Need Help Please - Need HDMI Card To Power 50" Plasma TV - THANKS

[DasFox]

What's a few good HDMI cards to power a 50" Plasma TV by EVGA?

The TV is a Panasonic Viera TH-50PC77U;
http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-...Technical-Specification/model.TH-50PC77U.T#ts

The TV is going to be mainly used for videos, a web cam and some gaming.

This isn't my TV, so let's not get into the discussion of Plasma TVs please, there's nothing I can do to change it, I just need to figure out which will be the best mid to high ranged card for HDMI to play very well on this 50" Plasma, that should also be a nice card for years to come for upgrading into other hardware down the road...

The first two to catch my eye, to start at the bottom were the Evga GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB and Evga GeForce GTX 570 HD...

One last thing, does HDMI now work great in PC cards?

THANKS



I decided to go with the 570HD with the FULL-HDMI;

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130621

 

[Jovec]

570 is serious overkill for that TV. It's only 720p. Outside of gaming, a $35 5450 would probably have met all your needs. With gaming, a ~$120 5770 would be fine, or even an $75 5670 512MB would handle most games at decent settings.

Remember you are only pushing 1366x768.

 

[taltamir]

720p is the shorthand name for a category of HDTV video modes having a resolution of 1280×720 (for a total of 0.92 megapixels or 921,600 pixels)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/720p
So he will be pushing less than 1366x768.

As for gaming, while not 1920x1200 resolution, select games can still tax the GPU even at 720p. We can't say it is a waste without asking what games he will be running.

 

[ZimZum]

Anything more than a 460(768) or even a 5770 is more than enough for that resolution.

 

[damage424]

Sorry to hijack or w/e but... what resolution does 1080p play on?

 

[taltamir]

Sorry to hijack or w/e but... what resolution does 1080p play on?

1080p is the resolution. it is a shorthand notation for "1920 x 1080 @ 60FPS progressive scan mode"
Sometimes it will be specifically referred to as 1080p60 (60FPS), or other framerates will be given, such as p24, p30, p75.
Also there is 1080i. i stands for interlaced; which is an ancient and crappy method to pseudo double the frame rate. Take a frame, delete every even line, take the next frame and delete every odd line, now put the two together to create one mishmash frame. The TV would then split that one image back into the two "half images". It was a workaround for days where TVs could handle decent FPS but the technology to transmit the signal wasn't there. Nowadays we can easily and cheaply transmit it and it has been made obsolete.

 

[damage424]

so i can connect my video card to a 40" lcd tv with an hdmi plug and play on hidef at that high resolution? sorry for the dumb questions

 

[Blitzvogel]

so i can connect my video card to a 40" lcd tv with an hdmi plug and play on hidef at that high resolution? sorry for the dumb questions

Yes. Of course you're limited by the TV's resolution. I have my main computer hooked up to an LG HDTV running at 1920 x 1080 resolution via an HDMI cable. Works great.

 

[betasub]

Responses above are correct. It is the TV's resolution and refresh that matter, not the size (40", 50", whatever).

 

[Iron Woode]

I have my 37" Toshiba LCD connected to my HTPC using HDMI and a HD4350 card. SD and HD (1080P) TV and movies play just fine. I don't do gaming with it though.

no need for a top of the line card even for casual gaming. An HD 56xx or higher will work or a GTX460 would be fine.