what does HDTV ready mean???

[jamessb9]

I just bought an eVGA 7600GT featured at our very own Anandtech:

http://labs.anandtech.com/alllinks.php?pfilter=4680

when i bought it from the egg, it said HDTV, but AT says HDTV ready, what's the difference?

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814130017

I just got hosed didn't I?

oh well, live and learn...

 

[jonesthewine]

Relative to televisions, HDTV ready means that it can display HDTV resolutions but lacks an internal HDTV tuner...it needs something external to feed it the hidef signal.

Relative to a video card/GPU, my guess is that the card can output HDTV resolutions but lacks any sort of TV tuner.

You didn't get hosed...you got a working 7600GT, right.

For what purpose did you purchase the card? General use, Video out to TV, gaming ?

 

[Aikouka]

I'd assume that it's talking about the component output capability.

 

[Tates]

Originally posted by: jamessb9
I just bought an eVGA 7600GT featured at our very own Anandtech:

http://labs.anandtech.com/alllinks.php?pfilter=4680

when i bought it from the egg, it said HDTV, but AT says HDTV ready, what's the difference?

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814130017

I just got hosed didn't I?

oh well, live and learn...

Settle down, you didn't get hosed.

The card is equipped with an integrated nVidia HDTV encoder which provides TV-out functionality up to 1080i resolution.