Hurting the TV?

matt719 · Post by **matt719** » Sat May 24, 2003 8:32 pm

Well, i was very happy to get the RCA out working from an old P3 650MHz laptop to the Sony 36" high deff. tv. Though, i have a little concern. It seems like when the laptop is running at a higher resolution (1024x768) it has to change to 640x*** (duh), but when it does this, the TV flashes a few times and it sorta looks like this change is messing up the TV. I watched a movie on it, worked great, but when i went back to video 1 (cable), i saw a few weird specs of color appear and disappear... this stopped after 5 to 10 seconds, but i want to make sure i'm not going to hurt this $2500+ TV when i could buy a $200 DVD-RAM. Please tell me your thoughts.

blade · Post by **blade** » Tue May 27, 2003 7:41 am

All this happens when the laptop is connected? If so then that's probably caused by the connection changes and the tv adjusting, that shouldn't hurt the tv. I remember when I use to connect my system to a tv, it'd make all kinds of weird flashes too.

Glad you got it working.

matt719 · Post by **matt719** » Tue May 27, 2003 7:58 am

Yeah, it does it when i first use the function + F5 (how you change the display on this laptop), which i do at windows login. Then, it does it when it is logging in, which i assume is because login screen runs at different resoltuon / frequency. I'm glad to hear you don't think there is a problem. Maybe i'll use my old TV to do this, just to be safe.