Below you can see my TV on the left with Windows media player playing and my live desktop on the right.
To customize my Desktop I used RocketDock and Desktop Sidebar.
S-Video CableI was a little bored today and now that my son joined the Navy and moved out I have his old bedroom as my computer room. I have a television about 5 feet away from the computer and it has an S Video jack so today I hooked the TV up to the Computer's video card S-Video out to use it as a second monitor, It was very easy to do. The whole thing took me about 10 minutes and only required an S-Video Cable and now I am watching the TV show Sliders from VeohTV on the TV and typing this on the computer at the same time. This is nice. I wish I would have done it years ago. The TV shows my desktop background when I have it set to the S-video input and I can drag any window on my desktop over to the TV to view. The picture on the TV is Great...
The Primary monitor is set to 1152-864 Screen Resolution and 32 bit Color.
The Second Monitor, or in this case my TV set is set to 800-600 Screen Resolution and 32 bit color.
You also might want to read "Make the Most of Your Dual Monitors" at lifehacker for more info and tips.
2 comments:
Nice work. I've done something similar with my mac mini and lately have been finding links on www.sidereel.com - more links and more flexibility for full screen options.
good luck.
Thanks. Do you have any pictures of your set-up? I checked out sidereel a little last night. I will look at it more today.
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