Resolved VGI interface - PC to TV -does it work both ways?

Hi,
I am thinking about upgrading my computer screen to a 28" widescreen LCD TV.

The question is, I know that the comms work from PC to TV, but does it work the other way round? or Can I record a TV program from the TV onto my PC hard drive?

Thanks in advance, Terry

 

Remember first that TVs are receivers, not transmitters so it depends on your TV, but I doubt it has the necessary outputs. So I agree with Pete. You need a TV signal "source" (antenna or cable box) to run the signal to your computer. You probably would be better off to split the video signal before it goes to your TV and run one side to the TV and one to your computer. That said, your computer will still need the proper video input connections and that is not likely unless your computer has a TV tuner already.

Alternatively, if your computer has a tuner card, you can run the video source to the computer first, then connect the new TV to the computer's graphics outputs.

 

Sorry Tony but the answer is likely no. He wants to take a signal from the TV and route it to the computer. Your link requires a TV Tuner card in the computer, or as noted in the 2nd option, an antenna or cable box or wall cable connection. And WMC requires a video source too. TVs don't typically provide a "source" (output) for other devices (except maybe audio), but instead require a video source (input).

 

Well, I don't know how you can record "from the TV" unless it is by signal - which is another word for the video "feed ", as in the electrical data source from an antenna, cable, or some video recording device - other than sticking a video camera in front of the TV and recording off the screen.

Not in my experience. All, of course have video in, typically from several source, and many have audio out to run to a HT system, but I beg to differ about most TVs providing a video output. Why would they? The TV is the monitor, not source. Some TVs might, but in looking at the specs of my new 46" LCD Samsung, and my two smaller TVs, a Vizio 24" and a Samsung 24 ", none have video outputs, except a bypass F-type connector for the antenna input which would require a Tuner Card in the PC, as suggested by Pete.

I guess we won't know the correct solution until we learn the exact model of the TV, and it's connections.

 

Bill, I'm siding with Tony on this.

Some (not all) modern TV's also provide video out, of the three video interfaces on my TV 1 (composite Video/Audio) is input only 1 of the rear AV (euroscart) sockets is also input only but the other is input/output. BTW my TV is far from new.

The simplest solution is however to install a tuner card in the computer itself.

 

ok, many thanks guys. I think I may just stick to recording via my sky hd box and PVR to DVD. I know how that works.

I also see that I would be best off in installing a TV card, and then just upgrade my monitor.

BTW to you peoples who assumed - I am a lady Terry not a man Terry. Think I may have to change how I spell my name, I keep on getting sex changes!

 

It has been 20 years since I lived in the UK so I must admit, I don't know what is standard now. But in the US, most TVs do not provide a video out - as I said above, some TVs might, but don't typically.

In any event, it does little to argue about what might be when we still don't know the model number or capabilities of that particular TV, or even what inputs his graphics card accepts.