MediaMVP connectivity

[Grey_Goose]

Could a MediaMVP connect straight to a monitor such as this one?

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...9&sku=320-1578

[salsbst]

Since it has s-video and composite connectors, yes.

However, since s-video and composite cannot carry resolutions higher than 480i, the monitor's support for higher resolutions would be wasted.

[jptaz]

It will look pretty bad too since the LCD has to scale the 720x480i resolution to its native resolution and from my experience on this monitor it does a really bad job of scaling a 640x480P image to 1600x1200. It looks horribly blocky and fuzzy. It is worse when close up, but why pay so much for a device that will not look as good as a larger standard def TV for less money. I know CRTs are bigger, but when it comes to standard definition TV they look way better. A 32" CRT will cost half that price.

Now if you had a full blown PC client I would say go with this monitor in a heart beat and connect it via DVI and scale it with software...this looks very good, I do this with my HDTV and it makes my crappy analog cable look better than directly on the TV via coax.

John