One of the cool things about my new monitor is that it has multiple inputs: DVI, VGA, S-Video, and Composite. It can be connected to more than one video source at a time, and can then do Picture In Picture (PIP) or Picture By Picture (PBP).
So, for example, I could hook up my cable to the monitor and watch TV in a window while I'm working on other things.
Of course, inputs on my monitor notwithstanding, I can do that anyway, as I have an ATI All-In-Wonder card, which acts as a TV tuner and lets me display content from external video sources (Cable, S-Video, and Composite) on my computer.
The advantages that the AIW has over the PIP feature on my monitor are that I can more easily scale the window displaying the video content, move the window around, capture still images, and record the video directly to my hard drive.
Another feature of the AIW is that it has a "TV Out" feature, which means that I can pipe video from my computer out to a secondary display (through S-Video or Composite).
Because I'm a dork, a thought occurred to me:
Here we see a shot of my monitor, with the DVI connection from my AIW hooked up and providing the primary display, while simultaneously connected via the Composite input from the AIW's TV Out and providing the PIP.
Due to differences in resolution, the PIP can't display a full copy of my desktop, so when I play a video file the TV Out is set to have the video scaled to full-screen on the external (or in this case, internal) source.
So yeah, I really am that much of a dork.
In any case, I have a few things that I need to do today, but I'll be back later.
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