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I am just curious. I have seen people talking about their setups and connecting their PC's to their big screen TV's. If it's possible, what is required to accomplish it - any special hardware, connections on the PC as well as on TVs ?

Hi all, There was another thread on someone else doing this yesterday but I couldn't find it to add to it so I thought I'd start my own. So, yesterday my center monitor died and, to make a long story short, I opted to replace my 3x21" monitors and TH2Go with an older 1080P 42" HDTV 60hz. I'd had the 3 monitor setup for many years and was very happy with it. Here are the highlights: I always ran my sim in windowed mode, with all of the middle screen and half of each of the right and left so I was using about 2400 pixels by 1024. With the new monitor I would have 1920x1280...less pixels horizontal and more vertical...and all of the pixels would be a lot bigger. The first look of my sim on 42" was mind bending. First, the cockpit made me feel like I was in a cockpit. The gauges were life-sized and the dash was big in front of my face. Flying the Turbine Duke and looking at the left engine I had a real sense for how big that sucker is...it is big. On the other hand I lost a bit of peripheral vision (about 10%) on both sides. Looking outside was horror. The graphics stunk bad. While it was fine on 21" displays, on the much taller display it was all readily apparent...lots of shimmer, blurries, colors all wrong...it was ugly and I quickly became worried that this just might not work. I changed to a different ENB Palette and spent some time tuning the color of the monitor. The TV was a good 5-6 years old and it had been set up to be a TV. Got that fixed. Better. I then applied some settings from this thread ( http://forum.avsim.net/topic/411015-the-dreaded-blurries/ ) and began tweaking and tuning as I tried out the Duke, Flight1 Mustang and PMDG J41 at Orbx KSEA, FlyTampa Tampa, FlightBeam KIAD and Megascenery SoCal...tough tests but realistic. At the end of it the graphics were far better, not quite as sharp as they were on the smaller screens but, as I said, the pixels were bigger. Here's what my impression of flying with this kind of setup is As mentioned, I do get much more of a feel for being in a cockpit. It's the right size and it's easy to imagine the rest of the cockpit around me. I get a better feel for the width of the runway and my speed going down the runway. Taking off at Tampa in the Duke, I can see the cars going down the freeway (never really saw them before) as I climb and get a sense of my speed relative to them...very, very cool. I see things...ground features, etc that I didn't know were there despite the fact that I've flown over these same areas tons and tons of times. I get better visibility in turns in the closed traffic patterns. When I am rolling out toward the runway I can look up higher and get a glimpse of where I am, quicker. Also, after working on my graphics settings I pick up on visual navigation spots quicker. Weather looks bigger and more real. After all the tweaking I can run full screen and get 30 fps in all my testing. Running windowed full screen I get about 24-25. If I pull the top down on the window 1 inch, I get back up to 28-29 (go figure that). I do want to use windowed so that I can use one of the old monitors I cannibalized to see my flight path, airport information and approach plates. If I run full screen (not windowed) that side screen goes black. Bottom line: It's going to take some getting used to...but I think it's going to work. It's only been a day. Not sure it's for everyone. The bigger screen with bigger pixels is less forgiving than smaller displays. The realistic size of everything is amazing. I'm hoping I can do some more tweaking to get a few more FPS and run full screen windowed. Gregg