RE: Re: [ADVERT] Price drop on Black Gold Freeview TV Tu ners and MCE Starter Kits

["Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

IMHO this is an aera where Tivo still does the business

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: gigtekmediacomputers [mailto:stuartmc@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 17 May 2005 12:18
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: [ADVERT] Price drop on Black Gold Freeview TV
Tuners and MCE Starter Kits


Quick answer is no.

The longer answer is that it is possible to get a VGA to SCART cable
from Keene Electronics that works with some ATI graphics cards and can
drive a standard TV SCART socket.

If you fancy making the cable up yourself or want to see how its done
look here: http://ryoandr.free.fr/english.html
Please read the
warnings as well as there does seem to be some issues.

You can also use Powerstrip to tweak your output to closer match your
analogue TV. This can produce acceptable results within the MCE
interface but not in Windows mode.  More on PS here:
http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm

Main issue is that we are all used to high resolutions on our PC
displays 1024X768 as a minimum. If you switch your PC back to 640X480
(nearer to TV standard) you would find that it is pretty much unusable
for most things.

Not sure if this helped much, perhaps I should have just left it at
NO!!

S.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Rob Mouser" <rob@m...> wrote:
>
> > Don't forget if you just need advice on MCE we're happy to help
if we
> > can.
>
> Stuart,
>
> Is their a viable composite or s-video out feed available for any
MCE
> hardware yet?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Rob