Re: MCE2005 + 9800Pro + 42" Plasma = ???

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I have a quick question, have you gotten the tuner to work with MCE. I
downloaded the latest drivers from ati and my tuner is not working with MCE.
If you have gotten it to work, what drivers did you use? and how did you get
it to work?

Thanks

"Curious" wrote:

> If your Plasma will accept DVI then you should use it and be sure to send
> one of the resolutions over DVI that the TV's user manual says it will
> accept. Most TVs will accept the standard HDTV resolutions of 720p and 1080i
> and will do an excellent job of rescaling the input to their native
> resolutions if different such as 1366x768 or even eliminating enough of the
> detail to downscale the input to 852x480 if your plasma is an EDTV and not a
> true HDTV (one with a native resolution of at least 1280x720).
>
> "No Spam" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:11f7hi680p22i01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Can an ATI 9800Pro/MCE2005 output HDTV directly to a 42" Plasma screen?
> > Most of the plasma screens have seem to have somewhat odd resolutions.
> > It would be great if someone could explain it all to me. Should I use VGA
> > or DVI? Any additional software or hardware required to make this work
> > properly?
> >
> > I plan on buying a plasma screen that does not have the ATSC tuner, and
> > using an HDTV Wonder (or something similar) as the tuner.
> >
> > One last question...do any of these plasma sets act like a computer
> > monitor and turn off when the computer blanks the screen?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>
>
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