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nVidia Geforce2 s-vid TV Performance
jaydog:
on the Micron PC website they offer two types of nVidia Gefore2 cards, one with TV out and one with TV out and DVI, what is DVI anyway?
Jakobud:
DVI is just a better type of monitor connection, just like the VGA one of the back of video cards. It stands for Digital Video Interface. Its digital instead of analog vga.
Anyways, I have a ASUS GeForce2 MX and the SVideo works great. But you have to be careful when buying certain GeForces, because different manufacturers use different TVOut chipsets. Asus uses good ones, while Elsa for example, uses bad ones, from what I have read.
Jakobud
Lilwolf:
One more note. DVI is mainly used for LCD screens.
Bob Feagins:
I am doing similar investigations for a GeForce 4 Ti4600. From what I gather, the Phillips TV out chip is much better than the Conexant TV out chip. Can anyone confirm this? Most reviews don't say much about the TV out quality, or which chip each card uses. One review I've seen mentions that Gainward's version of the Ti4600 comes with the Phillips chip.
tetsu96:
TV out on NVidia boards with the Conexant chip suck - it's years old and NVidia's never written drivers to really take advantage of it (the chip really is good, but again, it's potential is wasted).