New TV

[dilettante]

Canals, huh? So which team is known as the Idaho Gondoliers?

[yereverluvinuncleber]

My friend Algy would watch them.

[sapator]

Problem megasolved!
The TV settings have a "game mode".
You select it, you curse one week of experimentation.

[szlamany]

In the fwiw dept - I just bought a new smart TV and my Surface Pro 7 can connect to it WIRELESSLY! A third display in the room!

[jdc2000]

Options:

Take your laptop and a known good HDMI cable to a store that has a TV you are interested in and see if you can test out connecting it to the TV so you can see what the results are. Note that you may be limited by the onboard graphics adapter.

It is possible to change settings to send the audio to separate speakers, but this can be a pain to set up.

What sort of size are you looking for in a monitor and/or TV, and what is your budget range?

I have one of my computers connected to a TCL 43 inch TV, and there is no issue with the sound, and the picture is excellent. I recently set up a Dell 34 inch widescreen curved monitor for a friend, and the results were also excellent. The sound is set up to go to separate speakers. A video card was required to get the full resolution from the monitor.

[sapator]

I've answered that in the first post.
I don't carte about the laptop as I need the desktop and obviously I cannot drag it to the shops near by.
Anyhow I only missed to see if the sound plays OK and I'm kinda done. Since an old TV monitor can display HDMI fine a new one would not have an issue (hopefully).

[sapator]

In the fwiw dept - I just bought a new smart TV and my Surface Pro 7 can connect to it WIRELESSLY! A third display in the room!

I think both of those TV's I posted have wifi but I don't need that option for now as I'm all desktop in Athens.

[sapator]

OK.
I am using the HDMI cable and when I do a test I get that a device is already using the audio.
I guess I would reset and remove all audio jacks but I got the lazy virus and the fed up virus in a mix so probably tomorrow.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Canals, huh? So which team is known as the Idaho Gondoliers?

It would be alpine gondoliering...if that's a word. The canals out here are either to channel water from reservoirs to crops, or to straighten out the channels draining spring lines. I have no idea why there is a massive spring area near my house. The volume of water coming out of the ground in a fairly small area is substantial. Meanwhile, there's a river and a river valley, between me and the mountains to both the north and the south. Not sure where this water is coming from. Must be some strange geology under me.

[sapator]

So , I got this. https://www.you.gr/tileorasi-ichos/t...ue32t5372cuxxh
It's at the office right now so I should test it when I get home. Hopefully I won't have an unpleasant surprises.
I mistakenly bought a 2 in 1 HDMI station but I just saw that the TV has 2 HDMI ports. So, 10 bucks down the road. I'll bring it to the office at the storage locker.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Of course you'll have an unpleasant surprise: You'll be watching TV.

[sapator]

10% TV - 90% PC Monitor.

[sapator]

FK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Nothing worked for the sound. It was always "the device is been used".
Finally I rolled back the AMD sound driver and it works!
SO FK YOU AMD I'm getting an NVIDIA!!

[Shaggy Hiker]

10% TV - 90% PC Monitor.

Well, then you'll have 10% bad news.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Oops, hadn't read your latest. I guess it'll be 100% bad news.

I do need to caution you about circumventing the censor, but I do feel your pain....aw heck, no I don't, I was laughing and you know it.

Still, it has been a very long time since I've heard any AMD vs Intel noise...anywhere, let alone on this site. I've been mildly puzzled by that. Has AMD fallen out of contention?

[dilettante]

I have a video card in one PC that every so often shows a weird red square somewhere on the desktop or taskbar. Refreshing makes it go away for a long time, but eventually the red square returns somewhere else. It might be memory, but I suspect it's really a bad driver or something because it moves around.

The PC is old enough now that a new card is pointless. It is so old that even though it has a 64-bit CPU I run 32 bit Windows on it because the motherboard maxed out at 4GB. If I ever replaced that I'd replace the video as well.

[sapator]

What Intel has to do with it?
AMD vs Intel is AMD hands down but I was not talking about CPU.
Also, yeah, I was struggling for 2 HOURS! Please allow me my "explosion" .
Now I have another issue that was accidentally solved. Remember the HDMI dual 2 in 1 station? Here is the issue. The TV will go out of signal or diminish the signal when I have TV on and PC on. So the HDMI station has a clicky clicky thing that switch HDMI ports. I connected it and when I'm on TV I click to HDMI 2 that is not functional and I don't lose signal....
Also I'm missing my LG PC Monitor but to be honest the color of the Samsung TV is a LOT better. I can see details I never seen before (waiting for a Shaggy pun here).

[Shaggy Hiker]

Nope, I used it in the other thread. I wouldn't want to add an nvidiaous comment to this thread as well.

[sapator]

nvidiaous . nvidiaous ?!
I'm going to bed a new man now....
O sht... I have to shave...Mmmm dammit....
OK off I go...

[Shaggy Hiker]

Shave? I did that a few times, but that was a couple decades back. Oddly, I still have razors.

[sapator]

Razors are especially useful in this forum, with the stuff I read occasionally.