DiVX TV-Out...Are there any good quality less expensive card alternatives?

[robbin]

I'm building a net pc of sorts that is going to be a gaming/browsing station. More than anything I'd like to watch DiVX on my 30" TV but I have no idea which tv-out card to get. Many of the ones I've seen have the hollywood/dvd included which won't help with output of AVI at all. Anyone have any suggestions? Whatever I get I'd like to keep it within or less than the $100.00 range. Thanks.

 

[Workin']

Get an ATi Rage Fury Pro 32 MB. It has excellent video out, passable video in, and decent game performance. It's about $100.

 

[robbin]

Any one else have any suggestions?

 

[Looney]

G400.. the thing with Divx movies is that not all divx will be able to be played out the TV-out. But with the G400 dual head feature, you can set the 2nd monitor/tv to 'Clone', and full screen the image.

 

[fastrabbit]

I thought Divx went defunked about 6-12 months ago.

 

[Oreo]

Just get a videocard that has TV-out. You don´t need a special card just for the TV-out.

 

[slpaulson]

fastrabbit, this is a different kind of divx that you can download on your computer. It has nothing to do with the evil past divx. At least this is what I assume he is talking about.

 

[Dazex]

Yeah, the new DiVX is analogous to video as what MP3 is to music. It does a really good job of compressing an entire movie to fit on a single CDROM and it has a very, very nice picture. It's difficult to impress me but when I ran a DiVX movie with my G400 as it outputted the signal to TV, I'd have to say that only a handful of scenes were I able to tell without having to look really closely that I'm not watching a DVD movie. And DVD movies are the only thing I would watch from home nowadays. Considering how badly VCD looks, this new DiVX format is really great.

FYI: the "new" DiVX is really a hack and only shares the same name with the DiVX that B&M stores like Circuit City was promoting. From what I understand, some group hack the Microsoft Active Streaming Technology to have it out in AVI instead of ASX and thus DiVX is borned.