Thanks for the input, folks!
Headband, my HDTV has component, composite, SVideo and antenna inputs. If you look on the ATI website, they show their AIW cards as having DVI, VGA, Svideo and component outputs. Component is not the same as SVideo. Svideo is marginally better than a composite output, but does not compare to component output. (They are easily confused.)
SVideo and composite are at the 480i level, whereas component can pull 1080i/720p all day long. I can see the difference between my 480i Svideo connection and my 480i composite output on my DVD player, but it a HUGE difference when I switch between my 480i component output to 1080i component output on my HDTV receiver. The difference is night/day.
So back to the ATI AIW 9800. It has component output capable of 1080i (and higher, but my TV won't support it) and would be a huge increase over my 4200Ti... will the ATI cards see a price drop in the next month or so? (Best educated guesses, please.) Will the 6800 support HDTV? (No doubt that the 6800 whupped some SERIOUS butt in the benchmarks!) Thanks again for the input!
Mark
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Originally posted by HeadBand
does your tv have a dvi input...if it dosent you will be stuck using svideo which has poor quality on any tv
a week or so ago i heard the radeon x800s were coming out the 26th but then today i heard they would come out the 4th and be retail that day and the x800 xt would be availible the 14th
the benchmarks i have seen the 6800U whoops the 9800 XT so i think it would be worth waiting a couple weeks but before you buy i would look at some benches on the x800 vs the 6800
and i dont think aiw cards will be availible when they first come out so you might want to think of just a seperate AIW pci card even if you go with a 9800 pro it only has 1 dvi plug so you will need to be switching you monitor and tv alot |
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