On Saturday 16 March 2002 10:57 pm, Brian Marr wrote:
I am trying to get my head around this. Naturally if you are watching TV you can sit back from the set. I am not sure if you can do this while surfing the net. Is it a matter of having a large monitor and changing the resolution so that text is larger ? Unfortunately I am not in a position to buy projectors etc.
Hauppauge cards like the WinTV will work fine - SuSE sets them up automatically, and installs kwintv for you too. As regards using a monitor instead of a TV, I don't know whether this will work. If you increase the resolution so that the text is visible from farther away, won't you have a lot of crossways scrolling to do? That was one of the reasons the WebTV standard was put together, to try to display webpages on lower-res TVs, but it hasn't really taken off. Basically, TVs are for viewing from 5 or 6 feet away, and monitors from 5 or 6 inches. Plus of course a good monitor will cost more than a good TV of the same size. I suppose what you might do is buy a pair of opera-glasses, and view the screen through those when you're on the web ..... :-) Seriously, though, we probably need to wait for cheap plasma screens, if those ever see the light of day. Best wishes Kevin