This is the sort of discovery that will make anyone in the audience under the age of 24 go, "Well, duh."I was moving some papers around the other night, and uncovered the manual that came with the "new" flat-screen TV. It's a very rudimentary manual-- most of the relevant info is online, things being what they are these days-- but it does have all of the "How to Hook Various Things Up To Your New TV" information. And one of those "things" was "Your PC."
I am old enough, and our previous TV was old enough, that I have to admit the possibility simply never occurred to me. The old TV just had a coax and some component video inputs, after all. Piping a computer into that would clearly have been more trouble than it was worth. But the new TV has HDMI inputs, and... "Dear? Can I borrow your laptop for a moment?"
Roughly 10 seconds later, we have a 40+" high-def computer monitor. I have to admit, I am now sorely tempted to pick up a wireless keyboard/mouse combo, haul the tower downstairs, and see what it's like to play Borderlands 2 on the Big Screen...
Someone I did a postdoc with told me that when he was in grad school he checked out a digital projector from his school and hooked it up to his computer to play video games on a really big screen....
ReplyDeleteThere's a story going around (Facebook, I think) about a dad who rented a movie theater for his son's 13th birthday, and the kid and his friends played video games on the big screen. It'd be pretty hard to top that.
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