On 01/19/2006 02:08 PM, Gabe Rubin wrote: > Thanks for all these suggestions, and it confirms what I was thinking: > widescreen will require new hardware. > > Currently, I only use my myth for dvr functionality. I have a dvd > player, so I play dvds through that, I am not a big fan of mythmusic > and use my windows computer to play music, and other functions are > handled elsewhere. My setup is an old VIA cpu at 800 mhz. I dont > really want to fuss with HD as I dont really watch much OTA > programming, and really would only like it for ESPN and HBO which > seems to be impossible now (or at least can be accomplished for the > time being with firewire, but that may be downgraded by the cable > companies). So it seems a little pointless to spend a coupld hundred > to upgrade my whole system. > > Can I do widescreen, just for the themes, via s-video? If so, I can > play around with that, but otherwise, I can be satisfied with > "antiquated" technology. > When I suggested you get rid of NTSC I didn't mean you stop recording it. I meant you'll get a *much* better picture out of your HDTV--even for NTSC recordings--if you use a VGA/DVI/HDMI/Component connection. If you use a VGA connection, you can output a signal using the highest resolution your TV supports (i.e. 1280x720 or 1920x1080) and it will definitely be wide screen and should be *much* better quality than a 480i NTSC signal. And, since Myth knows that you have a widescreen display, it will properly pillarbox 4:3 content (although you can override this globally or during playback) and not letterbox 16:9 content. And, if you use MythDVD for playing DVD's, the player (Internal, xine, MPlayer, Ogle) will pillarbox 4:3 content, not letterbox 16:9 content, and letterbox 2.35:1 content--all without having to use the stupid menu your TV gives you to change the scaling...
VGA shouldn't require any new hardware because your TV should have a VGA connection and your Myth box should have a video card. You can still use your PVR-350 for recording and not for display (and, you won't even need to load the framebuffer module that way)--I've been doing that since about a week after I bought my PVR-350 and realized I just wasted a bunch of money on a PVR-350 instead of a PVR-250 (the 150's weren't even announced back then)... Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
