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I'm thinking of dumping my the TV portion of my cable plan and just using a PC to send video from the Internet (Hulu, Netflix, and other sites) from a PC to the TV via a DB-15 VGA port.

Could 1080p content from the Internet be display over a VGA video connection? The computer is a 5 year old P4 which I'd like to recycle for this purpose, but it only has a VGA port (the TV has a VGA input on it too). The computer is capable of playing Flash videos from the Internet (from places like YouTube, I've already verified this).

Will this work, or do I need to use DVI or HDMI for this level of resolution for video? My TV is a 46" LED (only about 1 year old).

I'm doing this because I'm paying about $30 a month extra for the TV portion, when everything I want to watch I could watch online (Hulu Plus, NetFlix, etc). So, in my view, it would be worth it to dump cable TV. I've found places online, such as SideReel.com where I can watch my favorite shows (although they are about 1 or 2 episodes behind on some shows) to save $30 a month would be worth it to me.

Suggestions? BTW- the P4 computer is a 2.66 GHz, and has 1GB of RAM and runs Windows XP, and has the Integrated Intel GMA900 graphics -- 915G chipset (all of which I think at least meet the requirements for playing videos with Flash). I don't really want to build another PC since this is all the PC will be needed for.

Looks like 2048×1536px @85 Hz (388 MHz) is the highest resolution a VGA cable can go.
640×480 in 16 colors is the highest the original VGA standard goes, but most people don't have that.
XGA goes to 1024×768, but that's in 16 colors.
WXGA goes to 1280×800, and is in widescreen.
Does your PC have a slot for a cheap 210 or 5450? This will give you HDMI support, which isn't as fragmented.

Unfortunately, the PC is a slim PC and only will take cards with a slim desktop slot adapaters, which in the end, when added to the cost of a new card, I might as well just build another cheap low-power Atom/AMD solution for just a little more (and get much better overall performance).

Thanks for the advice.

A 35$ 210 will do it. They are usually low profile.
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Pass ... B004KABG1I
Should come with a half-size bracket, most do.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... _-14121422
has one as well.

Unless a new system costs 35 bucks, this is probably the most painless.

I forgot to mention, the computer DOES have (1) PCI-E slot, but it's only a x1 slot. Other than that, it has 3 PCI slots (which I will never buy a PCI video card, no matter how cheap). But they are all slim sized (short) slots.

My other thought is that I could use my current WHS server box (uninstall WHS and put WinXP or win7 on it) and use it as a box for watching TV online or videos. It's an Atom N330 dual core with the ION graphics (which is capable of doing what I want to do with the online TV watching thing). Only then, I would have to rebuild the server again using parts.

I may go that route, because I'm finding the N330 at 533 MHz FSB really isn't too good for server purposes if you have more than (about) 3 computers accessing it at once. The N330 doesn't do blu-ray very well, but I have a PS3 to watch blu-ray movies, so that isn't an issue, and if the video isn't encoded (like on YouTube) then it shouldn't be a problem for the ION graphics.

I just now would need to find a good low-wattage CPU that was at least a daul core and at least 1.8 GHz to run my WHS system...