Dual display and tv out

[Mazark]

Hello, i am about to buy either a ati radeon 9800 pro or a equal value nvidia card ($200 bucks limit). The main drive for me is I want to have dual display, which both are capable of. The question I am having is the role the S-video out plays in dual display.

I am going to use the dual vga out for 2 monitor displays, but i was wondering if tv out is still available while doing this.

If it is available, does the S-video out line limited by cloning one of the other monitors, or does it get it's own desktop.

The work i am doing is video editing, so i want the dual monitors as workspace and the tv out to be a full screen video preview.

So i guess the question is which card, ati or nvidia, has the most control with tv-out while in dual monitor mode.

 

[rook]

The ATI 9800 pro only supports 2 displays, so the TV will clone one of the monitors. But that only works if one of the monitors is an LCD (or other digital display) using the DVI and not a DVI-to-CRT adabter. So it will not work with 2 CRTs and a TV. I'm not sure on the Nvidia I don't have one of those.
So you may need a second PCI video card to acheive the results you want.

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[Mazark]

Really? Can anyone confirm that the ati radeon 9800 pro can ONLY do dual display with one connection being DVI. Also I need some input on nvidia's multi display functionality plz =D.

 

[rook]

If you check <A HREF="http://ati.com/support/manualpdf/RADEON9800.pdf" target="_new">here</A> and go to page 6 it lists the available configs.

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