[mythtv-users] MythTV and my new Samsung DLP

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Wed Jun 16 16:27:50 EDT 2004


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On Wednesday 16 June 2004 07:01, John Roberts wrote:
> I've been a user of Mythtv for about 6 months now - great opensource
> project!
>
> I took the big step last week and bought a Samsung DLP (50 inch)!  Ouch -
> hot dogs and beans for me every night for a while I guess...
>
> Anyway - the question is this:
>
> The TV has a native resolution which it "upgrades/down grades" to 720p (so
> I understand anyway).  I've also read the resolution for this TV should be
> 1280x768p - which is not supported by my i810 on-board video. :(

Are you certain it isn't supported? Have you tried creating a custom modeline 
for it?

> I'm thinking of getting the FX5200 or the MX440 and was wondering what
> people thought of either of these cards (or had a better one they could
> recommend).

I use all MX 440 cards with good success. However, I believe some people have 
found the FX cards to perform better for HDTV.

> Anyone out there using mythtv on a DLP and would like to share their
> XF86Config file?

I'm not exactly that setup myself, but I have some HDTV stuff I wrote here:

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/mythhd.php

There are links to additional resources there as well.

- -- 
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