[mythtv-users] New Digimatrix questions

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 01:42, Peter Darley wrote:
> Steve,
>
>      The HDTV playback is great.  I've got mine hooked up to my TV
> doing 1080i at 1280x1024px, which is the highest that the digimatrix
> does, tho it occures to me writing this that it may not be as large
> as 1080i allows.   Didn't have to mess with modelines or anything,
> and it doesn't have any overscan problems.  I don't know how much of
> that is my tv and how much is the digimatrix.
>
>      I got it at NewEgg for just under $300 before tax/shipping  You
> need to add a hd, memory and cpu.  The CPU has to be a P4/Celeron
> Northwood core, which can bit a bit tough to find.  I had to go to
> ebay, but it was still only around $90.  The whole thing was around
> $420, using a hd that I already had lying around.
>
>      So far it's been great for me, except for the problems I'm
> having figuring out how to configure the tuner.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Darley

yea, 1920x1080 is 1080i, and the video card should support that resolution, I 
was concerned more with processing power, but I think the Northwood can be 
had in speeds that will be able to playback this stream.

Thanks!
Steve