PC on TV

Joes2Silly · Post by **Joes2Silly** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:29 pm

my family has gotten into lost(the TV show), but we missed like seven episodes on the second season. So my sisters bofriend got the episodes but they can only be played on a pc. Is there some way to hook a PC up to a TV

Post by **bicostp** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:33 pm

Some video cards have TV-Out.

But you should look for what is called a PC-TV bridge. It takes the VGA connector and converts the signal into S-Video or Composite.

Lost is a half-hour show, right? He could burn the episodes to a Video CD, if your DVD player supports it.

Or burn them to DVD, if his PC is equipped with a DVD burner.

Joes2Silly · Post by **Joes2Silly** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:37 pm

actually the files are on my sisters ipod, and yes our PC has a DVD burner but I need some DVD-Rs to burn the episodes

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:41 pm

doesn't the iPod video have TV-Out? I know the photo ones do, and I would think they would add that into the video ones as well.

Post by **bicostp** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 4:01 pm

Joes2Silly wrote:actually the files are on my sisters ipod, and yes our PC has a DVD burner but I need some DVD-Rs to burn the episodes

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Post by **Sparkfist** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:42 pm

There are video cards that offer both cable out and S-Video (i.e. ATI all-in-wonder cards). You can burn the videos to a DVD. Be sure that you transcode the video to MPEG1 or MPEG2, DVD players will not play any other format.

To help on that go to doom9.org. Here are the guides, they list the software needed and all the software they have in the guides are free (99.9% of the time).

Good luck.

P.S. Last I saw Offic Max was selling DVD+/-R 100 spindle for $20.

MaDnEsS · Post by **MaDnEsS** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:29 pm

i saw a vga to AV converter at EB games before except there like 50 bucks