[bonesmccoy]

LCD projectors are great for use with DVD's loaded and playing via WinDVD on WindowsXP.

The anti-MSFT whackos here want to spend $10,000-$15,000 to do what we do with $2000.

I guess if you want to part with that much cash you can buy "their" solution.

If you want to watch DVD's in widescreen, hook the VGA output from your PC box to your standard LCD projector. Make sure there are Microsoft drivers for the projector (so, don't spend time jury-rigging...just buy a projector).

Now, you have a system that can do both projection of powerpoint presentations and video files.

To do TV projection, you need a Windows Media Center box. The HP, Gateway, and Alien boxes all have TV tuner cards.

It sounds like the cards won't let you project High Def TV yet. I haven't scoped out the cards yet, but Hauppage must have a HighDef card in work.

If not, no big deal. After all, how much High-Def TV can really be under production and broadcast. At this point, not much.

If you really want to spend $10,000 for a "HDTV" plasma, go ahead.

If you want a spend $2000 for the LCD Projector, you'll get higher resolution than plasmaHDTV and you'll be portable for work.

[Hunble]

I understood how to use a projection system to project computer video upon a wall. Outstanding idea, and I thank you for telling us about that.

I was asking a even more basic question. How can I display HDTV on my computer screen?

If I can not display HDTV on my computer monitor, then any projection setup would be no better.

Thanks, until you started this thread, I never considered using an SVGA projection screen for television viewing. I have used them often for company presentations of Power Point charts, but never made that mental leap.

Probably, because nobody has ever shown me how I can display HDTV on my computer screen.