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Turn Your Monitor Into an HDTV

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stupid-television-tricks dept.

orangerobot writes "ViewSonic has released an interesting new box that turns any VGA monitor into an HDTV video display with support for standards up to 1080i. At $399 it's a little on the pricey side, but according to the review from EnvyNews, the unit performs pretty well." Like the review, I can't figure out what the target market for this is, but it's still a cool device.

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  1. Not true HDTV quality. by gatekeep · · Score: 0, Redundant

    According to the article, this thing's maximum resolution is 1280x1024.

    1080i HDTV is 1920 x 1080.
    720p HDTV is 1280 x 720

    So this thing, while capable of displaying 720p can't display the more commong 1080i standard natively. It'll display the image, but what you'll see isn't the full 1080i resolution.