The term 'television
set' includes any TV monitor or other video peripheral capable of displaying
PAL or NTSC video signals. Display on PAL/SECAM televisions will be perfect
whereas the display on SECAM televisions will be monochrome. |
Output
device connection explains how to connect your television to your graphics
board. Please note that your television set must be properly connected to
your 3D Prophet II Titanium graphics board in order to gain access to these
options.
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Click on Start/Settings/Control
Panel.
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Double-click on
the Display icon.
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Click on Advanced...
in the Settings tab to access the 3D Prophet II Titanium Properties
dialog box.
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Select the Device
Selection tab.
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Select TV as your output
device and then click on Change Format... to access the corresponding
parameters.

You may also modify
the resolution and color properties. The choices available depend entirely on
the choices available in the standard Windows Display Properties dialog
box.
- Click on Apply in the Device
Selection tab.
- Click on OK in the following
interface message box to switch to your TV screen.

Once the switch has taken place,
Windows will prompt you to accept the changes.
- Click on Yes to accept
or No to return to your PC monitor display.

TV display problems
The following list of questions and
answers aims to resolve any eventual problems with your TV display:
The television has no picture
-
Double-check the connections you have made (PC and TV).
- Check that the TV is switched
on.
- Make sure you have selected the
video input channel on your TV.
The TV image is scrambled
- Check that the TV is switched to PAL (in
SECAM mode the image may well be of lesser quality).
- It may be necessary to select the video input a second time with some televisions
where the video input has already been selected before connecting your graphics
boards.
The TV image flickers or is
illegible
- Decrease the refresh rate of your
graphics board. To do this:
- Click on Start in the
Windows taskbar,
- Select Settings and then
click on Control Panel,
- Double-click on Display
and then click on the Settings tab,
- Click on Advanced.../Adapter
and alter the Refresh rate.
- TV images do not have the same resolutions as PC monitor images. Furthermore,
a television picture is interlaced, which makes it less readable. You are
not advised to try to read your menus in 800x600 or 1024x768, but rather to
select 640x480 together with a large font. To do this, follow these instructions:
- Click on Start in the
Windows taskbar,
- Select Settings and then
click on Control Panel,
- Double-click on Display
and then click on the Settings tab,
- Alter the resolution by adjusting
the Screen area slider, then click on Advanced and select Large
Fonts in the Font Size box.