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    DVD card

    my Ti4200 does not play DVD's very clearly, can i use a dvd card aswell and if so how does it connect? (ie: do i connect my monitor to the dvd card or does the dvd card link to the Ti)

    any advice would be appreciated!

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    What do you mean it doesn't play them very clearly? What software are you using?

    You won't notice a lot of difference between that and a decoder card unless you connect it to your TV.
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    when i had my 8500le the picture quality was far clearer. now it looks grainy,

    i don't know if that makes any sense

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    Which software? PowerDVD?
    Radeons are usually better image quality than nVidia cards.

    I'm not entirely sure how a decoder card interfaces... Does it pass through the monitor with the graphics card or something..?
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    i'm using windvd.

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    DVD cards do not have their own monitor output usually.

    The old one I had was linked to the graphics card via a small cable. The card itself only had phono and S-video out on it and I never used it so I can't really say what the quality was like.

    I don't think the cards were ever designed to output a top-notch video feed, they were primarily designed to reduce the processing power you needed to watch a DVD on a PC. They seem to be largely redundent today with the increase in CPU speeds.

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    is hardware acceleration enabled or disabled (in winDVD)?

    You can get a separate DVD decoder card (have got one lying around from back when i had a K6 300) - most popular one back then was the RealMagic Hollywood Plus http://www.realmagic.com/support/dow...us_win2000.htm

    it comes with a small cable to pass your vga output through the decoder card (monitor connects to decoder card) - it also supports AC3 DD thru S/P DIF


    your graphics card is capable of a smooth good looking picture tho...
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    Are we talking about TV or monitor?
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    hardware acceleration is now on and has made a bit of difference, thanks

    yes it is on a monitor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mrdata2003
    when i had my 8500le the picture quality was far clearer. now it looks grainy,

    i don't know if that makes any sense
    The answer is in that comment - ATI has way better DVD Quality than Nvidia's TI 4xxx cards - I think the FX series are supposed to be a vast improvement, however, ATI have always been the best for software decoding.

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    are you using the same movie as before - or is the quality of the actual disc different?

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