On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:49 -0500, Roy Murphy wrote: > I've been reading this list for about two months and I'm about ready > to buy some HW for a MythBox, but I'm having a hard time finding > setups that work well in the archives. > > I'm going to be driving a 1080i native HDTV CRT with a VGA-Composite > adaptor (no DVI or HDMI inputs on this model). I hear that an nvidia > adapter can drive HD with less processor, but interlace dosn't work. > > Assuming I have a hefty processor (3.4 GHz P4) which graphics chipsets > could drive HD through VGA? ATI? SIS? Intel Extreme? Unichrome?
I had a Ti4200 connected to an HDTV via a DVI-HDMI cable. It worked at 720p but it was terribly overscanned and I was never very happy with the picture quality. I could never get 1080i to display correctly. The display was always messed up, like not in sync or something. It was kind of hard to describe and I never fixed it. I always assumed that it would look better in 1080i than 720p since 1080i is supposedly the "native" resolution for my TV. I also had the same problems with "540p" resolutions. I recently switched from that system to an Xbox at 480p and am much happier with the image quality. I haven't tried the xbox in 720p or 1080i (which I understand is possible.) I don't actually have any real HD content to play yet anyway, so it hasn't mattered and the xbox isn't even remotely fast enough to decode HD content so I may not bother. I'll probably be trying again soon... once I have the HD3000 card recording shows the urge to be able to play them back will be pretty strong. In the meantime I was planning to transcode the HD content into something my xbox's can handle. Anyway, good luck... -- Aran Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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