Michael,
I wish there was a DVI or VGA connector too.
It's worse than I thought too, as reading the faq on the
Winischhoffer site, I find:
Q: High resolution modes such as 1024x768 and 1280x720/1280x1024 look
quite bad in 720p/750p and 1080i mode. How come?
A: The video bridges' TV encoder is only capable of delivering 800
real pixels of video data. This despite the fact that 720p/750p and
1080i are supposed to be used with higher resolutions than 800 pixels
per line. Higher resolutions than 800 will be scaled down. Not only
is this a big disadvantage to start with, the downscaler also is a
really bad one. Well, it's cheap hardware. At least 1024x576 doesn't
look too bad. I mostly use 960x540 in 1080i mode and I can live very
well with it.
Man, what a croc! I feel like I was mislead by the marketing
materials. While I like the look of the box, I'm not as impressed
with the hardware in it.
Since I don't have any hd content to display anyway, would I be
better off with 720 x 480? I guess I'll try that, and the 960x540
that the faq suggests.
If I ever get any hd content I guess I'll look into VGA-
>Component conversion.
Thanks,
Peter Darley
On Oct 25, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
Peter Darley wrote:
Indeed, it has the component input that I'm using.
Oh. I saw TV out and was thinking NTSC/PAL and thought the
limitation was on your card's defined sizes for modes it would
scale to NTSC/PAL. Since you're using component output, using a
size much larger than 720x480/576 makes sense.
But, I was hoping there was a VGA or DVI connection available on
the TV so you could totally circumvent the TV out circuitry.
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