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Best low cost AGP Video to watch DVD's on my Plasma TV

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ARBenitez   02-08-2007 at 03:53:20 PM

Hello All

We're not gamers - but it appears all the low cost cards are geared to gamers and never emphasize how well they play DVD's.

Build:
Mach Speed P4MSD-800 D2 MicroATX motherboard - AGP slot
Intel Celeron D 352 3.20GHz 533/800FSB
Micro Aluminum chassis - 400-watt PS
40G SATA boot drive
512 DDR2
Sony 16x DVD RW
Soundblaster 24bit sound
(2) external 500Gbyte Disk Drives (the movies)
XP - SP2

TV - Pioneer PDP 60" plasma
available S-Video port, available Composite port, & Component port.
(The VGA port is on the front - that's not acceptable)

What's the BEST AGP video adapter for watching DVD's?

and while we're at it, can anyone recommend a good software player

Warmest regards
Anthony

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needbe   02-08-2007 at 05:32:39 PM
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http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/09/avivo-vs-purevideo/

Read this if you haven't yet, but purevideo costs money to have dvd's hardware acclerated, and avivo is free with a ati card. I tried purevideo's 30 day trial on my 7800gt and 42 inch westinghouse 1080p, its looks amazing. But don't want to pay for it, after spending this much on a video card.

There are several software players that this artical talks about but none of them make it easy to turn on hardware deinterlacing.

Purevideo beat avivo by a hair. Avivo uses less cpu power, cutting a little heat if you use it in a very small place. Proably not enough to worry about.

Avivo works with x1k series, not with a x800 tv tuner card, which would be nice for a home theater box. Purevideo works with 7000 series cards.

I can't wait to see part 2, not sure what will happen with HD video.

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Silver Graphics badge TheGreatGrapeApe   02-08-2007 at 07:53:25 PM
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Are you looking to playback HD-DVDs or BluRay?

Are you trying to upconvert the DVD to a higher resolution?

If not, then a GF7300 or X1300 will be fine for the job, heck even a GF6200 or X300 would likely be more than up to the task.

But if you are upconverting or playing HD media, then you'll want to start at at least a GF7600GT (in which case the cheap GF7800GS on NewEgg makes more sense) or the ATI X1650Pro or higher. Those will have the grunt to upscale images or play back the latest HD material.

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