Someone 'Splain " HDTV Decoder & HDTV Video Scaler to me.

[MrBigglesworth]

The press releases all mention a TV encoder, and the chip diagram shows a 10-Bit DVD & HDTV Decoder and such.

So what does this mean? Will I just need to get an HDTV Tuner and pipe it into the card or what.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Marshmallowman]

I think it is just a very good TV Out..which can scale your resolution up/down
....eg dvd 720 to 1020 for HDTV
and say 2048x1600 desktop down 800x600 for a normal TV

I would like it to be a Video in, but I think that is just wishful thinking

[Marshmallowman]

hopefully it'll do stuff line line doubleing & deinterlacing...etc for *THE BEST* dvd plaback

[GNEP]

and it mentions PAL and NTSC

[piaxVirus]

I think the HDTV support is for the next gen DVD format that will have HDTV encoded video on them.