Making my music create visual effects on my TV

[colandsuey]

On my PC I have Windows Media Player, but I also have a program that I downloaded called Real One Player.  It's useful for playing audio and video files.
 
Under Tools, there's an Option called Choose Visualization, and under that I can choose from five different visual effects that play on the screen in time with the music I'm playing.  This is really cool! 
 
But what would be nice would be to have some kind of device attached to my TV and hifi that would produce the same kind of effect on my TV when I play CDs, with the effects in time with the music.
 
It's the sort of think I guess some DJs would have.
 
Does anyone know of such a gizmo?

[fly258]

If you have a Svideo output on your graphics card and a Svideo input on your TV, join them with a Svideo cable.  Switch your TV to computer input and you should have whatever is displayed on your PC on your TV.

[colandsuey]

Hi fly, thanks for that, but it's not the output of my PC that I want to see on the TV.  I want to connect a device between my hifi and my TV so that the TV displays the visual effects of the music when I play a CD or the radio or whatever.  Any ideas?

[tomd]

You can make this appear on your computer, by getting Real Player to 'play' the line-in. You could then attach your pc to your telly.

In short, the device you need is a PC. I've never seen a stand-alone device to do that, the processing power it would need would make it very expensive compared to a PC in it's own right.