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20'' Cinema display (use as a TV?)
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I know this is probably a dumb question but I dont know anything about moniters at all. I haev a 15'' PowerBook and wanted to get an LCD screen but was debating between the 20'' Cinema Display or the Dell W1900 19'' HDTV LCD. Just wondering if they 20'' can display tv images or you can hook up a console to it and play games on it?
Thanks!
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Bump.
Anyone? Please? 
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Not natively. You'll need something like EyeTV or Studio TVR to do this. A few hundred bucks at least.
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bump for you. i'm really wanting to do this as well at times, but don't see a way to play live HDtv signals into the cinema display out there at all currently... regular SD television signals seem a waste of all that resolution..!
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Well, you might be able to get an HDTV cable box with DVI output.
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Originally posted by tooki:
Well, you might be able to get an HDTV cable box with DVI output.
tooki
my HD cable box has component RGB and HDMI outputs, its the SA8300HD model... i figure the HDMI is out due to the encryption, but was wondering if perhaps going from the component RGB's to VGA, and from VGA to DVI in some fashion would do the trick... i can run VGA directly to many of my RGB sources, not sure if it works in the other direction though, w/ the addition of the DVI conversion at the end to contend w/..
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Originally posted by tooki:
Well, you might be able to get an HDTV cable box with DVI output.
tooki
The Cinema display does not support HDCP, so you will not find a cable box with DVI output that works. All cable boxes these days use HDCP with DVI or HDMI.
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I posted my review of the W1900 here:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...ighlight=w1900
If you are interested in a display that can function as a tv then i think you are better off with an lcd that has the tuner and component inputs already bult into it, like the w1900. I still have reservations about the image quality on lcd tvs, esp w respect to console gaming.
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PB users ready to plunk down their cash on a 20" Cinema Display to watch DVD's, might want to re-think their purchase, especially if this would be the primary use of their display.
The following is an older thread. Not sure if it is still an issue, but nonetheless, here it is:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=92595
Noah
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