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Jason,
TV Out quality sucks. Get a breakout box that converts VGA -> component
video and you will have much better picture.

Kevin

At 09:46 AM 11/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm piecing together a new box for mythtv. I need to buy a video card
>that can output to my 43" 9:16 TV with excellent quality (well, at
>least better than the VCR.) From the mailing list, it seems a few
>people are using the GeForce2 MX 400. I also read that Isaac was using
>such a card before upgrading to a Gainward GeForce4 Ti4200. (Why did
>you need to upgrade, Isaac?)
>
>Does anyone have MythTV setup with a big screen TV? Is the GeForce2 MX
>400 robust enough to handle the output? Would a GeForce4 Ti4200 improve
>MythTV's performance?
>
>Thanks,
>Jason
>
>
>
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On Wednesday 06 November 2002 09:46 am, JASON FORD wrote:
> I'm piecing together a new box for mythtv. I need to buy a video card
> that can output to my 43" 9:16 TV with excellent quality (well, at
> least better than the VCR.) From the mailing list, it seems a few
> people are using the GeForce2 MX 400. I also read that Isaac was using
> such a card before upgrading to a Gainward GeForce4 Ti4200. (Why did
> you need to upgrade, Isaac?)

Old card didn't have a tv-out, and I wanted to play Morrowind and Neverwinter
Nights at a decent framerate =)

Isaac

I'd suggest looking at one of the dual head Matrox G550, TV output is quite
good, I have a client running it to his 6ft projection TV. This is under
windows mind you, however, last I looked it works fine under linux.

On 6 Nov 2002 at 8:56, Kevin Jensen wrote:

> Jason,
> TV Out quality sucks. Get a breakout box that converts VGA -> component video
> and you will have much better picture.
>
> Kevin
>
> At 09:46 AM 11/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'm piecing together a new box for mythtv. I need to buy a video card
> >that can output to my 43" 9:16 TV with excellent quality (well, at
> >least better than the VCR.) From the mailing list, it seems a few
> >people are using the GeForce2 MX 400. I also read that Isaac was using
> >such a card before upgrading to a Gainward GeForce4 Ti4200. (Why did
> >you need to upgrade, Isaac?)

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> TV Out quality sucks. Get a breakout box that converts VGA -> component
> video and you will have much better picture.

So, if I'm going to be outputting the signal to an HDTV display, I'll
need a transcoder to convert the signal from VGA to component video for
optimal results.

PC -> video card -> transcoder -> HDTV =)

However, some video cards will do the job of getting the signal to the
transcoder better, right? A card with more memory will be capable of
transmitting a signal at a higher resolution to the transcoder.

I'm not sure how the requirements for MythTV translate into recommended
specifications for the various components. Do I need a beefy video
card? Is a GeForce2 MX 400 suitable?

Is anyone else watching MythTV on an HDTV display?

Thanks,
Jason

P.S. I think it'd be cool to have a page on mythtv.org devoted to user
setups, so we can show off our MythTV (boxes | boxen).

Jason,
Get a Radeon 8500 and a Audio Authority transcoder and you will be set.

You do not need a beefy video card. Spend your money on a faster processor,
it will be more benefit for you.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net]On Behalf Of Jason Ford
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 6:11 PM
To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Subject: Re: [mythtv] TV-Out on a big screen TV


> TV Out quality sucks. Get a breakout box that converts VGA -> component
> video and you will have much better picture.

So, if I'm going to be outputting the signal to an HDTV display, I'll
need a transcoder to convert the signal from VGA to component video for
optimal results.

PC -> video card -> transcoder -> HDTV =)

However, some video cards will do the job of getting the signal to the
transcoder better, right? A card with more memory will be capable of
transmitting a signal at a higher resolution to the transcoder.

I'm not sure how the requirements for MythTV translate into recommended
specifications for the various components. Do I need a beefy video
card? Is a GeForce2 MX 400 suitable?

Is anyone else watching MythTV on an HDTV display?

Thanks,
Jason

P.S. I think it'd be cool to have a page on mythtv.org devoted to user
setups, so we can show off our MythTV (boxes | boxen).

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:11:26PM -0500, Jason Ford wrote:
> Is anyone else watching MythTV on an HDTV display?

I will be using a CRT projector, which takes RGB input directly. (And
doesn't take up half the floorspace!) But these days I'd think a DLP
projector would be best; I just got a cheap deal several years ago on
this one and it works well enough. I have used Xawtv with it for a
while, and have a DVD player with RGB outputs too. The convergence drifts
a lot though, and that is much worse than signal degradation due to
passing through an NTSC encoding.

It's unfortunate that they picked a different standard for TV-type
component video, although I'm beginning to understand it has something to
do with better noise immunity.

> P.S. I think it'd be cool to have a page on mythtv.org devoted to user
> setups, so we can show off our MythTV (boxes | boxen).

That sounds fun.

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