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HDTV On Your PC - ATi's HDTV Wonder
Spinnerbait writes "ATi is getting their new High Def capable HDTV Wonder ready for release soon and there is a preview of the card over at HotHardware. It will be an add-in PCI card that will be bundled with their All In Wonder cards initially and eventually be sold as a stand alone product. High Def on a nice 23" Flat Panel... time to drool."
Will you be able to see pixel for pixel high res?
It seems to me that this shouldnt be to difficult, technically speaking, considering the 1080 pixel resolution is well within that normally supported on a PC monitor.
....mmmmm...Hi-Def TV....yummy!
I cant wait to get Hi-Def on my TV, have seen it before and it is the ultimate in geek-drool fest!
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Unfortunately there is not much information of what the card can do.
Does it have an MPEG hardware decoder for HDTV, or is it only a tuner and demodulator?
Does it have TV out or can it only display on the monitor?
If the card is only a tuner and demodulator with PCI bridge then it's no big deal. The CPU will have to do all the decoding, maybe with a little help from the graphics card. You can do that with a lot of DVB-S,C,T cards already. With a 60Euro card you could already watch the Superbowl in HDTV, of course you needed a fast CPU.
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Sure if you want to run windows...
I want My HD MythTV...
If it doesn't work with linux, then I don't give a shit one way or the other.
And like most of the All-in-Wonder cards, I doubt half the features will work correctly if at all.
Otherwise I would give up my ancient geforce2 card in a second, but for right now I have no reason to. My 19 inch monitor with my ATI wonder VE tv capture card works great for me right now.
Oh, BTW I use the Nintendo Game cube via the composite input on my ATI card. If you want to play games and get a useable picture get a decent program, like TVTIME. Most tv capture programs for windows that I've seen in stores looks like crap on a monitor, get something that does anti-aliasing properly. Thank god for Free software.
isn't this...it's a hdtv input card that can take component inputs.
Most HDTV uptake will come from HDTV over cable, with the decoding/descrambling done by the cable company box, which produces component outputs.
Then our MythTV boxes will be able to record HDTV!
There have been PCI HDTV cards for years that receive OTA HD. Even a cheap one that only works in Linux!
have you tried pushing your monitor that hard? Best i can make an (admitedly slightly older) G500 21" do is 2000x1500 @ 77Hz; any higher and the pixels distort. What your graphics card can drive it at, without strange effects, is a different question as well: with a matrox g400 i use 10px fonts and stare at this screen all day long; with a nvidia card 12px fonts and 1600x1200 made my eyes melt.
Why is this card better than something like Hauppauge's WinTV-HD? At least the Hauppauge has component outputs standard. I'm guessing it's the price as the Hauppauge isn't cheap. BTW, there's a few more HDTV cards available at places like The Digital Connection.
I did something similar (xbox through a projector) and on any game that was reasonable fast moving, I would get dizzy.
If the image fills most of your field of vision, the movement on screen will trick your brain into thinking it is actually happening. Without the corresponding movement in your body, things can get very weird.
I ended up having to shrink the image, and moving back. The cinematic Halo experience was not for me.
It ended up being a lot like seeing the 'rollercoaster' IMAX. That made me sick too...
No reason to lie.