I want to watch movies from my computer on my LCD Tv

[tesco]

I want to grab a new video card first, one that can put out at least a 720P signal.

What am I looking at?

Any vid card with component or hdmi output will give you 1080p or higher. Not that any tv would accept anything higher...

I use component with mine because the tv is more than 20 ft from my computer (well, 20ft of hidden wire). If I were to use HDMI it would be too expensive for the wire to hook it up.
The component gives a perfect picture I honestly don't see any difference between using it or using HDMI. HDMI is just the convenience of having less cables to plug in (or see if you're running it across your floor).

Also keep in mind you could always just use a DVI to HDMI adaptor and then you can use ANY vid card that has DVI output...
You don't get sound through DVI though so you'd need to run a seperate cable for that.
(with HDMI you can get sound through the same cable but I don't know if any vid cards actually output sound through it...probably only video (I don't know for sure).

[Artemis]

I want to grab a new video card first, one that can put out at least a 720P signal.

What am I looking at?

Any vid card with component or hdmi output will give you 1080p or higher. Not that any tv would accept anything higher...

I use component with mine because the tv is more than 20 ft from my computer (well, 20ft of hidden wire). If I were to use HDMI it would be too expensive for the wire to hook it up.
The component gives a perfect picture I honestly don't see any difference between using it or using HDMI. HDMI is just the convenience of having less cables to plug in (or see if you're running it across your floor).

Also keep in mind you could always just use a DVI to HDMI adaptor and then you can use ANY vid card that has DVI output...
You don't get sound through DVI though so you'd need to run a seperate cable for that.
(with HDMI you can get sound through the same cable but I don't know if any vid cards actually output sound through it...probably only video (I don't know for sure).

The newer graphics cards with HDMI connectors on then have sound support I am building a PC for a friend right now that has a Palit NV9500GT card with HDMI out and it has the audio connectors to go to the mainboard.