Looking to get a graphics card with TV output (so I can play arcade & neo games on my TV). Any I.T bods out there know what the quality is like on the TV?

I had it on one of my cards a few years ago. Unfortunatly it turned out to be one of the worse cards I have ever used and people will know how I felt if I say Savage 2000.

This card had TV out and was really the only thing going for it.

here are my thoughts

 

 

UK TVs can show a res of 800x600 the US can only do 640x480.

Its doesnt fill the whole screen though cos if you look, TVs are rectangular, 4:3, and monitors are square.

The quality for games is good, for work and using instead of a monitor for general use, its terrible.

Also because general TV quality (when compaired to Monitors) is bad most of the jagged lines are not noticable.

 

Concusion:

To use for work, crap, the windows text is unreadale.

For emulated games, its good, cos the universal poor quality of TVs compaired to monitors, it gets rid of some of the jagged lines that would show on a monitor, plus these games where made for a system with a res simalar to a TV.

For PC games, its still good, but you lose some of the texture quality, but who cares when you have a few mates round playing Fifa on the same screen.

 

Stuart

And its great for outputting all those Jenna Jameson and Tera Patrick avi's too

 

 

get one of the new Radeon VE's they have 3 outputs or something stupid that can all have different displays going at one time. Pic quality from my raeon to the TV is poor for windows but good for DVD. This is using composite connection though I imagine an svideo connection is a lot better.

SVideo is better but not by much. The colours dont bleed in to others as much.

But for what Jay wants it for is good, cos the graphics are not that good compaired to new games and ran on low res screens.

Sound pretty good for what I want, Neo games only run at 640x480.

Any recommendations as far as cards go, cheap as poss as this is really all I'll be using it for (thinking of having a dedicated PC for emulation).

 

Cheers guys

 

Jay

I love emulators.

I have N64 ones SNES, Mega Drive, C64, Callus, MAME, System16 and UAE(Amiga) emulators at the moment.

 

How much have you got to spend? I hear some Geforce 4s have TV out on them?

http://web6.scan.co.uk/productinfo.asp?wpid=19141

Geforce 4 with TV out. You will have your TV out and one of the most advanced graphics for other things too. £99ish

 

http://web6.scan.co.uk/productinfo.asp?wpid=11861

Kyro Videologic with TV out, £67

 

http://web6.scan.co.uk/productinfo.asp?wpid=7193

GeForce2 400MX with TV out for £63

 

http://web6.scan.co.uk/productinfo.asp?wpid=2123

32mb ATI Expert 2000 with TV out £40

 

 

All from Scan in Bolton. They deliver too I think add £10 on the price.

www.scan.co.uk

Click on products then on graphics/VGa in the blue box at the top.

 

Stuart

 

[This message has been edited by SRRAE (edited 20-03-2002).]

i got a msi ge force 2 with tv out &av out 64 meg /£70 odd quid from www.express-computers.com

no camplaint here

what all me movies on the tellie

 

 

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dont buy the g4 mx its not what it proports to be for the same money you can but the asus g3ti200 with tv/dvi outand runs quicker than the g4mx....if you do want a g4 make sure its the mx600 ti its easy to tell apart as its about 300 quid doesnt the radeon 8500 come with tv out as well