I'm finding it to be a pain. Here are some pains I have seen:
[Wow, long list! - thanks! :) Responding to ones I have questions about; filing the rest away.]
a) Getting your video card to display on the HDTV can be a lot of work, requires pushing the edge, newer drivers etc. Often this leads to hard crashing and upgrade troubles.
a2) Many HDTVs won't actually take input at 720p. a3) DVI can be harder to get going than other output forms.
l) Did I mention it can be a bitch to get your card to drive your HDTV at 1920 x 1080? Many people give up and drive at 1920 x 540p (but then you get interlace artifacts if not careful.)
I've got my TV running at 1280p already; it seems to work quite well for regular tv. Will that not be the case for playing HDTV-encoded programs?
d) DVD playing needs to be modified to understand 16:9 TVs
All I had to do (for dvd rips, haven't actually used a disc to playback in a long time) is change the mplayer options to include '-monitoraspect 16:9'; works quite well here.
j) AC-3 sound is not handled well. The center channel will be missing sometimes. Alsa drivers have bugs, and can cause jittery audio or hanging.
AC-3 works fine for DVD rips for me; is it a different case for HD playback since it's handled by Myth's audio layer?
And I have heard more.
Thanks again for the list!
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