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Re: Display to TV

From Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Display to TV
Date 2011-05-08 10:17 -0400
Organization National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.64.1105081011531.18453@darkstar.example.net> (permalink)
References <iq4f0i019lg@news2.newsguy.com> <pan.2011.05.07.22.28.56.979509@deadspam.com> <iq4i3e02qc3@news1.newsguy.com> <iq4n28$2mk$1@dont-email.me> <iq4o730172h@news5.newsguy.com>

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On Sat, 8 May 2011, buck wrote:

> J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> wrote in news:iq4n28$2mk$1@dont-email.me:
>
>> On Saturday, May 7th, 2011 at 22:46:06h +0000, Buck wrote:
>>
>>> The TV has "every" input known to man: HDMI, FireWire, VGA, Etc.
> It is
>>> NTSC.
>>
>> And ATSC as well I hope.
>>
>> So if your TV has *every type* of input, why are you not connecting
> to
>> your router via its ethernet socket or a wireless dongle in its USB
>> socket?
>>
>> Incidentally I have never heard of a TV having firewire before,
>> so that is something different to most modern TVs I have come
> across.
>>
>> Which model is it that has this firewire port?
>
>
> I may be wrong about FireWire, but IIRC, its purpoose is to update the
> firmware.  I'll get into the manual later and clarify.
>
That doesn't make sense. Firewire isn't that common, and it's significant 
point is fast transfer rates.  It would never be used "merely" to update 
firmware, you'd have problems finding a source in most people's homes, and
fast transfer wouldn't be important. Firewire is for digitized video.

> I have no idea what ATSC is. >

Digital tv.  NTSC is the old analog scheme. The US turned that off two 
years ago, when digital tv came along, and ATSC is the format used for 
DTV.

And since the US did plan things ahead, there was a point where no tv 
(over a certain size?) could be sold unless it could receive DTV.  It's 
not likely that a tv with so many recent types of inputs would be old 
enough to predate the mandated inclusion of ATSC reception.

> What would I send to an ethernet connection that would cause an Email
> message to appear on the TV sceen?

That isn't likely to happen.  I suspect the only way you can use the TV 
set is as a display.  Maybe you can send send a video feed over ethernet, 
but it won't be seeing data that is the email.

   Michael

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Display to TV buck <buck@private.mil> - 2011-05-07 21:53 +0000
  Re: Display to TV Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-05-08 00:28 +0200
    Re: Display to TV buck <buck@private.mil> - 2011-05-07 22:46 +0000
      Re: Display to TV J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-05-08 00:10 +0000
      Re: Display to TV J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-05-08 00:10 +0000
        Re: Display to TV buck <buck@private.mil> - 2011-05-08 00:30 +0000
          Re: Display to TV J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-05-08 01:55 +0000
          Re: Display to TV Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-05-08 10:17 -0400
        Re: Display to TV Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-08 03:22 +0000
        Re: Display to TV Kevin Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-08 03:23 +0000
      Re: Display to TV Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-05-07 20:27 -0400
  Re: Display to TV Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-08 10:03 +0000
    Re: Display to TV J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-05-08 16:12 +0000
      Re: Display to TV Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-05-14 13:56 +0000
        Re: Display to TV J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-05-14 16:48 +0000

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