[Rich A]

Originally Posted by emg178

Rich, thanks for your detailed response. How about a link to that website? I do agree that the drivers / codecs released by the manufacturer *should* work better than codecs / drivers from third party folks. However, ATI was referring people to your site for their tech support; that says something about their ability to use their own product. Perhaps their software is fine now, but I've been using all in wonders for 4 years now. I don't pretend to have the kind of experience that you have. However, over that time, both cards that I have used were released w/ very buggy software. Even if it worked, I could only describe it as crap relative to snapstream products. Now, my mode of operation is to stick w/ snapstream, and get hardware / decoders that work the best w/ their products.
Although, I would much prefer getting an nvidia card, it looks like I may be stuck w/ ati for now, b/c I have only component inputs on the hdtv.

Sorry I've been away for a while and haven't checked in for day or so. I stopped work on the web page about the same time I started working on the home theater. Most of what's there is very dated but there are tibits of things for guys with pre-radeon cards and other DVD/SVCD stuff in general. The URL is www.pcphotovideo.com There is a link on the main page to the old ATI page as well.

I'm off to download the Nidia decoder right now. I've been meaning to do that. As I mentioned, I also have an AIW Radeon but it's not set up for annything other than video editing and conversion. But I will test it with that.

As for some other recent posts .. I doubt it will work well with anything needed HDTV resolution. My own HTPC is set at 800x600 as that is the native res of my projector. The display on the 84 inch screen is however outstanding. I'm going to be adding the AIT HD-Wonder for off the air HD reception. Being a ham, I naturally choose to build my house near the top of the biggest hill I could find. I can receive all the major networks over the air with excellent signals (CBS, NBC and ABC) who are broadcasting some HDTV content. Although my PJ is 800x600 resident, it will display up to 1080i content really nice.