Quality tv-out on Ati Graphics card?

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Hans van den Tillaart

Hi,

How is the quality of watching TV trought TV-out on the Ati Graphics cards?
Are there improvements made on the new ( XT versus non XT )cards?
How is the quality compared to my old Matrox G400 ( Is this still the best
TV looking graphics card)??
I am considering buying the Asus 9600 XT/TVD card.

Regards,
Hans van den Tillaart
 
If all you want to do is 2D, stick with Matrox.

If you want ultimate 3D performance, that is when you want to go to ATI.

DD
 
I happen to have both at my home computers....G400 at the "office" pc, and
R9600 on the "game" pc. Using (the exact same) s-video cable to connect to
(the exact same) tv-set I really can't tell any difference. On the monitor
the G400 is slightly better (sharper at higher resolutions) as expected.

There is one thing though on the TV-outs where G400 is better then
Radeon...G400 actually supports 16:9 widescreen TV. There is a 16:9 setting
in Radeon Catalyst settings (3.8 or newer) but it doesn't do anything,
atleast not for me it doesn't; tv-out stays 4:3 despite the setting. On the
G400 when set to 16:9 it works exactly the way it is supposed to. I can get
the Radeon image to view fullscreen on my 16:9 tv, but I have to set the tv
to "zoom in" the 4:3 image in letterbox mode. This sacrifices vertical
resolution, but as I said earlier you really can't tell the difference
between the two tv-out images (you might if you have a super-hifi-high-end
tv-set).
 
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