RE: HTPC - Radeon 9250 PCI Card problems.

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fraid so.



S-Video output from most PC cards is pretty darn grim.



The only cards I have found with an even halfway decent TV output are the
ATI All in Wonders (and even then, anything above 640x480 is pretty pants)
and the nvidia 6600 GT (which comes with RGB component outputs).



That being said - there's one gotcha: make sure your card is properly
outputting PAL for the UK rather than PAL-60.



It's one of the things which took me towards the XBox and XBMC - the video
output stage on the XBox is light years ahead of graphics cards.



I guess this is a question for the Windows Media Centre guys - what cards
give a decent MCE quality?



Ian.



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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris Miles
Sent: 06 September 2006 15:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] HTPC - Radeon 9250 PCI Card problems.



I just just purchased the radeon 9250 (PCI) to use in my home theatre PC
system and the s-video tv-out is absolutely terrible... you can barely make
writing out it is so grainy and lifeless - this is on both a small standard
TV and also on a HD LCD. I know there is a DVI out yes.. but it is the
s-video I need to use so as I can use a video matrix that is in my price
range. I have also tried a high quality s-video to composite cable and a
high quality s-video to s-video cable.

Surely its not supposed to be this bad? if so why bother even have it? :/

Chris

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