[huskerlug] Re: TV-out

On Wednesday 25 June 2003 03:03 pm, you wrote:
> The picture is very poor especially on text.
>
> Whether you use RCA or S-Vid doesn't matter.   The card converts to
> NTSC which is about 300-350 horizontal lines of resolution.   Which
> is half quality of 800x600.
>
> There are some exceptions.   If you have component in direct to the
> tv you will receive a little better quality resolution.   But
> anytime you downgrade to ntsc, you take a huge resolution hit.
>
> The only way to achieve a decent picture on your computer is have a
> multimedia monitor/tv with VGA inputs.   They are becoming more
> populous in the new tv's.
>
> I suggest building the piece of crap pc for mp3's and getting a $50
> dvd player.  After all, you're going to pay almost that for a
> tv-out card.

I have an ATI rage 128 and an ATI Wonder TV card.
I get excellent video quality on TV (via my cable connection) and I=20
can funnel output from my Hi8 Sony VCR into the TV card=20

=2D-=20
=2D
GrayGeek

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