javadayaz wrote: > can someone recommend a cheapish (£10-25) graphics card that will > display/upscale to hd quality? I would like to display on 40" screen. > pref on ebay. > > Easily set up on Ubuntu will be a plus! > > -- > Regards > > Javad Do you want PCI express, AGP or standard PCI?
I'd suggest looking at the NVidia cards, I gather the 8400 or 9400 offer HD acceleration with VDPAU (which is supported as far as I know by MythTV and MPlayer). VDPAU offloads some of the decoding of HD video to the graphics card... http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_vdpau_gpu&num=1 NVidia have released a new range of Geforce cards, I believe the cheapest is the Geforce 210 although these seem to be going for about £30 to £40 at the moment. If you wanted a card about £20 you'd probably be looking at a Geforce 8400 or something along those lines. Saying that, if you have a reasonable spec CPU (Core 2 Duo, Athlon X2) and a recent ish graphics card you should be able to play HD video anyway, it just might have a higher CPU usage. Rob Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
