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HDTV capable Video Cards?

Posted by Cliff on from the who-wants-ntsc-anyway? dept.

HaeMaker asks: "I am wondering if there are any hardware vendors working on video cards capable of producing the odd resolutions in the HDTV format (like 1080x1920!). I just got a 65" HDTV and would love to hook a PC up to it and get better than NTSC standard analog."

6 comments

  1. HDTV PCI Card Due out SOON.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    TeVCA Technologies will soon be releasing an HDTV PCI tuner card for US$995. The card receives all 18 modes of HDTV, and has external NSTC outputs for RCA and SVideo and also to FireWire--simultaneously.

    http://www.hdtv.net

    ( I pulled this from http://www.ugeek.com )
    -ENJOY!

    1. Re:HDTV PCI Card Due out SOON.... by Earl+Shannon · · Score: 1

      He was not concerned with being able to receive HDTV signals. At least he didn't mention that in his post. What he wanted to know was if someone manufactures a video card that will allow him to use his HDTV display as a display device for his computer. I am curious about this as well. I've seen a wide screen display on a Sun box, and it looked good!. But that was using an SBus video adapter. Now that Sun is starting to make machines with PCI buses, they may come out with a video adapter for this wide screen display that is PCI based.

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  2. Please reread the original post by Earl+Shannon · · Score: 1

    Go back and look at the resolution he was asking about. It 1080X1920. While I cannot speak to the 1920 number, I do know that one of the HDTV formats is 1080i, where the i refers to interlace. This is 1080 lines. I would guess the 1920 number is not unreasonable, particularly in view of the fact that the screen has a different aspect ratio than most all current computer monitors available. Basically, what he wants to do is use his new HDTV screen as a display device for his computer. If I had bought one, so would I!

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  3. what you can do for the time being by chaos4u · · Score: 1

    if you have a video card that has video out you can slide by with 640X480 or possibly 800X600
    on your hdtv ... how this may look is questionable as i have yet to be able to try this ... a good card would be the matrox g400 max
    or the spectra 2500 (dont know if the 5400 will do the following ) as if i am not mistaken both will allow you to boot to the tv without a monitor. as far as the max res though no video card that i am aware off has these features ... nvidia is supposedly working on one but it is months off.

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  4. Res? Yes. Format? I doubt it. by Anonymous+Freak · · Score: 1

    Well, plenty of video cards are capable of that resolutions (I'm running a Matrox G200 at 1920x1080 right now on a 21" monitor.) Unfortunately, I don't know of any that support the DTV signal (which is directly digital, and very high bandwidth.)

    I saw a review of a (not yet released) video card that will have DTV out at HDTV resolutions, but I don't remember where. Try searching on /.

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  5. Check out the X Video Timings HOWTO by jfunk · · Score: 1

    Check out this link:
    X video timings HOWTO