with DVI out (or even HDMI out if you can find one for AGP) if you're gonna hook the PC up to a HDTV. DVI is dead easy to convert to HDMI. You can get connectors now that will take the audio out from the PC and send it through HDMI now. The picture quality will be tons better and you will be able to run at proper HD resolution (driver permitting, but there's custom drivers out there for 16:9 resolutions on nVidia cards, not sure about ATI never used em)