[mythtv-users] Nvidia 260 yuv gives better image quality

[Brian Wood]

On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 11:25:02 am Andre wrote:

> 
> Nvidia cut corners for speed, in hardware & software, for a long time no
> broadcast engineer would use Nvidia because they knew they would be
> chasing out of spec timings and illegal colours for ever after.

I think that's true of their consumer-oriented products (primarily the GeForce line), which are (or at least were) aimed 
primarily at gamers, who couldn't care less about specs and legal colors, they are only interested in what their "frames 
per second" readout says, and care nothing about what the screen might actually look like. They mainly want bragging 
rights, these are the same people who talk about "ping time" as if it were some accurate measure of network performance.

But nVidia's higher end products, mostly the Quadro line, were aimed at CAD/CAM users, who did care, but those products 
were very pricey, and not generally used except for very high end graphics workstations.