Actually I have a few questions, 1 how do I get a better picture from the svga output on my video card? The pic is kinda fuzzy on 27" tv Is is possible to get a clear pic with a more expensive svga cable. I don't get it though the svga cable i'm using has a great pic with my dvd player. 2. Can I duplicate the pic on the tv to be the same as the monitor? The only options are spaning the screen across multiple monitors or assigning the tv as primary monitor. This sucks as I don't want the svga as a primary monitor I just want the same screen on both. Video card is nvidia 64mb pci. Only got it cause it was extremely cheap. I plan on getting at least a 128mb ddr 8x agp w/dvi & tv out down the road but want good tv out pic. Also possibly tv in or video capture but got to work with what I got now. Also I have never installed a agp card before. I already have the pci card installed do I need to uninstall it and it's driver to make a new agp card the primary video source?

You are never going to get as good a quality on you TV as you do on a VDU from a SVGA out put. A TV screens are designed differently, different resolutions, dot pitch and a TV screen is interlaced. The only way you are going to get good quality on a TV is with a video card with a TV Out socket. Stuart

This will likely bore hell out of you but televisions use an interlacing technique where the screen is painted in two passes, every other line at a time. On the first pass, only the odd scan lines (1, 3, 5, ...) are painted. Then, the beam resets to the top, and the even scan lines (2, 4, 6, ...) are painted. Each pass is called a "field," and two fields combined are called a frame. In NTSC there are 60 fields (30 frames) painted per second, and in PAL TV systems there are 50 fields (25 frames) painted every second (movie film runs at 24fps, by the way). Any slower than that, and most people will begin to notice image flickering. When computers came along, both the quality of the phosphors and that of the electronics had improved to the point where interlacing wasn't necessary, but since most computer work involves lots of text, resolutions had to be increased. Where a typical TV set runs at about 13.5kHz horizontal refresh at a 25 to 30Hz vertical refresh rate, most computer monitors are capable of drawing a screen at over 60kHz horizontal refresh at an 85Hz vertical refresh rate. In other words, a tv is a crappy display compared to your monitor. Skip