Can you play a DVD on an HDTV using a PC and HDMI cable?
Jonathan Y asked:
We recently bought an HDTV and I’m going to buy an HDMI cable. Do we need to buy an upconverter for watching movies, or could we use one of our laptops instead, which both have DVD players? Will a PC have lesser quality than watching the movie through an upconverter? Are there any special things we’d need to do to set the resolution with the PC? Thanks!
We recently bought an HDTV and I’m going to buy an HDMI cable. Do we need to buy an upconverter for watching movies, or could we use one of our laptops instead, which both have DVD players? Will a PC have lesser quality than watching the movie through an upconverter? Are there any special things we’d need to do to set the resolution with the PC? Thanks!
if you play a movie from your pc to your TV, you won’t have any sound unless you have the tv adapter, which cost around $100. Quality will be the same, just no sound.
actually it is called a tv tuner, this allows you to have sound when you play it through your tv.
You will get the best picture by getting a DVI cable and connecting a DVI-to-HDMI adapter to hook it up to your tv, you will also need to connect the sound to speakers or to a receiver seperately.
Set your screen resolution to 1280×720 which equals 720p.
And I find that watching with a pc on a HDMI connection gives better quality than an upconverting dvd player if you are using a program like windvd or something….very smooth picture.