[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Video Cardsa and TV Out

[Chris Cox]

Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> This is mostly off topic unless I decided to see if I
> can get the new Unreal 2004 game to run on linux....
> 
> An XBOX is basically a PC. How does it get graphics
> to show up good on a standard TV when PC Video out
> cards do such a poor job. Or do the newer video
> cards with TV out do a better job than they used to?
> 
> I'd like to move a PC into the TV room and use it
> to play games and surf the net on the TV. but I just
> remember how bad the TV out used to be. Has it gotter
> better?
> 
> Now to move this to more of a linux discussion... if
> I do want to try and get a video card doing TV Out...
> do the linux xwindows Radeon 9XXX drivers support
> TV out or am I going to have to do some software
> updates and what not just to see what the picture
> will look like.
> 

Don't look at card models.. look at the chipset (if you
can) of the video in/out.

See:
http://tvtool.info/english/tvchips_e.htm

Go with a conexant based board.