Originally Posted by bestnifty

If I connect LCD TV with Computer thru HDMI and TataSky Can I switch between the chart and CNBC without any hassles ? or can they be viewed side by side simultaneously?

If you connect your computer to your lcd tv using hdmi and then connect tata sky to the lcd tv, you can switch between the 2 by using the input function of your tv. Now if you have a HD DTH stb that connects to your tv using hdmi, then you will need a tv with at least 2 hdmi inputs to get this working. This is fairly trivial to setup and I have tried both methods of connecting my dth stbs to my tv.

Typically you will be using the composite video connection from your dth stb to connect to that to your tv and a hdmi cable to connect your computer to the tv. You set up your computer in extended desktop mode and you then switch between the computer display and the dth by using the tv's input switch feature.

Some tvs will also allow you to show your dth within a PIP window while you display your computer's output using hdmi. For this, check your tv manual and see if it supports such a thing. If i am remembering correctly, my 23" lg monitor tv allowed me to do this. But in the side by side PIP mode, it would squish the computer display, so mostly I ended up not bothering with this feature.

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Dear Noonelivesforever , Why I cant view movies that are in my pen drive . I already experimented converted to MPG1-2 3-4 . My TV is flat screen Sony M500.
Any help will be appreciable. Its those movies that I dnloaded from Utube from computer. The TV doen't read it.

The question was about My Sony TV is not reading movies in pen drive.

@shiree.. I do not know about sony tvs and their support for pen drives. I personally use a media player or my computer to watch media stored on my hard drives/pen drives on my tv.

Most likely there is some issue with either the file format or the name of the file. Check the exact filename (including extension) for the movies that run and those that do not run. Also check the mediainfo using a media player on the pc.

-- no1lives4ever

@shiree-ji

It's possible that the movies that you got from youtube are Flash videos .FLV format.

Most LCD's / LED's have support for DivX and XviD codecs only.

Please check if you are in-fact feeding the proper content. PC's will play anything as the codecs are installed.

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use a media player to play anything on TV, but if not then use any Video editing software to convert the media to the supported format.
1.Note down the Video / Audio codec , bit rate etc of the playing media in your TV
2.Then convert the Media to the codec and bit rate, aspect ratio etc exactly as per the value of the supported media of your tv.
now try playing the converted media.Although there will be some losses of the original quality during conversion.
I hv LG LED tv which supports .avi format also..flv isn't supported and also some .wmv files are also not played.good luck.

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