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pr0f3t
04-24-2008, 08:23 AM
Hello,

I need to be able to connect 4 TVs (AV not HDTV) to a pc - I can get a motherboard with 2 AGP slots (2 PCIe slots is very rare where I am).

So I'm wondering if anyone has come across a card with 2 TV out ports (not S-video but AV)? And has anyone had experience using 2 such cards on the same pc? I should have at least 4 monitors visible to my OS (Windows XP, Vista, etc), which the software can access.

I've looked at PC2TV solutions, but the good ones (Eclipse TV-One, etc) are rather expensive - I'd need maybe 4 of them - one per monitor. So onboard TV-out is my preference.

One last requirement is for wide screen support (1280x800, etc)

Any thoughts?

Thanks - pr0f.

Goliath182
04-25-2008, 12:32 AM
Id say anything you can find with that, buy it. Dual TV outputs on a card is not very common if not impossible to find.

Miker
04-25-2008, 01:38 AM
As the master of AGP, I can say that there is no single CPU motherboard with dual AGP slots. AGP is not like PCI/-e. 2 slots can't co-exist.

Sadasius
04-25-2008, 02:09 AM
Well what you can do is use the s-video to an adapter that will give you 4 ports to your tv's. It's kind of simple and I am sure your local electronic salesperson would be more then happy to help you out at your local electronics store.

Miker
04-25-2008, 02:56 AM
Well what you can do is use the s-video to an adapter that will give you 4 ports to your tv's. It's kind of simple and I am sure your local electronic salesperson would be more then happy to help you out at your local electronics store.

But, no set up will even have 4 outputs because he can only have one card.

Sadasius
04-25-2008, 03:36 AM
I realize that. But what I am wondering is if he wants all the TV's to have the same image as the PC monitor or does he want to control them individually? If he does not mind them all being the same on clone mode the yeah all he needs is one card to do that and then add an adapter. I have a adapter that can go on a S-video and turn it to regular cable. Plug that into a multi splitter and voila!