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[Melotron]

Greetings.

I have a question about Media Center that I cant find any where on the forum.
Is it possible to run MC on a tv only ?

I am building a media computer and are looking for a good program where I don't need to have a monitor next to the tv to be able to watch the movies.

//Melotron

[JimH]

Yes, it is.  We have this setup in our conference room.  We use an ATI All in Wonder Card.

The trickiest part is making sure your TV has the same connectors as your Video card. 

A high definition TV is probably a requirement.  Analog TV's provide a poor picture.

[glynor]

I do as well.  I use the S-Video out port on my ATI AIW X800XT as my only monitor.  It is not a high-def TV (but it is a big 37" flat tube screen one).

I turned on Large Fonts in Windows XP, and you can manually modify the font size in MC to make the fonts more legible.  It works quite well.

For those rare times when I really need to see something clearly that can't easily be made "bigger", I just use either the Windows XP Magnifyer tool (Start --> Accessories --> Accessibility) or I VNC into the machine from another computer.