REALLY stupid question ... feel free to flame me without mercy ...

[Quadzilla]

OK, this is not likely the best place to ask this, but it is ALMOST relevant ... and I doubt if it breaks any forum rules, so here goes:

I have a small STEREO (for shame) system in my home office ... a Tandberg 2025 Receiver, Dunlavy SC1 Speakers, and a (2-channel) Panasonic DVD-S47S DVD-Audio/CD player. I NEVER use my PC for music, but I wish I could SOMETIMES use the monitor to access disk menus to choose the HiRez Stereo tracks on DVD-Audio disks.

My STUPID question is this ... the nVidia GeForce video graphics card in my PC has an S-Video connection (as well as the usual video monitor connector), but I have no idea if it is an input or an output. There is no marking that I can see. Does anyone have a best guess, or is there something I should look for on the card that will tell me? I suppose I could just TRY it, but I don't know if sending a video signal to an output will damage something.

So, computer gurus, can anyone help? Happy New Year, Mike.

 

[spenceo]

It's most likely an output. The easiest way to do what you want is to get a inexpensive tuner card. They will have a coax input and usual a Left, Right and composite video input. BTW the only stupid question is the one unasked.

Spence

 

[Quadzilla]

It's most likely an output. The easiest way to do what you want is to get a inexpensive tuner card. They will have a coax input and usual a Left, Right and composite video input. BTW the only stupid question is the one unasked.

Spence

Thanks Spence. I suspected as much, but I was hoping. Your tuner card idea is a good one, but unfortunately I have run out of card slots on my motherboard. I have been using the video input and monitor screen on my Sony Hi-8 camcorder, but my eyesight is not what it used to be. Thanks for the reply. Mike.

 

[winopener]

A cheap 5.5 inch portable monitor could do without trashing your current pc configuration and it's cheaper than a video/in card.

 

[DennisMabry]

A cheap 5.5 inch portable monitor could do without trashing your current pc configuration and it's cheaper than a video/in card.

Do you have any suggestions or links to this type of monitor? I need one of these too!