[mythtv-users] Best graphics card choice? (HDTV and regular)

[Preston Crow]

I'm selecting a video card for my new system, and my research is telling
me that I want a GeForce 4 MX 440 SE.  Here's how I reached that
conclusion, followed by several questions:

The card has MPEG-2 support, so I won't need a terribly fast processor
once I buy an HDTV.

I'm told that the SE version doesn't require a fan on the GPU, making it
the quieter option.

I'll need the SVideo-out for my existing TV in the short run and DVI-out
for HDTV later on.  Unfortunately, most of the cards that I've found
don't have the DVI output.  Am I missing something here?

What really is the best card for both regular and HDTV output?

--PC

Somewhat related:

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 12:16, Brandon Beattie wrote:
> It means that it has an internal mpeg2 decoder that can handle decodeing
> mpeg2 up to 1920x1080 resolution.  It's outputed through vga, DVI,
> (S-video is 800x600 max).  The TV encoder is probably meaning it can
> output any HDTV size stream to the s-video port which is TV, but it will
> be downscaled to 800x600).  I don't use hardware decoding because it
> looks terrible when upscaling.  I run my display at 1024x576 (16:9).
> Few lucky people who have nice viewsonic monitors can do 1920x1080i but
> it looks great.  Hardware decoding has to be supportoed by nvidia's
> driver (Which it is) and the application (Which mythtv does, so does
> mplayer, xine, etc)
> 
> --Brandon
> 
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:20:52PM -0800, Chris Germano wrote:
> > When a video card (say Nvidia Geforece 4 MX440) states that it supports
> > "DVD- and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i ATSC format" with the
> > integrated TV encoder chip what does that mean?