jasondscott

i have a sony wide screen monitor with hdtv inputs, has anyone noticed a difference when using hdtv vs monitor output with radeon allinwonder x 800xt?

Zandro

i guess we are talking about a CRT screen? a little more specs about the screen would help
Why in the world would you want to use HDTV input?
it wont improve your image quality in any way... using the VGA connection is better

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jasondscott

it seems you've answered my question, I guess hdtv output on card is only useful or better with dvd playback? or not? monitor is 2 years old. sony sdm72W PC, COMPOSITE, S-VIDEO, & HDTV inputs.

rhapsody_

If you can use HDTV, you should do that ! A better image and gameplay

Tango

I have used HDTV.Saw the picture,but no colors and sound.

Image is pretty cool,big and neat.

Zandro

It`s a *computer monitor* we are talking about not a 50" plasma tv.
If you got an analog CRT monitor with both VGA and HDTV connection
you should use the VGA connector since it gives better image quality
than the HDTV connection does. The HDTV connector is there for studio use
HDTV only supports 480i, 720p and 1080i @ 60hz while the VGA supports
anything between 50hz to 200hz and resolutions as high as the gfx card
is abel to support support (monitor dependant)

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konai_konai666

Ahh, that would be becasue you probably weren't seeing HDTV at all, being that the colors come from two of the video connections (one blue, one red), and the black and white you saw was because the black (I think thats the color if not green) cable you plugged in was the white/black signals and you had the TV set to display from a composite video input (yes, the white/black still shows from the component cable on your composite input).. From there all you had to do was switch it to the correct component input (if you had more than one on the particular TV). This black-and-white effect when not on the right input will happen on every TV that has the component inputs, as for no sound, -the fact that it wasn't on the right input to begin with explains the whole lot.
I've tried the HDTV-out on my x850 XT PE and though it looks really big and cool, you notice all the small problems and most times the textures in the games tend to look a bit blurrier than they should aswell as the overall image more pixelated due to the shear size of the screens [i'd say starting at about 32"] (the large size being the whole point for HDTV to begin with).. I'd say if getting a card for HDTV gaming, an x1800 XT is actually the first such card truely capable of 1080i/P, though the x800's should be able to do 1024pixel images to 720P without a problem (1024x unfortunately being the maximum capable output to TV on x850 and lower)..