Steve,<br>
Out of curiosity, why would you recommend using a 350 and TV out
to somebody whose TV has a VGA input? Using a PVR-150 and the VGA
put should save money and headaches, no? <br>
<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Adeff</b> <<a href="mailto:adeffs@gmail.com">adeffs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thursday 08 December 2005 10:52, Chris wrote:<br>> > > I'm going to build a new frondend machine. What would be the way to<br>> > > go.<br>> > > PVR 350 with tvout or just use the vga out. Suggestions for a nice
<br>> > > quiet<br>> > > vga card ?<br>> > ><br>> > > I'm connecting it to an lcd tv that has both VGA and s-video inputs<br>> ><br>> > Well, I suppose two questions have to be asked here:
<br>> ><br>> > 1.) What kind of TV is this front-end being hooked up to? High-Def,<br>> > or Standard Def?<br>><br>> no HD<br>><br>> > 2.) Do you plan on going to High-Def any time soon?<br>
><br>> I've no plans<br>><br>> > 3.) Do you want to do anything more than just playback on this front-<br>> > end?<br>><br>> just playback, i've got enough pc's :-))<br>> has to be queit (i think even diskless)
<br>><br>> Chris<br><br>use a PVR350 for tv output then. Since you don't plan on doing any gaming,<br>etc. that requires a GPU of sorts then the 350's tv output will be fine.<br><br>in order to use the tuner on the 350 with Myth you'll need to set up this
<br>front end as a slave backend. If you don't plan on using a tuner on this<br>frontend then just find a cheap nvidia card with TV-out (XvMC enabled if<br>requried by cpu limitations) instead.<br><br>--<br>Steve<br>_______________________________________________
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