G450 e-tv

[PETERLEE]

iwould like to ask a favour please.. i live in "pal" land, i`m thinking of upgrading my aging g200, to a g450 e tv. in view of people reporting flickering picture etc, i wonder if people who have this card & the problem please post their setups , motherboards etc. i have an abit bx133raid and i realise i have to upgrade my processor from 500 celeron to plll ighz . any help appreciated
thank you

peter.......

[JTA]

Hello Peterlee,

I have some bad news for you, I'm afraid :

My G450 is linked to cable-tv here in Belgium, and all I can say is that about half of all the channels have snow or interference, so I'm NOT impressed with the TV-reception qualities of it's tuner.

Furthermore, you CAN'T change the frequencies manually. You CAN perform a semi-automated frequency scan, but this didn't change a bit for my system : channels that were bad before stayed bad afterwards.

I have a 1.5 GHz Thunderbird (AMD) on an Aopen motherboard, with 512 MB of RAM. I guess you can't buy much faster nowadays

[JJHamster]

Hi Peterlee,

I have the dreaded problem with my set up -
Asus A7V, TB1gig, SB Live.
From what I've read the problem can exist on many setups, not just VIA/AMD.
If I were you I'd hang to your cash and see if new drivers sort the problem. I bought my 450eTV in May and have been moaning about the problem to Matrox ever since - 6 months down the line I am no closer to a solution.

Regards

JJ

PS tuning in the TV (at least in North Yorkshire) is difficult to say the least - again Matrox say this will be fixed at some time in the future.

[Topha]

Here in germany i have NO problems with the card, i just love it.

Abit KT7A mobo, 1,2 gig athlon

everything works great

[JJHamster]

Topha,

Wow, have you no problems with DVD through PAL TV out? Even Matrox admit to the problem (on the driver readme file - not on the box!). What sound card have you got? Did the tuner auto detect as it should?

JJ