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the boys discovered we can plug the laptop into the tv. which is pretty cool. cause now we can watch netflix instant play on the big tv instead of on the relatively small laptop screen. the problem is it's dvi out. so there's no audio. yet. i need to secure the appropriate audio cable. then we can be dangerous. sorta. hdtv has almost as many pixels of resolution as computer monitors that were available 5 years before hd and 10x cheaper. woot. a couple of things become immediately apparent when connecting a computer to a tv. tv's suck at scaling. they seem to do the thick line thing instead of interpolation. like computer graphics cards. cheap cards. also the text looks funny cause the sharpen filter is turned up so high. which i guess makes the normal tv content look extra crisp. which i guess sells tvs. but makes my eyeballs hurt when i try to read text. fortunately, it can be turned down to sane levels.