Originally Posted by dojj
not too worried about the quality as the rear projetor is a 52" 4:3 unit and the upscaling from the 17" laptop with it's widescreen is going to be a bit strange anyway
Dojj, it won't upscale, it will downscale
Laptop resolution at worst will be 1024x768, or better. A CRT TV can only do 576 lines which is the PAL standard.
So, while the TV screen is physically larger, it actually displays fewer lines and columns than even the oldest laptop.
The only reason I could see for wanting to display laptop screen onto a TV is if you are playing a movie on the laptop and want it on a bigger screen
Anything else (web browsing, etc... will not be very good).
Just resize your laptop screen to 800x600 to get an idea of how much you can see on the screen at once, and then, imagine the overall picture quality (sharpness of text, etc...) worse than the laptop shows... that will give you a rough idea of what to expect on a TV.
Size isn't everything you know
