[MacDV] Recommendations for a video card too

[Gregg Gorrie]

on 5/15/05 12:12 AM, SLarsonIH at aol.com at SLarsonIH at aol.com wrote:

> Besides looking for the Analog to Digital converter, I am looking to upgrade
> the video card as well if needed. My MDD has a NVidia GeForce 4MX w/32MB of
> ram in it. Would a different or second video card be advantageous for doing
> video. If so, what is a good card to install? My brother raves about his ATI
> All 
> in Wonder card, but I don't think they made it for Macs.

The ATI VR128 video card was the Mac version of the All In Wonder card. I
still use one in my old upgraded clone (Umax S900 with G4/400 processor).
It's only 16MB, so quite limited by today's standards, but it does have the
TV tuner in it which I find handy sometimes. Also, as far as I know, the
software is only supported in OS9.

If you have an older Mac kicking around it might be worth hunting one down
on e-Bay just for this purpose.

Two separate video cards was the way to go a couple of years ago, but now a
number of video cards come with multiple outputs (and of course they only
use one PCI slot).
-- 
Gregg