AIW Radeon 9800 Pro 128 Good For HTPC ?

Yes.


It's still got relatively large on-board memory bandwidth, thanks to it's 256-bit bus.


I tried the newly release ATI Catalyst 5.13 driver on it's predecessor, a Radeon 9700 last night and enabling the new Auto (adaptive deinterlacing) feature gives a big improvement for video sourced material using TheaterTek (vmr9 full renderless).


regards,

Rob.

Rob,


How do you enable "the new Auto (adaptive deinterlacing) feature"?


Can Catalyst 5.13 create a standard (set top box like) 1080i VGA output?


I have a 9800 PRO and I'm using TheaterTek.



Thank you.

I found the option in the new ati control panel, something like video, deinterlacing. It was defaulted to Weave, but could be changed to Adaptive.


I noticed it didn't stick first re-boot, perhaps where the shutdown wasn't clean?


I then checked for the improvement using the HQV jaggies test.


You might also like to check out the "Perfection achieved " thread on the TheaterTek forum, as I too have now had great results with a Radeon, ReClock, TheaterTek and 1080i source material, which can look really nice and stable at 720p/72 and 720p/60


regards,

Rob.