G450 and TV Tuner Cards

[Computeman]

Question 1: Does the G450 support "Overlay"?
Question 2: Are there any recommendations for Tuner Cards?

Thanks

[SteveC]

Answer 1: I think virtually any card made in the last 4 years should support Overlay.

Answer 2: Almost any - I've used Matrox' (but can't have one on a G450), Hauppauge's, Askey's (generic bt848), etc etc and really they're all as good as each other. Half the time one company's drivers work on another's hardware too. I'd say a named product though, like Hauppauge would be a good idea for support purposes.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Kruzin]

Or you could wait for G450eTV, which will have it's own tuner...

[az]

based on c't tests i'd say hauppauge, and the g450 eTV does look really nice, but we're still waiting for it, and i doubt it will be cheap.. (and if i were to buy a new graphics card, i'd wait for matrox's next product (but this would be a long wait, considering matrox's speed in getting out new cards) or a kyro II)

AZ

[Computeman]

Well I will look into the hauppauge card because I allready have the g450 and am not wanting to buy another video card untill something really impresses me and not much out there currently does... More than a matrox product...

Thanks for the info...

[Maggi]

yep, go for Hauppauge ...

I recommend to use some free TV apps, instead of the ones Hauppauge inckudes, because the latter uses some wierd overlay mode which is not supported by DVD Max.

http://freetv.321host-it.com/
offers quite a few TV apps and MoreTV for example gives you creamy TV fullscreen via DVD Max.

Cheers,
Maggi

[joelau]

How good is the image quality for hauppauge ?
Example running desktop at 1600x1200x85Hz ?
Does it cause any blurness in Windows display ?

Regards.

[Greebe]

I have the Hauppauge WinTV pci card and it looks fine on the G450 cept them odd jaggies produced on moving objects within a scene. (looks like they're produced by incorrectly filtering a scan doubler)

The DTV version from what I understand doesn't have this problem.

[redtomato]

"Any tv tuner card" means, g450 can work very well with ATI TV wonder?

[Taz]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Kruzin:
Or you could wait for G450eTV, which will have it's own tuner...</font>

It's available in the UK and has been for a while

[Kruzin]

Yea...it is now.
Months ago when I posted that, it wasn't

[atreu59]

I have the G450 eTV... Very nice card by the way...

One of the main reasons why I bought it was for the video capture. However, anywhere I try to grab something, I get denied due to copy protection. So now I have spent $200 for a feature that is useless. I have scoured a few newsgroups for a patch with no luck. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thankx in advance,

Chris

[Kruzin]

Try our own Desktop Video forum, where all the Matrox videophiles post and answer questions...

[atreu59]

Thankx!