[mythtv-users] Which video card to buy?

[Brian Wood]

David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Brian Wood wrote:
>> Yeah, we started out in the 80's driving our TV sets, a major step up
>> from the ASR-33 teletypes.
>>
>> Gradually computer monitors got "better", as we moved to CGA, then  
>> EGA,
>> then VGA... (I'll leave out "hercules").
> 
> Aw, why?  ;)  Frankly, its 720x348 monochrome graphics were more  
> useful than CGA's 640x200 monochrome or 320x200 "four ugly colors"  
> modes.

Yeah, first they told us that green was scientifically chosen to be
easiest on our eyes. Then they decided they were wrong, and everyone
should buy an amber monitor. Then they decide that perhaps "paper white"
was the best, a technology that was pioneered in the 1950s.

Great marketing: Make everyone buy 3 or 4 monitors with the same resolution.

> 
>> So now we're back to trying to drive TV sets.
>>
>> But TV sets are getting "better".
> 
> Although, unlike computer monitors, they're getting *more* expensive  
> as they get better instead of less. ;)

The ones with "better" features are getting more expensive perhaps, but
a basic 32" LCD that will do 1080i costs far less today than 2 years ago.

beww