Radeon 9200, does it work? (3 Viewers)

[jawbroken]

Are you sure that the graphiccards work with the new copy protection thing?

It allways was my understanding that there has to be a hardware integrated code which the all retail graphiccard dont have? ! ?

You mean HDCMP or whatever? No retail graphics card has support at the moment, or perhaps ATI just announced one that does?

 

[Pendragon]

If I were you i would take the advice above and buy an ATI card with DX9 support.

And on another topic, if you choose to buy an ATI card, you will have the opportunity to make a VGA-to-ScartRGB cable with an awesome picture quality! I use this and besides getting a bit of overscan, the picture is as good or better than a dvd-player. When you have set up the picture properties correctly, it's hard to tell difference between a hd-tv rip and a real dvd, in compression loss et.c.

It _is_ possible to do this also with a NVidia card but then you have to add some circuitry to the cable to compensate for the hsync+vsync pin that the ATI card has..

Hope it helps, good luck! =)

Edit:
I use a X700 which support some gaming but that isn't necessary for the scartRGB solution. Tutorials on the internet claim that "any" ATI-card will suffice. But as stated earlier, choose one with DX9 support.

Ive got a ATI Radeon 9200 card and ive connected it to my Loewe Creedo 32" Wide Tv set with a VGA to SCART cable and it works just fine.

Image below shows a Gold plated VGA to SCART cable that i made for a friend.

You may also buy these here in Sweden but i like to solder so mouch since i was a technichian for a shop for wich i reverse engeneered DVD players and Game consoles so they ran Code Free and Region Free

Ive also made mods on my own cable so i can get the signal out via S-video or Composite and ive also built in a Macrovision Defeater chip in it.
This resulted in a Box after the VGA cable that i connect various cables intoo but hey... its all in the back of my shelves so i don´t care :lol: