<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div>On 11/24/06, Ron Blanchett <rrcb21@yahoo.com> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> You should be ok with only a pcHDTV card mine works fine but YMMV.<br>> the Geforce 7600GS doesn't have an "integrated HDTV encoder" it has<br>> "High-definition H.264, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration"<br>> which is not the same as having an encoder or a decoder.<br><br><br>----- Original Message ----<br>From: Wolfger <wolfger@gmail.com><br><br>Not to call you a liar or anything, but I copied and pasted<br>"integrated HDTV encoder" right off the product page. Are you saying<br>that this is false advertising?<br><a target="_blank"
href="http://new.pny.com/7600-GS-512MB-AGP--P1897C14.aspx">http://new.pny.com/7600-GS-512MB-AGP--P1897C14.aspx</a><br><br></div></div><br><br>Not to call PNY a lier but I pulled my text right from NVidia's page on the 7600GS.<br>PNY's marketing department may have overstated the capabilities of the card or <br>PNY deviated from the reference specs provided by NVidia. The later my be the <br>truer of the two. Also PNY states that the aforementioned "integrated HDTV encoder" <br>"<span id="_ctl0_lowerContent_Productdetails2_1_lblDesc2">
Provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution."<br>After a brief search on the web the only interface of the three listed that is capable of <br>providing HDTV output is the Component Video output, but it is an analog output.<br>HDTV is a digital medium so even over the Component output you are going to<br>have degraded video. I don't even see why this card would have such outputs since<br>the DVI port on the card should be a digital port and would provide a much better interface<br>for displaying HDTV.<br><br>I would suggest not buying that card just for its "</span>integrated HDTV encoder". If you are<br>going to do HD do it with an HD tuner card like the pcHDTV card or one just like it.<br>They provide a native interface to HDTV and you would not need the "integrated HDTV encoder"<br>on this PNY card. And the pcHDTV card coupled with the NVidia's "High-definition H.264, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration" you will be fine. Heck currently
all HDTV is broadcast in MPEG2, but a shift to MPEG-4 for HDTV broadcasts is in the pipe for some point in the future. <br><br>-Ron<br> </div></div></body></html>