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Part One, communicates my experience, and reason for posting material about this subject. Part Two I will give some possibly needed extra 411, that I started with before I was looking for a High Quality HDTV, and some that I gained from personal experience that relates to the subject.
First if you want to connect your PC to a High Quality HDTV, you will need an HDCP compliant graphics card with DVI-D, DVI-I, HDMI, or Mini HDMI outputs. For performance sake I recommend a PC that has both a multi-core CPU and GPU (most likely if your graphics card meets the previously mentioned requirements, it will already be multi-core)! The two best brands to work with are ATI (now bought out by AMD) or NVIDIA.
For your moneys worth concerning price per performance, I recommend a desktop PC, but if you insist on a notebook/laptop, the same applies, you will most likely need to hook it up to a High Quality HDTV, and you will need the same outputs.
Now most HDTVs show the best when set to display in either resolution, 1280x720 (720p), or 1920x1080 (1080p). If you want to set your PC to display in any other resolutions correctly, you need to use the NVIDA Control Panel (NCP), click on "Adjust Desktop Size and Position," make sure you have the tab called "Scaling" chosen, if not click on the "Scaling" tab, then click on the small drop down menu labeled "Perform Scaling On:," then chose "GPU."
Almost every new application or game (Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Devil May Cry 4) is made to display in 720p or 1080p resolution, many older games do also, but not all. Other games for example Medal of Honor: Allied Assault displays in 1280x1024 or 1600x1200 High Quality HD correctly, by having "Perform scaling on:" "GPU," selected in the NVIDIA Control Panel.
I am not sure if AMD Catalyst Control Center has an option for this but information can be found on http://www.amd.com
I hope this helps. Like I said before my PC does look Amazing!
Information not from personal experience that I obtained was from:
Mike Meyers, All In One,A+ Certification, Exam Guide Fourth Edition, Mc Graw Hill, 2002.
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