Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:48:29 -0500 (EST) From: Jon Smith <jonsmith@physics.purdue.edu> To: Chris Csanady <cc@137.org> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sigma Designs pleads impossible :( Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911091047560.42767-100000@galileo.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <382828F3.FB83AD2F@ameslab.gov>
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Frankly, I bought it to play it on my TV and have only occasionally played them on the monitor (and it looked a LOT better than the TV). j. On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Chris Csanady wrote: > Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > > > > > With regard to using the Hollywood Plus under NON-Windows environments, I > > > finally got Sigma Designs to say the following: > > > > > > Hi, > > > Our engineers were working on it, after many unsuccessful trials they found > > > out that it is not possible to use the EM8300 chip for that purpose. > > > Sorry but that is not possible. > > > Thank you, > > > mc > > > > > > I would call that pretty well as defective as a WIN-modem. > > > > What is em8300 chip and are they any pointers to a datasheet? > > In my opinion, their cards suck. I actually tried one out, but you can't run > it at even a moderate resolution without serious video degredation. Even > with good cables, I think the pass through solution is not acceptable. > > Unless you like to run at 800x600 or less, you will probably want to purchase > a graphics card with an integrated dvd decoder instead. I think it would be > much more worthwhile to support these.. > > Chris > -- "Tell me, hypothetically--" "I feel a nightmare coming on" -- The American President This formula is so fundamental . . . appearing in such diverse branches of physics as . . . the study of soap bubbles. -- Introduction to Electrodynamics, Third Edition, David J. Griffiths Jonathan Smith <jonsmith@physics.purdue.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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