Thread: Video Card with video output question?

Well, yea, you can use a TV as a monitor but the picture on an all but the best TVs is very very poor. It is up to you. I recommend you use a monitor and then a TV extra if you want to watch movies or something. On to your second question. Any card with an S-Video out will work. If you are lucky (unlike me) and your TV has an S-Video input then all you need is an S-Video cable, which will more than likely be included with your card. If all you have are the RCA component connectors (the old yellow=video, red=right, white=left), then you will need an adapter. This may or may not beincluded with your card.

If you had a high-definition TV, you could use it for a monitor quite comfortably. If it's a CRT monitor, it would be horrible because the pixels are too blurry, the framerate is too low, and maximum resolution is pitiful. You could play movies and some games just fine though. Back when I had time for games, I used to hook up my PC to a big-screen and play legacy SNES, N64 and PSX games on a big-screen ...that was pretty cool.