Can someone tell me if the USA VGA cards are the same as the EU ones?
Because i looked in my region, but i seems in the US is it more easier find these older graphic cards..
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For the most part. But if cards have composite or S-Video out the BIOS differs a little and US cards output NTSC whereas European cards output PAL.
should it be possible to flash it with a PAL bios?
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Most of the AGP/PCI video cards I've seen with TV-out come with a jumper to select between NTSC or PAL video at boot time. Once the OS is loaded the TV standard can be freely selected through the configuration utility.
Interesting. I didn't have a similar experience. No jumpers. But now that I capture DVI and VGA directly, I really don't need S-Video out that much anymore 😀
wrote:Most of the AGP/PCI video cards I've seen with TV-out come with a jumper to select between NTSC or PAL video at boot time. Once the OS is loaded the TV standard can be freely selected through the configuration utility.
+1. On cards that I've owned without jumpers (usually the "last era" of cards with TV out, like GeForce 7) you can still select options from within the card's drivers/configuration utility depending on what it needs to support (and I know on nVidia cards you generally have the "Create custom resolution" options as well). As far as VGA/DVI/HDMI interfaces that should be identical the world over, same goes for AGP, PCI, PCIe, etc. Basically if you aren't using TV out I wouldn't even worry about it.
I will add on YPbPr on computers - the one time I've tried to use it (from my 7950GX2) it did not work very well. In general I've not had issues with s-video or CVBS, but I'd probably "pass" on YPbPr in favor of VGA where available. 😊
Depends on the card. Most EU cards have composite instead of S-Video. I was lucky enough to have a GeForce2 GTS with S-Video AND Composite.
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wrote:Most of the AGP/PCI video cards I've seen with TV-out come with a jumper to select between NTSC or PAL video at boot time. Once the OS is loaded the TV standard can be freely selected through the configuration utility.
So NTSC isnt forced?
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Not at all, the TV-out chip is software programmable and the jumper (if present) only affects boot time. The driver either looks up your OS' region settings to determine the correct analog TV standard to use or lets you choose from a (usually long) list of NTSC and PAL variants. The TV encoders in these cards even generate the N and M variants of PAL which are used in a grand total of three and one countries respectively.
