[Gllug] TV out

[Jonathan Harker]

On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 12:50 am, Stephen Harker wrote:
> But things change. ATI are certainly producing cards that are at least as
> good if not better but NVIDIA has gamer mind-share...

One thing about ATI and Matrox compared to nVidia that is often overlooked is 
image quality. For what ever (marketing) reasons, nVidia don't seem to have 
concentrated so much on image quality (eg. colour saturation, dithering, 
grain, aliasing, etc), and have instead gone for triangles per second.

The ATI Radeon cards are not only fast, but they include gnarly stuff you 
don't find on current nVidia cards, like hardware MPEG decoding and (on the 
snazzy ones) analog video capture, 1394 DV capture and a TV tuner.

The new Matrox parhelia, although not the fastest card, can handle 16 bits per 
colour channel (ie. 64 bit colour - R, G, B, alpha) which looks absolutely 
stunning. Like going from 8 bit to 16 bit sound, it's the differences between 
the extremes - the quiet bits sound better, the dark places look better.

See Tom's Hardware for groovy graphics card reviews, comparisons and benchmark 
charts -
  http://www.tomshardware.com/

Luv Jon

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Jonathan Harker
www.jonathanharker.co.uk


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