S-VIDEO

Has anyone tried this before? Someone at work was telling me if you buy an S-Video wire and run it from your graphics card through a scart plug into the back of your television you can watch downloaded media through your television, and they only cost around £10! I bought one after searching on ebay, and installed it whilst off sick yesterday, took about a minute to sort out. Once i had it sorted it worked like a dream, i thought the resolution might be a problem but it seems fiddling with the settings of your graphics card can solve that perfectly and i was able to watch things as if they were actually on tv normally. I think this will vastly improve the amount of films i watch now. It also means technically you could use a big tv as your computer monitor, so if you were a keen gamer you could try your favorite games on a much bigger screen, something i am going to try out when my new PC arrives.

Well the S-video negates the need for a usb stick/cds or dvds thats what im saying, it transmits from the pc to the TV as if it is a monitor via a wire. So for example, i could have this convo running on my monitor and my tv at the same time, n just unplug the monitor. The downloaded media such as Avi's look awesome on my tele, i expected it to be a small picture or fuzzy but it transmits perfectly and clear as day. Though i find it slightly harder to read this kind of thing on there though so i have decided to stick to just watching television through it.
I think if your PC can play crysis already, then it would work through this method, you would just have to set the resolution to the most suitable for your tv and ignore what your monitor looks like. (I just switch it off because it looks stupid and im not using it anyway)