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To: Pigboy who wrote (71748)	1/20/1999 11:49:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

pigboy - Re: ". I have a TV across the room and was wondering what exactly I needed to connect my PC (DVD) to it to watch DVD's on there also? " DO you have a separate DVD hardware card? If so, check to see if it has NTSC out - an RG 59 (?) connector - or a set of 3 RCA plugs labeled Video OUT (usually yellow) Audio Out Right (Red) and Audio Out Left (white). Let me know what you find before we proceed. Paul

To: Pigboy who wrote (71748)	1/21/1999 2:09:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

My newer 400 PII is working great! Am currently watching the DVD 'DUNE' which I just purchased. It's great because I can put a small pic in the upper right of the monitor and watch the weird flick while I am skipping around the Internet. I have a TV across the room and was wondering what exactly I needed to connect my PC (DVD) to it to watch DVD's on there also? I believe it is probably a simple item so forgive me in advance if its a dumb q. I have the Creative Labs DxR2 (I think it's called) kit. It has a video passthru cable for watching on the monitor and a multi-output with a weird cable that splits into both a normal composite out and an S-video out. You get normal stereo sound from your speaker out on your sound card, or maybe that's my All-In-Wonder Pro and the sound comes out of the multi-output cable. Too many cables behind my PC. It also has a Dolby Digital signal that you can plug into a Dolby Digital (AC-3) Decoder, if you have one, for full 5.1 channel surround. FWIU the Dolby cable should ideally be less then six feet but you can probably get away with longer. If you're doing stereo sound then just get a shielded cable to run across the room. Make sure your video cable is a good, shielded one if you really are stretching it "across the room". If you're in different rooms then http:/www.x10.com/ has a "Big Picture" unit that allows you to transmit the video and stereo at 1.2 GHz up to 100 feet to a receiver and has a mouse remote so you can control the player software. I bought this for $99 because my computer is upstairs and almost complete on the other side of the house. I can't really heartily recommend it because microwave ovens screw up both the picture and sound royally.

To: Pigboy who wrote (71748)	1/21/1999 10:57:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "Also, does anyone have 2 monitors connected to their PC? Is it easy to do that with Win98 (ie, dont need anything but another monitor?) " I have it on one of my computers running Win98. Obviously you need 2 monitors but you also need 2 PCI or 1 PCI & 1 AGP video card. It works quite well. I understand you can have as many as 8 cards/monitors, assuming you had that many PCI slots. That way you can really keep in touch with all the action! EP

To: Pigboy who wrote (71748)	1/21/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

In addition to the way Elmer implemented multiple monitor support, there is a company called Appian that sells video cards that support 2 or 4 monitors off one card, so you can do this even if you don't have any extra slots by replacing your existing video card. You can check their products out at www.appiangraphics.com. Regards, John PS - As far as 'easy to do', well, the installation might be a breeze, or you might spend hours with various tech support groups trying to get it to work. In either case, you have to open up your machine, and also tweak WIN98 display settings. Appian has a nice package called Hydravision that makes it a bit easier...