Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia GeForce FX5500 card with tv out

2005-02-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:30:02AM -0700, Jim wrote: For tv-out of SDTV, you can use a much cheaper card than that. I can get that card for 88 us dollars and it seems to be a good price I will look for less expensive cards but it seems the cards 20 $ less have 1/2 the memory. You are

[mythtv-users] nvidia GeForce FX5500 card with tv out

2005-01-31 Thread Jim
I am looking at purchasing the eVGA nVIDIA GeForce FX5500 Video Card, 256MB DDR, 128-bit, DVI/TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model 256-A8-N313-LX card and the chipset is GeForce FX5500/270MHz would this be a good card for to use for the tv out function for mythtv? Can basically any nvidia card with tv out

Re: [mythtv-users] nvidia GeForce FX5500 card with tv out

2005-01-31 Thread Jim
For tv-out of SDTV, you can use a much cheaper card than that. But more to the point, I believe most versions of that card have a fan on them, which you probably don't want in an HTPC. Fans make noise, and GPU fans are small and thus noisier. In theory the FX cards have some fancier xvmc logic