Ok, I went ahead and bought a Big Projection DTV for 400 dollars (used), HD1080 series Mitsubishi. I am happy with the purchase and now am ready to have a bunch of you over to watch good movies.
Anyway, I went ahead and hooked the TV's "input 1" into my computer through a 20 foot s-video cable. After about 20 minutes of fiddling with both the computer and TV I got the TV to display a clone image of my desktop. My computer is a Dell 8200, 1 gig ram, 2 ghz pentium processor, nvidea g-force mx-400 and I have the latest drivers.
Works fine except when I play a video on my computer. Then the area of my desktop that shows the movie is black on the TV, though the movie is playing fine on my computer monitor. I have tried multiple video programs. High framerate videogames showup on the TV with no problem.
I have gone through the troubleshooter and found nothing on this.
Can anyone give me some clues here? Any information you guys need? I am very frustrated.