On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:15:28PM -0700, Blair wrote: > Just in case; > > Hey Brad, It just occurred to me that folks might not realize that with this > latest generation of nVidia Cards, a new set of TV formats have been > implemented as options for the TV Out port on the cards. You may now do stuff > like; > > Option "TVStandard" "HD480i" or > Option "TVStandard" "HD1080i" or any of the other HDTV output formats > > It is possible that there is some sort of scan converter onboard the card but > I don't know tis for a fact. For example, the TVOne box ($250) that I > mentioned earlier takes a 1600x1200 signal and creates a 1080i (or whatever) > output format. The 6 series cards look suspiciously familier in this regard.
Well, I don't know about that card with its component outputs, but all "xvideo" cards (including nvidia) have a "scan converter" in that the xvideo hardware converts an image (such as a 1920 x 1080 one) to a smaller resolution -- in fact any size you tell it to though it won't go below a certain level with a full 1080i. The audio authority box has no scan converter. You must feed it a 1920x1080i signal on your VGA if that's what you want it to put out as component video. However, the nvidia cards are easily capable of that. The tvone sounds like overkill since you already have the downscaler in your video card -- almost any modern video card, even the $30 nvidias will do this.
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