thinking of getting
 

This:

[img]http://www.releasereview.com/data/newsitems/2005/10/images/gateway-FPD2185W.jpg[/img]

http://www.gateway.com/programs/lcd/

Saw in on the FS website for $600 CDN, which to me seems pretty good. $200 off for the next 2 days.

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/prodde ... atid=22335

Current monitor is a 19" CRT, so if I go with this i'll be upgrading to DVI. I think i've heard of probs with getting 1680 x 1050 resolution with AGP cards. I've got an x800 AGP, but hopefully i won't run into any probs. I'd probably want to use a DVI-D cable, right?

The idea is to then turn it into a HDTV as well. I would have to get either a cable box or TV tuner to do this, but I will look into that later.

sweet rock:

schweet. I love my new 19" inch widescreen LCD it pwns my crt

21 CRT here.

Get it dude, it's 21" here's mine:

[img]http://www.shadowness.com/users/46000/45932/mypc.jpg[/img]

i gotz teh media center p.c happy: and the mon rotates 90 degrees it's cool but useless oOo:

i got a 19 inch LCD

sweet, i have a 19" LCD, and would never ever go back to a CRT moniter!!!!

edit: dont get a LCD moniter if it has the glossy screen protection, way too much glare

i have a dvi input on my monitor, should i use it? is it really that much better than vga?

dvi is digital i think, but if remember correctly vga is better, not sure.

DVI is better than VGA

those monitors are

I have a 21" LCD. I hate it because it doesnt have a high resolution, and it doesnt display lines very well. I haven't mapped in so long because of this.

Thats why you cant cheap out on monitors. I always check the max rez when looking because its typically what i'll end up running windows at. Im fairly certain that next year i'll be getting a 21" widescreen. Right now my 19" crt is working fine and i have no real excuse to replace it.

I have a question:

I'm pretty sure I want to go with this monitor. I don't forsee a problem hooking it up to my computer. It will run at 1680X1050 or whatever.

What I want to do is also set it up for TV, infact HDTV.

Now I assume there are a few ways I can do this:

1) Internal tuner in the computer
2) External tuner
3) Cable box

I don't have a cable box and don't really want to go through that whole hassle. I'm content with the channels I get now. I did find this on the gateway website:

[url=http://accessories.gateway.com/AccessoryStore/Consumer+Electronics_381930/Digital+TV_381941/Digital+Television+Accessories_375698/12684996_ProdDetail?http://accessories.gateway.com/AccessoryStore/Consumer+Electronics_381930/Digital+TV_381941/Digital+Television+Accessories_375698/12684996_ProdDetail:acf3d]freraking long link[/url:acf3d]

So it says res up to 1280 x1024 resolution, which i don't think is a standard HDTV resolution, but that would be high res, wouldn't it?

What I'm asking I guess is with that box, can I set up HDTV with the HDTV LCD gateway monitor? looks like it only takes s video and composite, which means that it probably would be totally high def, right?

Anyone know of other high def tuners that I could use for this purpose?

My pc came with a tuner installed, the monitor can handle 1680x1050 even higher, and can have s-video, composite, vga, dvi (best to use for hdtv imo) and mostly everything else. I use media center to watch t.v on it, on the hdtv channels it looks pretty fucking amazing, dvds are awesome too. Oh and if you decide to get a tuner all you have to do is plug in the cable that's it also i suggest getting dscaler, it's a pretty good program to watch t.v on the p.c. and it's free, just google it. Hope that helps