[mythtvnz] Video card for a diskless frontend?

[Stuart Whelan]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Criggie<criggie at criggie.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Are you sure those ports work on your TV?  I've seen some where the
> feature is not completely implemented.

Yep, I use the S-Video ports on the TV all the time to watch VLC
output from a vista laptop.

> Good.   AGP is dead and PCI isn't cost effective.  No need to choose a
> dual-port model - that feature is irrelevant (unless you want to put TV
> over two screens (with a block in the middle))

Nope just plain 'ol S-Video. I will do any maintenance on it either
over SSH, VNC or by dragging it down to the computer cave.

> Final thought is heat - there's been some discussion of substrate and
> thermal issues with NVidia implementations.  Either don't spend a lot, or
> make sure your case cooling is up to scratch.
>

Good advice, thank you for the reply.
Stuart.