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Rather, marketing. No-one profits from you plugging your PC into your TV, so no-one is going to spend marketing money to tell you you can do it.

It's not hard. 1] Plug s-video cable into TV. 2] Right-click ATI tray icon / secondary display / enable. Done.

Don't forget about audio. Even where the appropriate video output is available, many PC's lack any audio output other than a minijack.

Plug the audio cable into whatever produces sound and you're fine. TV/receiver/pc speakers/whatever. Works for me.

1/8th inch -> standard RCA cable is pretty common I think. I have like 3.

Lots of gadgets throw that thing in for free. Only having 3 is evidence of frugality. There must be 10 of those things around my apartment.

You couldn't pay me to run an s-video signal into my TV.

I have an SDTV. I assume you could do the same with a DVI cable and an HDTV. Just replace the name of the cable, the steps remain the same.