[mythtv-users] Hardware ideas

ian mythtv at ianmills.com
Thu Jun 24 21:08:41 EDT 2004


Stephen Tait wrote:
>> > I did have my doubts about the mx440 s-video quality. I've been 
>> fighting
>> > with "afterthought" s-video on nvidia cards for a while (I've had two).
>> > The latter, ti4400, is passable but that's in windows.
>>
>> Not all cards are created equal. My Chaintech cards all produce very good
>> quality video on a TV hooked to it via SVideo. The difference in quality
>> between a PVR-350 and my GF4 cards is fairly miniscule.
> 
> 
> The TV-Out chips are heavily vendor-dependent I imagine - some will be 
> better than others.
Geforce4mx and onwards have the tv encoder built into the chip from 
nvidia so it is pretty vendor independant.


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