Video Card/TV Question

[CHIPMAN]

Hi
So I recently noticed (this morning heh) that my video card (NVIDIA GeForce 5200FX) actually has a DVI Output on it. This made me happy because about a month ago I bought a little HD tube TV for my bedroom for my XBOX 360, which (the 360 only does component for HD) has a free HDMI input. I sell TV's so I'm well aware of the cable I need to connect them and use my TV as a monitor (DVI -> HDMI Monster cable -- staff discount heh), but I have a question before I look into that.

Basically, I'm wondering what exactly my video card will be capable of spitting out? Is it going to be able to give me a HD resolution on my TV? If not, what kind of resolution would I be looking at (in TV terms would be nice - 540p, 720p, 720i, 1080i, etc -- computer's confuse me)? Also opinions on how it would look would be appreciated, if I like the responses here I'll buy the cable next time I work and check it out for myself, and if I'm not happy I'll just return the cable. But yea, if my video card can spit out in HD, that'd be cool.

Hope someone can help. (Video card, to remind you, 128mb GeForce 5200FX)

Thanks

[Nemesis]

well....considering your computer runs in say...1280x1024 resolution on the moniter you have hooked up...i wouldn't see why the video card wouldnt be able to run less than that resolution on a tv...its not like its different kinds of pixels. or so i think.

[CHIPMAN]

What about quality though? Another concern (to the general public, not just you nem), is whether or not it would look good?

Say in comparison to my current monitor, just a very stand Dell 17" CRT, hooked up with VGA?

[jabroni]

i hooked my pc to my hd tube tv via dvi and it looked terrible. was using 1080i :\ very very blurry. i seriously couldnt read any text :(. not only that (not sure if this applies to nvidia cards) you have to dl a separate program to shrink and center the image. otherwise the top bottom and sides may expand outside of the tv borders.

my tv only supports 480i, 480p, and 1080i so the 30hz flickering at 1080i is gay as well. it sounds like yours supports p scan at the higher resolutions so you shouldnt get any flickering since itll run at 60hz.

[CHIPMAN]

well it does a 540p, wish it did 720 but it doesn't :(