Making a PC usable on a tiny TV monitor
From time to time you may end up having to
operate a PC connected to a scan converter WITHOUT a monitor, i.e. the PC is
connected directly to the scan converter and the only place you can see the
screen contents is on a Video monitor or projector output. This is fine when it
is displayed on a big screen, but when all you have to go on is a tiny 4 inch
preview monitor, it is much harder to
control.
Here's a quick way to make it more visible, using the accesibility settings in Windows.
Here's a quick way to make it more visible, using the accesibility settings in Windows.
Running your PC graphics through a scan converter
results in a loss of resolution and especially on a smaller monitor all those
nice windows menus and text get pretty squished and fuzzy and it's hard to
navigate around.
You could drop the screen resolution but that would screw up all your nice pp slides.
Here's a quick way to fix things so you can see what you are doing
in Windows 2000
START....SETTINGS....CONTROL PANEL...ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS...DISPLAY (tab) then tick "use high contrast". and OK.
You will then get this...
Much easier to read and navigate on a tiny 5 inch preview monitor!!
NOTE - resolution of powerpoint slides etc is unaffected by this method
Also results are pretty patchy in some apps. Worth trying before you assume you can use it.
You could drop the screen resolution but that would screw up all your nice pp slides.
Here's a quick way to fix things so you can see what you are doing
in Windows 2000
START....SETTINGS....CONTROL PANEL...ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS...DISPLAY (tab) then tick "use high contrast". and OK.
You will then get this...
Much easier to read and navigate on a tiny 5 inch preview monitor!!
NOTE - resolution of powerpoint slides etc is unaffected by this method
Also results are pretty patchy in some apps. Worth trying before you assume you can use it.
Posted: Sun - December 21, 2003 at 07:18 AM |
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