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Card and codec to upgrade to HDTV screen
Hi
I am about to upgrade my TV from a CRT to a full HD LCD.
I’ll update the graphics card to support it- Tom’s Hardware was suggesting that the ATI 2600 cards will offload the processing on XP, but the Nvidia 8600 won’t (which are the cards/price point I’m looking at). Do people have opinions on what to go with, I was thinking ATI but everyone seems to be talking about Nvidia 8600 here (because they all have them, or because the ATI are causing less trouble…?), so now I am reconsidering.
Has anyone had any trouble with passively cooled versions of either?
Also, codecs. I have been running Nvidia pure video, I suspect if I go to ATI I should switch? Or not? I am sick of losing s/pdif passthrough when I play a dvd so I will probably switch anyway. What are people using from Power DVD- the SE version, or one of the ‘full’ versions and ignoring the player interface? Do I need to worry about HD264, or is that Blu-ray and HD-DVD only- I’ll only be worrying about TV.
Thanks
Ian
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