jonepner wrote: System Usage

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November 11, 2013 at 10:57 pm #8210
oliverredfox
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    [quote=jonepner]
    System Usage from Most to Least Important: Live and Recorded TV
    And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Want to stop paying for cable

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    If your goal is to ditch cable, are you looking to record HDTV ATSC over-the-air?  NTSC standard TV over-the-air?

    [quote=jonepner]

    very light gaming.
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    The component video will make it tricky.  Since it’ll take an older card to do that output natively and it’ll have a hard time with games.  The best option would likely be to use a video converter and a newer card.  Something like this- http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=101&cp_id=10114&cs_id=1011407&p_id=8668&seq=1&format=2

     

    Someone might have more recent knowledge of this.  I know a few years ago I had a TV with both component and VGA inputs.  With component, DRM’d content was forced to run at 480p but VGA skirted around that and worked at up 1080p on my set (the 50′ VGA cable I had to buy annoyed me).  I don’t know if VGA still skirts around the DRM in most stuff like that, but if it does, the converter should trick Windows into thinking it’s outputing on VGA and let it run at full resolution.