PC Monitors Doing HD?

Was tinkering with my monitor settings and noticed it has a 'support' for HDTV at 720p or 1080i.

Problem it says if it exceeds its EDID limits (***?) it may damage the monitor.

So I want to know; how can I tell what resultions, if any, can my monitor pull of HDTV or what this thing is talking about?

Thank you very much.



Samsung 710N-2 BLACK SyncMaster 17in Analog LCD Monitor

 

Now that ya mention it, it was actually a feature of my video card. Stupid me, forgot the monitor and video card are independent of each other

So I'll just work on the assumption it won't do HD

 

HD comes in many flavors 780i, 780p, 1080i, 1080p.

Interestingly enough DVD is only able to do 480i and some do 480p

PCs will be incorporated into the home theater very soon because they are the only thing that will do 1080p.

Blue lazer DVDs are around the corner also but it looks like the PC will be easier to get programing for.

The most succesful way to view 1080i or 1080p on a desktop is to use a video card with 256 of onboard RAM, a DVI output, a monitor with DVI, input.

Using RGB requires the PC to break the signal down to analog then the monitor has to upconvert back to digital again.

FYI, A raw (uncompressed) 1080i broadcast stream is 1.5 GB per second!
Thats why compression is so important plus a analog RGB cable would be hard pressed to do that.
The satellite people are already changing over to mpeg4 compression to carry the additional bandwidth.

Some really cool reading and sample programing here.

Microsoft is on the forefront of the 1080p standard. They want a Windows Media Center box in every home theater.

 

PRetty cool site. So that leads me to assume that PC Monitors can do/emulate HD?

I guess the core of my question now that I'm not posting at 2AM, is this:

I'll be getting the Xbox360 and the HD-VGA cables that come with it. If I set the Xbox to play the games in High Def, my monitor should be able to run it in that setting, correct?

 

I'm no expert but i believe you need a monitor that will accept digital input to
get the HDTV.
I have a large (32in) HDTV/PC monitor but the PC resolution was so bad that i
went back to my normal PC monitor and just use the big one for watching
digital TV.

Now i'm looking for a 20/24 in monitor that can handle a high resolution and
has a fast response time.....

savagcl

 

PCs will do High Def Resolution for breakfast.
The frame rate is the challange. It takes a hefty CPU, GPU, and decent monitor.
Any CRT that is a flat tube should be new enough to do it.

My Monitor (Dell UltraSharp 2001FP Flat Panel) and Video card ATI 9500 works awsome on 1080p with res set at 1024 x 768 W/ a refresh of 75 hertz.

 

That's cool to know.

According to that MS site, I far exceed the required specs. (AMD 2.2Ghz 3200+, 1.7GB RAM, Radeon 9600 XT 256MB)

Only problem is I need an audio codec that I download from the link they provide and it keeps giving me an error.

I'm not to worried about it, just wanted to make sure my PC could do XB360 HD.

 

Scott,

Thanks for clarifying that.

savagcl