[mythtv-users] Audio Authority 9A60 questions

[Brad Templeton]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:47:05AM -0500, Robert Tsai wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:04:33PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:15, Robert Tsai wrote:
> > > I have a Toshiba 42H83 RPTV that will do a
> > > severely-overscanned-but-presentable 960x540p (856x480 viewable
> > > area) and an also-severely-overscanned 720x480p (didn't bother
> > > figuring out what the exact viewable area). The Toshiba manual
> > > claims the DVI input can accept 1080i, 720p, 540p, 480p, 480i, but
> > > I've read on some other forums that Toshiba has acknowledged this
> > > to be false. And get-edid fails to retrieve anything from my TV.
> > 
> > That's fairly typical, many HDTVs don't give out any DDC/EDID info.
> > 
> > > Can I aspire to something better with the 9A60?
> > 
> > Nope, its pretty much entirely manual. Gotta find the right modeline
> > and tell X to use it to drive your HDTV. I wrote a little bit on the
> > subject a while back:
> > 
> > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/mythhd.php
> 
> Ah. I see.
> 
> Your HDTV has no DVI or VGA option, so you *had* to get some kind of
> component output adapter for anything better than S-Video or
> composite.
> 
> But given that my TV does have a DVI input, are you saying that the
> 9A60 won't give me anything better than what I can do with DVI today,
> or is it possible that the TV might accept different (e.g.,
> better-than-540p) resolutions over component video than it can over
> DVI?

Almost certainly.   My understanding is that it is quite common for
set top boxes from the cable and satellite companies to output 1080i
on component video as their standard form.   An HDTV that can't take
1080i over component video would not be much of an HDTV.