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GeForce4 Ti4400 and Ti4600 ViVo
a tom's hardware guide says the vivo on these cards it ****, have they fixed
it with new drivers? (this review is over a year old) "ViVo and Image Quality In our last roundup of 21 GeForce3 Ti cards, we criticized the poor TV-output offered by these boards. Unfortunately, this situation has not improved with the GeForce4 family. As before, a black border frames the output on PAL TVs. The reason is that NVIDIA's drivers still offer no overscan options for changing the output size, even though the encoder chips found on the cards would support such a feature. Also, the output quality isn't on par with what we're used to seeing from notebook chips, for example. At least the GeForce4 Ti boards can now output images to both the monitor and the TV simultaneously using different refresh rates, thanks to the second RAMDAC. Again, nView comes in very handy in this mode. " http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic...0_4600-02.html |
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"James" none wrote:
a tom's hardware guide says the vivo on these cards it ****, have they fixed it with new drivers? (this review is over a year old) I believe so, I have an MSI Geforce4 Ti4200, and the TV output is superb quality, the color balance on the tv is even better than on my monitor, same with the brightness. I read several reviews on my card and they said that TV out was exceptional, as well, compared to older Geforce3 models, etc. As with video-in, I cannot say, but I've heard/read positive things. It's not for professional video editting, but it should suffice. I use an MSI TV anywhere for capturing and it's quality is splendid compared to older generation TV capture cards. |
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I believe so, I have an MSI Geforce4 Ti4200, and the TV output is
superb quality, the color balance on the tv is even better than on my monitor, same with the brightness. It's a YMMV situation for GF4 owners. The TV-Out quality on my Gainward TI 4400 card is terrible. NVidia has left support for overscan out for the chip on this card (it's the first generation Philips VIVO chip) and the picture quality isn't that good at all. I've been very disappointed and have had to stick with the Chrontel NTSC encoder that's on my old Pure3D card. I hear that the FX cards have native TV-out support and that it's much improved. As for video in, I've found it to be a nice bonus to be able to capture analog video. |
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