So, a week or so back my power supply crapped out on me quite suddenly and unexpectedly. I bought a new PSU, lugged my big ass tower into the living room, where there was a table and a screw driver, changed everything out, and thought to myself "Self, that's a mighty nice widescreen, HD, flat panel TV you got there, and it would look great playing WoW or SCII. We should hook the computer up to the back of the TV using that handy HDMI cable that came with the TV and test it out." I don't know why I was talking to myself or why I was using the royal we, it may be a symptom of sleep dep, but I dutifully moved the cable modem and router to the living room and hooked my computer back up.
Sadly, it wasn't as awesome as I thought. For one thing, it's really frickin' hard to see anything on a computer monitor that's set to optimum resolution on a 30" TV from 12 feet away. You can kind of fix that by going into Windows 7's settings and changing the text size to Largest, but apparently SCII doesn't like Largest and won't display a mouse cursor, meaning that you have to log off and on every time you want to switch between SCII and any other program that you want to be able to read.
Secondly, I could not, for the life of me, get audio on the TV. Windows 7 was damn sure that the audio was going to a digital device and was working flawlessly, but the TV didn't agree. Now, looking at some of the other HDMI threads, I see that many gaming consoles regularly come with HDMI connections, and I'm pretty sure that when I turn down the volume on my Wii games, I do so with the TV remote, not the console remote, so HDMI must carry both video and audio.
I'm not likely to repeat the experiment of moving my computer to the living room (print size not withstanding, the cable jungle was a nightmare), especially since Netflix sent me my streaming disc for my Wii and I can watch whatever the hell I want without needing my computer out there; but does anyone have any ideas as to why it failed?
The computer is running a Gigabyte GeForce 9800GT with part number GV-N98TSL-1GI, the drivers are up to date, and I have the latest Windows 7 updates. As for the TV, it's a Toshiba 30" but I have no clue the model number and I don't want to go check atm.
Sadly, it wasn't as awesome as I thought. For one thing, it's really frickin' hard to see anything on a computer monitor that's set to optimum resolution on a 30" TV from 12 feet away. You can kind of fix that by going into Windows 7's settings and changing the text size to Largest, but apparently SCII doesn't like Largest and won't display a mouse cursor, meaning that you have to log off and on every time you want to switch between SCII and any other program that you want to be able to read.
Secondly, I could not, for the life of me, get audio on the TV. Windows 7 was damn sure that the audio was going to a digital device and was working flawlessly, but the TV didn't agree. Now, looking at some of the other HDMI threads, I see that many gaming consoles regularly come with HDMI connections, and I'm pretty sure that when I turn down the volume on my Wii games, I do so with the TV remote, not the console remote, so HDMI must carry both video and audio.
I'm not likely to repeat the experiment of moving my computer to the living room (print size not withstanding, the cable jungle was a nightmare), especially since Netflix sent me my streaming disc for my Wii and I can watch whatever the hell I want without needing my computer out there; but does anyone have any ideas as to why it failed?
The computer is running a Gigabyte GeForce 9800GT with part number GV-N98TSL-1GI, the drivers are up to date, and I have the latest Windows 7 updates. As for the TV, it's a Toshiba 30" but I have no clue the model number and I don't want to go check atm.
