Agreed. I would never want a TVOne for exactly that reason. It is unnecessary given what the card already does for me, which gets back to the original point of this spin for getting the card (6600GT) given the availalble alternatives to accomplish the same thing without the need to week modelines and potentially risk the health of the TV :) . Mentioning ithe TVOne was just an example of what appears to be a similiar operation on the 6600 though implemented in hardware at a more exhorbidant cost overall. Agreed as well per one of your previous emails that the Audio Authority is not a scan converter, another reason I chose the 6600GT over that particular option.
All that said,... I doubt I will use this card on any Frontend I build that would be dedicated to simply viewing TV (I've only been playing with myth for about 6 weeks now). This box is my Backend and a system I also use for monitoring my clients systems while still watching TV in a decent format and working from the comfort of my living room. I enjoyed this discussion, much good info for all who may care. ;) -Blair On Monday 14 February 2005 22:44, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:15:28PM -0700, Blair wrote: > > Just in case; > > > > Hey Brad, It just occurred to me that folks might not realize that with > > this latest generation of nVidia Cards, a new set of TV formats have been > > implemented as options for the TV Out port on the cards. You may now do > > stuff like; > > > > Option "TVStandard" "HD480i" or > > Option "TVStandard" "HD1080i" or any of the other HDTV output formats > > > > It is possible that there is some sort of scan converter onboard the card > > but I don't know tis for a fact. For example, the TVOne box ($250) that > > I mentioned earlier takes a 1600x1200 signal and creates a 1080i (or > > whatever) output format. The 6 series cards look suspiciously familier > > in this regard. > > Well, I don't know about that card with its component outputs, but all > "xvideo" cards (including nvidia) have a "scan converter" in that > the xvideo hardware converts an image (such as a 1920 x 1080 one) to > a smaller resolution -- in fact any size you tell it to though it won't > go below a certain level with a full 1080i. > > The audio authority box has no scan converter. You must feed it > a 1920x1080i signal on your VGA if that's what you want it to put out > as component video. However, the nvidia cards are easily capable of > that. > > The tvone sounds like overkill since you already have the downscaler > in your video card -- almost any modern video card, even the $30 nvidias > will do this. -- -Blair Preston Principle Systems Architect "The best way to predict the future, is to invent it" -Alan Kay _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
