I just bought this display
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824001096

It's awesome I love it. I have a question. Clearly I can't installl a tuner card into my my mac mini.

So I was thinking I could just hook up my HDTV tuner to my monitor with a samsung tuner with a HDMI to DVI cable

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And then I set the resolution on both the tuner and monitor (assuming the monitor is progressive) to 720p .


I guess I'm just asking if this is possible and if anyone has done this before?

[Edited on November 9, 2007 at 6:50 PM. Reason : ]

11/9/2007 6:47:19 PM

you want to have one input on the monitor be your tv tuner and the other be your computer? yes, that will work. all lcd's are progressive.

11/10/2007 9:53:55 AM

can you not get an external usb tuner? i thought they made those but I could be mistaken

11/10/2007 10:03:05 AM

I already have a TV tuner, no need in getting another one.

11/10/2007 10:50:12 AM

bttt

11/10/2007 11:42:49 AM

That should work.

My HD 24" BenQ (1920x1200)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824014124

11/10/2007 1:56:01 PM

I don't understand the whole "HD" computer display thing. Computer displays have been "HD" since the late 80's haven't they? I mean anything higher than 720 is "HD" right?

Like the 1024 by 768 display came out in 1987 and the 1600 by 1200 display came out in 1988, so why this big move to call computer monitors "HD"?

I mean "HD" is really only a measure of a televisions quality, not a computer monitors quality. So why have they applied it to computer monitors? Just to make people think the product is "up-to-date"?

[Edited on November 10, 2007 at 3:55 PM. Reason : .]

11/10/2007 3:52:23 PM

look up HDCP

11/10/2007 3:59:05 PM

^yeah i was reading about that. But what determines whether a computer display is HD or not is not if it's HDCP or not right? I mean i can watch HD movies, or OTA HD on my display in "HD". Or play games in "HD". It's a dell 2407wfp and it's the non-HDCP version. How is it different than the HDCP version? I mean i can hook up a 360 to my display using a dvi-hdmi cable and it'll work? Right?

11/10/2007 4:10:17 PM

can you use it to watch a bluray or hddvd?

11/10/2007 4:11:11 PM

^well lets just say i do watch bluerays and HD-DVDS but they aren't exactly from the disks. So you're saying even if i had a blueray or hd-dvd player hooked up to my display with a dvi-hdmi cable, it wouldn't work?

Or if i got a blueray/hddvd drive for my pc, i couldn't use them? Just because it isn't HDCP?

[Edited on November 10, 2007 at 4:18 PM. Reason : .]

11/10/2007 4:12:50 PM

that is what they want to happen

11/10/2007 4:21:46 PM

Ok so i figured this out. I think.

HDCP prevents HD content from being played on non-HDCP complient monitors. So if i wanted to watch an actually HD disk (with a blueray/hddvd drive) on my pc, i'd have to buy a new HDCP complient monitor?

So all those rich computer geeks who spent 2000$ on a nice 30" mac/dell lcd that isn't HDCP compliant won't be able to use blueray/hd-dvd drives with thier computer legally because the content will be downscalled because the graphics card isn't getting the code or whatever from the display? So if they DO buy a blueray/hddvd drive, then the ONLY way they can watch them is illegally?

So basically in the long run, HDCP is causing all these people who have nice non-hdcp compliant lcds to buy the blueray/hd-dvd THEN rip them using software that bypasses HDCP so they can in turn play them on thier non-hdcp monitors?

So how does that make sense?

11/10/2007 4:41:00 PM

Oh the irony that is copyright protection

[Edited on November 10, 2007 at 5:12 PM. Reason : .]

11/10/2007 5:11:58 PM