[mythtv-users] Best TV-Out Support

Nick Dyer nick at shmanahar.org
Wed Oct 27 12:31:12 UTC 2004


On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:33:31PM +0200, Asciimonster wrote:
> 1. Videocard with TV-out. Some TV-Outs are not (yet) supported in Linux 
> or are a bit quirky, so please get a lot of info before you buy one of them.
> 2. Buy a separeate monitor-to-tv converter. Advantages: Easy set-up, no 
> limit on the TV-cards you can use(besides the motherboard-issue of 
> course). Most large,  well-supplied electronics stores should have one.
> 3. A TV-Card with intergrated TV-Out, such as the Hauppauge PVR 350. (I 
> have one so I'm a bit biased)
> Advantages: Good image quality, bypasses monitor completely, so no issues.
> Disadvantages: Expensive (think $200-300 per card), Set-up is still 
> fiddelly (good HOWTO's are available & will get better ;-) )

What about DVI? There are several CRT televisions which now support this
- has anyone any experience of display quality under mythtv?


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