Movie decoder card

[RedShirt]

Is there such a card that can output to the TV different movie formats? I don't want to use two videocards only to have one for just playing movies on my TV. I have a Realmagic Hollywood Plus and it just does Video CD's and MPEG files. Is there anything like this card that decodes DVD's and plays AVI files?

 

[AMB]

You could convert the AVI files to MPEG if you wanted to, what is your need of playing AVi files?

 

[RedShirt]

Yeah, I thought about doing that, but it takes forever (almost a day). I just want to display AVI movies on my TV, that's all

 

[Workin']

You need either a video card with a TV-out or else a scan converter (a little box you can connect between your computer and TV to convert the VGA signal to a TV signal).

A new video card will cost between US$50 and $500, an Averkey imicro scan converter costs $90.