Display Aquarium on a TV screen

Beagle1 · 06-12-2003, 09:25 PM

I would like to find out how to display Aquarium on a large TV as we are having a party with a tropical theme and desperately need some fishes for atmosphere.

feldon34 · 06-12-2003, 10:38 PM

Can you tell us more about your computer and your TV?

If it is a regular TV (not an HDTV), then you would use an S-Video or regular video cable from the computer to the TV, provided your computer as S-Video or Video outputs on the back.

Also be aware that long (12+ foot) S-Video cables can be quite expensive.

Socrates · 06-13-2003, 12:11 AM

I was too cheap to buy video cables. Plus I have a VCR hooked up to my TV out ports so that I can output video to VHS tape.

So my answer to sending my video across the room to the TV was a 20' piece of coax from the VCR to the TV. This was a cable I already had so the whole thing cost me nothing.

As long as I set MA or GA to 640x480 or 800x600 it looks decent on the TV. There is some minor edge bending but that happens on both of my TV's even when I dragged them within cable range of the computer.

Beagle1 · 06-13-2003, 11:25 AM

Thanks, Morgan and Socrates. It sounds so straightforward! And the manual of the laptop I plan to use says it has a video port. (so that's what that funny looking outlet is :-) )

I'll post next week to let you know how it worked.

Tornado Tom · 06-24-2003, 10:36 PM

Woe! Looks Too Cool! :>/

SunKing · 06-26-2003, 05:38 AM

Check out this thread (scroll down). There's a couple nice pics of SereneScreen on big TV's.

Beagle1 · 06-26-2003, 09:20 AM

Thanks, Sunking. It's awesome.

Digital Lungfish · 06-28-2003, 03:34 AM

Looks good Socrates, I've got that exact same model and size Sony Trinitron.

Socrates · 06-28-2003, 04:59 AM

The Sony pictured actually just came to me as a hand me down a few months ago. I had a GE there for years.

I was so happy with the Sony, that the old faithful GE went up stairs after sitting on the floor in the living room all that time. The DAY that I finally dragged the GE upstairs, the Sony developed a hideously loud electrical whine!!!! now I have to do all that schleping on the stairs again

Digital Lungfish · 06-30-2003, 09:51 PM

Ugh, well that isn't good.

06-12-2003, 09:25 PM	#1
Beagle1 Registered Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Marin County CA Posts: 6	Display Aquarium on a TV screen I would like to find out how to display Aquarium on a large TV as we are having a party with a tropical theme and desperately need some fishes for atmosphere. Beagle1

06-12-2003, 10:38 PM	#2
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,938	Can you tell us more about your computer and your TV? If it is a regular TV (not an HDTV), then you would use an S-Video or regular video cable from the computer to the TV, provided your computer as S-Video or Video outputs on the back. Also be aware that long (12+ foot) S-Video cables can be quite expensive. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

06-13-2003, 11:25 AM	#4
Beagle1 Registered Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Marin County CA Posts: 6	Thanks, Morgan and Socrates. It sounds so straightforward! And the manual of the laptop I plan to use says it has a video port. (so that's what that funny looking outlet is :-) ) I'll post next week to let you know how it worked. Beagle1

06-24-2003, 10:36 PM	#5
Tornado Tom Tommy Turtle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Edmonton, AB, CA Posts: 78	Woe! Looks Too Cool! :>/ 14 Little Fish Needs A New Larger Aquarium!

06-26-2003, 05:38 AM	#6
SunKing Registered Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 238	Display SereneScreen on HDTV Check out this thread (scroll down). There's a couple nice pics of SereneScreen on big TV's. My humble Homepage

06-26-2003, 09:20 AM	#7
Beagle1 Registered Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Marin County CA Posts: 6	Thanks, Sunking. It's awesome. Beagle1

06-28-2003, 03:34 AM	#8
Digital Lungfish Obey the toad! Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: San Diego, California Posts: 2,557	Looks good Socrates, I've got that exact same model and size Sony Trinitron. Steve www.tron-sector.com - www.badcartridge.com - www.classicgaming.com - www.dinofish.com Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday...

06-28-2003, 04:59 AM	#9
Socrates Sage Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: West Hills, CA Posts: 1,529	The Sony pictured actually just came to me as a hand me down a few months ago. I had a GE there for years. I was so happy with the Sony, that the old faithful GE went up stairs after sitting on the floor in the living room all that time. The DAY that I finally dragged the GE upstairs, the Sony developed a hideously loud electrical whine!!!! now I have to do all that schleping on the stairs again Bat rays? We don't need no stinking bat rays!

06-30-2003, 09:51 PM	#10
Digital Lungfish Obey the toad! Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: San Diego, California Posts: 2,557	Ugh, well that isn't good. Steve www.tron-sector.com - www.badcartridge.com - www.classicgaming.com - www.dinofish.com Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday...