scott wrote:
>> Most *new* TVs are widescreen. (Indeed, it is apparently impossible to 
>> buy one that isn't.) Which is most perplexing, because there are no TV 
>> signals broadcast in widescreen,
> 
> Huh? I went to radiotimes.co.uk and clicked on about 20 shows today on 
> BBC1,2 and ITV, and *ALL* were widescreen.  I couldn't be bothered to 
> look longer for non-widescreen shows.  What are you watching?

Films tend to be widescreen, but little else. (E.g., all the adverts 
[not that we care], the news and weather, most of the game shows me mum 
insists on watching.)

Personally, I just avoid watching TV at all. Watching the adverts is 
like being on a bad acid trip (I'm not kidding!), and most of the 
programs are rubbish these days anyway...

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scott wrote:

> Given that almost no new laptops seem to be coming with DVI sockets 
> (compared to desktop PCs which have had them for ages), I don't see this 
> matter changing in the near future.

Almost unbelievably, my laptop has a HDMI output. (!)

I'm not sure how you use it, mind you...

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Almost unbelievably, my laptop has a HDMI output. (!)
> I'm not sure how you use it, mind you...

You plug it into an HDMI input?

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On 28-4-2009 0:00, Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Almost unbelievably, my laptop has a HDMI output. (!)
>> I'm not sure how you use it, mind you...
> 
> You plug it into an HDMI input?
> 
I think you might want to use a cable to connect the two, but may be I 
am old fashioned.

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On 4/27/2009 1:36 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Films tend to be widescreen, but little else. (E.g., all the adverts
> [not that we care], the news and weather, most of the game shows me mum
> insists on watching.)

I've seen many shows on TV lately in widescreen formats.  Some of them, 
though, seem to be some sort of compromise halfway between 4:3 and 16:9, 
so I'm not sure what the real aspect ratio of those is.

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Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Almost unbelievably, my laptop has a HDMI output. (!)
>> I'm not sure how you use it, mind you...
> 
> You plug it into an HDMI input?

I meant more that I'm not sure how to make it output a video signal on 
that port.

...of course, maybe it's not really HDMI, just normal DVI. But the 
product documentation claims it's HDMI.

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> Films tend to be widescreen, but little else. (E.g., all the adverts [not 
> that we care], the news and weather, most of the game shows me mum insists 
> on watching.)

Ermm, what TV signal do you receive?  From radiotimes.co.uk for this 
evening:

18:00 News, widescreen
18:30 Regional news, widescreen
19:00 The One Show, widescreen
19:30 EastEnders, widescreen
20:00 Holby City, widescreen

or perhaps some sport on BBC2?

19:00 Snooker, widescreen
20:00 Speaker, widescreen
21:00 Cruickshank on Kew, widescreen

or football on ITV?

19:30 CHampions League, widescreen
22:00 ITV News at Ten and WEATHER, widescreen

It seems to me like *every* program is widescreen.

> Personally, I just avoid watching TV at all. Watching the adverts is like 
> being on a bad acid trip (I'm not kidding!), and most of the programs are 
> rubbish these days anyway...

I tend to mostly watch sport and the news, not much else, luckily all of 
that is widescreen so I never notice any problem :-)

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> I meant more that I'm not sure how to make it output a video signal on 
> that port.

Usually something like Fn+F5 (there should be a little icon next to the 
key).  Or just go to display properties and tell it to output on both 
monitors.

> ...of course, maybe it's not really HDMI, just normal DVI. But the product 
> documentation claims it's HDMI.

The video signal is electrically the same, just different connectors on the 
end.  You can buy a cheap cable with an HDMI plug on one end and a DVI plug 
on the other end if you want to connect between things (I have this to 
connect my PC with DVI output to the TV with HDMI input).

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scott wrote:
>> Films tend to be widescreen, but little else. (E.g., all the adverts 
>> [not that we care], the news and weather, most of the game shows me 
>> mum insists on watching.)
> 
> Ermm, what TV signal do you receive?  From radiotimes.co.uk for this 
> evening:
> 
> 18:00 News, widescreen
> 18:30 Regional news, widescreen
> 19:00 The One Show, widescreen
> 19:30 EastEnders, widescreen
> 20:00 Holby City, widescreen
> 
> or perhaps some sport on BBC2?
> 
> 19:00 Snooker, widescreen
> 20:00 Speaker, widescreen
> 21:00 Cruickshank on Kew, widescreen
> 
> or football on ITV?
> 
> 19:30 CHampions League, widescreen
> 22:00 ITV News at Ten and WEATHER, widescreen
> 
> It seems to me like *every* program is widescreen.

Interesting. I *watched* the snooker, and it didn't appear to be in 
widescreen. (Or maybe that's just FreeSat?)

>> Personally, I just avoid watching TV at all. Watching the adverts is 
>> like being on a bad acid trip (I'm not kidding!), and most of the 
>> programs are rubbish these days anyway...
> 
> I tend to mostly watch sport and the news, not much else, luckily all of 
> that is widescreen so I never notice any problem :-)

There seems to be a great lack of the sciency type of programs I like 
these days. We used to have great shows like Rough Science, Scrapheap 
Challenge, Local Heroes, Horizon, BBC Wildlife, etc. Now there's just 
Brainiac... which is rather lame.

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>> I meant more that I'm not sure how to make it output a video signal on 
>> that port.
> 
> Usually something like Fn+F5 (there should be a little icon next to the 
> key).  Or just go to display properties and tell it to output on both 
> monitors.

Yeah, that's how the VGA output usually works. (I have that also, BTW.)

>> ...of course, maybe it's not really HDMI, just normal DVI. But the 
>> product documentation claims it's HDMI.
> 
> The video signal is electrically the same, just different connectors on 
> the end.  You can buy a cheap cable with an HDMI plug on one end and a 
> DVI plug on the other end if you want to connect between things (I have 
> this to connect my PC with DVI output to the TV with HDMI input).

Yeah, but I meant, HDMI is encrypted. I'm not sure whether the laptop 
really supports generating an encrypted video signal, and if so, from 
*what*...?

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