Report: DVD on your TV with a PC – Tips for TV-Out (7/9)

Other cards: ATi and Matrox

The ATi way: Rage Theater Chip

Full featured TV-Out including DualView has traditionally been the domain of ATi and Matrox cards, so it comes as no surprise that their cards with TV-Out support this feature. To enable the overscan option on ATi Rage Theater based cards, you'll need to do a little registry hacking, though. Create a new DWORD under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ATI_Technologies\Driver\000x\DAL

called TVEnableOverscan and set the value to 1. The x stands for the number your current card is using.

ATi´s TV-Out properties. Here on a RADEON 64 VIVO

Matrox offers a tool called DVDMax for its TV-Out cards, which outputs a zoomed overlay to the TV, similar to the way NVIDIA's TwinView tool does. Unlike the TwinView tool, DVDMax had no problems playing and displaying DVDs as well. Interestingly the Matrox cards had trouble with displaying DVDs on the monitor. The borders were now on the desktop instead of the TV and I was unable to get rid of them. Interesting trade-off...

Das DVD Max Feature on the G450 DualHead

Conclusion: Well, 3D performance isn't everything. Where Video-Out is concerned, NVIDIA has a thing or three to learn from Matrox and ATi.

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