Please confirm that MyHD can produce NTSC Signals and Timi..

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Hi,

Until I can save my pennies to get one of the Huge Expensive Displays that
many on this list consider an absolute requirement to enjoy HDTV, I would
like to use my RCA 27" TV as a HDTV display.

I first tried a Firewire connection from my HTPC to my laptop as its ATI
display chip will also drive a TV. The results were very poor and not
acceptable.

After trying about three dozen programs to convert HDTV transport streams to
something that I could burn onto a DVD, I finally found one that worked.

The resulting DVD's when played on my Panasonic player with a "S-Video"
connection to the TV produce a great picture.

Not as spectacular as the HDTV display on my fine pitch Sony 19" Monitor. I
wonder if any HDTV display can match it. I have so far NOT seen any huge
displays that are anywhere close to the extremely sharp pictures produced.

The TV display produced is very acceptable until I gather a ton of pennies.

I started to look for VGA to NTSC converters and found a few, mostly $100
and up. I really would like to try one before spending any money.

Then I discovered the following post which I had saved as an Emergency text
only save. IE after SP2 refuses to save many (most) web pages now for me.

>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Originally posted by obeck
>> So I'd like to get a card that I can use now and in the future,
>> and am wondering what it would take to display HD content (not in HD, of
>> course)
>> from my PC on a TV and have it look as good as possible.
>>
>>
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>
> There are devices that convert VGA to s-video/composite for your TV.
> However, almost all of them scale (bad because the video would be
> scaled twice) and flicker filter the signal, degrading it quite a bit.
> On the other hand, the MyHD can output standard NTSC 480i timing, with
> excellent, unfiltered scaling, except that the format is RGB or component.
> So I obtained an Analog Devices board that converts RGB to s-video
> without processing the video at all.
> It uses exactly the input timing to produce the output image.
> I used this with my 35" SD TV until I got my
> HDTV. Let me know if this sounds interesting, and I'll look back and find
> the details.
>
> Xesdeeni
>

"Xesdeeni" is shown on the Doom9 site as an "advanced" user which may be
where this posting came from. He has made many posts there.

I tried to search the Doom9 site but this time when I clicked on "search" I
was sent to a "Goggle" page which made me "Ga Ga".

I got NO results for any of the key words I tried, and I tried a lot.

I am hopeful that someone here can confirm "Xesdeeni"'s posting and help me
find the necessary information quickly.

I would rather spend my time writing a check for a completed unit (Best) or
if need be putting a board into a box with connectors, PS and so on.

The best confirmation would be a link to the datasheet for the "TeraLogic's
Janus 8VSB decoder"

I can find nothing these days.

TIA

--
Stephen H. Fischer