[mythtv-users] Matrox Millennium G400 MAX

[Brian Wood]

On Monday, October 04, 2010 01:32:42 pm Nicolas Will wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 14:25 -0500, mike at grounded.net wrote:
> > >Yes, old hardware gets stale support... Another dead horse, maybe...
> > 
> > You already motivated me to get the other card so I'll order one now
> > that I better understand myth. That's what I needed to see.
> > Since I'll only use it for non essential SD, it will do fine.
> > 
> > Once that comes in, I'll rebuild again and hopefully, everything
> > should work right out of install right, I mean, TV out and all?
> > Then I can get some hands on and figure out what I'll want for STB's,
> > etc.
> 
> Oh, before you come back shouting (rightly) at me, I believe that most
> newer cards will not do TV out, at least not Composite or S-Video, just
> DVI/HDMI digital or VGA analogue.
> 
> So if you need connectivity to a legacy (again!) TV, watch out!

Composite and S-Video are limited to SD, and nobody wants to sell (or buy) anything that's not HD-capable today.

Marketing to users of old CRT-type monitors and TV sets is just not a viable business model today.