What do I look for in a Video card with DVR capabilities?

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What do I want to look for in a video card with DVR capabilities? I know it
has to have 256mb ram and directx 9 support supposedly but what else do I
need to look for when I do go out and buy one? Also will someone recommend
me a video card with tv/dvr capabilities that will work with vista and do
all the features? I saw the first VISTA ready video card on circuit city.com
and it's $529.
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/EVGA...47050/catOid/-13043/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
thank you for your help and patience. Now that I belong to MSDN I am really
excited to get to try VISTA!!!!
 
You pretty much have basics of what is required in a Windows Vista supported
video card. 256 MBs should be more than enough to give you the full
experiences that Vista has to offer. As for DVR capabilities, this is really
in the hands of the manufacturers, so you need to stay in touch with nVidia
and ATI, they are the ones who will be responsible for making DVR support
under Vista possible.
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Andre Da Costa said:
You pretty much have basics of what is required in a Windows Vista
supported video card. 256 MBs should be more than enough to give you the
full experiences that Vista has to offer. As for DVR capabilities, this is
really in the hands of the manufacturers, so you need to stay in touch
with nVidia and ATI, they are the ones who will be responsible for making
DVR support under Vista possible.
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the ati all in wonder 2006 looks neat but it doesn't look like it has
directx 9 support though. Is it supported by vista?
 
Andre Da Costa said:
You pretty much have basics of what is required in a Windows Vista
supported video card. 256 MBs should be more than enough to give you the
full experiences that Vista has to offer. As for DVR capabilities, this is
really in the hands of the manufacturers, so you need to stay in touch
with nVidia and ATI, they are the ones who will be responsible for making
DVR support under Vista possible.
--
--
Andre
Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com
Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
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Would it be safer to wait til vista was closer to release to get a video
card with dvr capabilities? I'm looking on the sites and I can't seem to
find any video cards with dvr capabilities at all let alone ones that will
run vista. The ones I do find only have 128mb ram. I want at least
256,right?
 
michael e dziatkowicz said:
Would it be safer to wait til vista was closer to release to get a video
card with dvr capabilities? I'm looking on the sites and I can't seem to
find any video cards with dvr capabilities at all let alone ones that will
run vista. The ones I do find only have 128mb ram. I want at least
256,right?
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You don't strictly need 256MB to get the Glass effects, but the more memory
the better. I have had glass working just fine on an ATi 9700 Pro with 128MB
ram, running dual monitors at 1600x1200.
 
Slugsie said:
You don't strictly need 256MB to get the Glass effects, but the more
memory the better. I have had glass working just fine on an ATi 9700 Pro
with 128MB ram, running dual monitors at 1600x1200.
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Ok I use 1024x768. What does NVIDIA have out that might interest me? Since
ATI doesn't have much out that might interest me right now. I really want
the TV capabilities in the card but the sad thing is I have a media center
pc I spent $2000 on and I think I used it the first day and haven't since,
mainly because I don't have an extra outlet for cable tv.
 
What is with Microsoft's bizarre memory requirement for Media Center video?

Mpeg-2 standard definition plays fine on ancient S3 PCI cards with 1MB.
High definition can't possible use more than 16MB on a AGP 2X card.
 
Slugsie said:
You don't strictly need 256MB to get the Glass effects, but the more
memory the better. I have had glass working just fine on an ATi 9700 Pro
with 128MB ram, running dual monitors at 1600x1200.
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For a 5 year old spare computer I just bought a cheap $50-60 ASUS A9550/TD
which is a clone of the ATI using their Radon 9550 SE VPU with 128MB of
64-bit DDR memory. the engine clock is 250MHz, the memory clock is 400Mhz it
is AGP buss and can be overclocked. All the standard ATI utilities and
drivers work. It supports a TV out or second VGA monitor. For a few bucks
more you can get it with 256MB memory.

Vista installed the latest ATI vista drivers and I'm running it at 1280x1024
32 bit color and glass on it looks great.
 
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