RE: Re: [ADVERT] Price drop on Black Gold Freeview TV Tuners and MCE Starter Kits

["Rob Mouser" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So is this 6600 supported by MCE?

Many thanks,

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Phil Harris
> Sent: 17 May 2005 13:17
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: [ADVERT] Price drop on Black Gold Freeview
TV
> Tuners and MCE Starter Kits
>
> gigtekmediacomputers wrote:
>
> >Quick answer is no.
> >
> >The longer answer is that it is possible to get a VGA to SCART
cable
> >from Keene Electronics that works with some ATI graphics cards and
can
> >drive a standard TV SCART socket.
> >
> >If you fancy making the cable up yourself or want to see how its
done
> >look here: http://ryoandr.free.fr/english.html
Please read the
> >warnings as well as there does seem to be some issues.
> >
> >You can also use Powerstrip to tweak your output to closer match
your
> >analogue TV. This can produce acceptable results within the MCE
> >interface but not in Windows mode.  More on PS here:
> >http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm
> >
> >Main issue is that we are all used to high resolutions on our PC
> >displays 1024X768 as a minimum. If you switch your PC back to
640X480
> >(nearer to TV standard) you would find that it is pretty much
unusable
> >for most things.
> >
> >Not sure if this helped much, perhaps I should have just left it
at
> >NO!!
> >
> >S.
> >
> >
> Hmmmm ... I'm a bit anal on image quality (I think that's a tad of an
> understatement) and Li (from Laser.com) and I went over to have a bit
of
> a session at an even more AV obsessed friends place with a network
> attached DVD player that he's doing a bit of a project on.
>
> Anyway, after whacking through God knows how many test discs and
> comparisons with a few other DVD players that we had lying about we
had
> a set of notes to send off to the manufacturers for a few more things
> that we wanted changed before we consider it finished and then settled
> down for a good old natter.
>
> One of the things that came up was that my friend had started using
his
> PC as a PVR (using the Nebula cards and not MCE) which suprised me
given
> that he had always been (same as me) very scathing about the output
> quality from PC graphics cards. Thing is he showed me the output from
> this 6600 card via S-Vid into his CRT projector (he has a 9"
tubed Sony
> whereas I only have a couple of 7" tubed NECs so his is better
for us to
> test kit on) and it was *REALLY ACCEPTABLE* - I was suprised as hell!
>
> If you are interested and can get over to Winchester I'll have a chat
> with my friend and see if he'd be OK with us visiting and taking a
look
> (he's a bit of a recluse I'm afraid).
>
> Phil
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