What do I look for in a Video card with DVR capabilities?

> You pretty much have basics of what is required in a Windows Vista
> supported video card. 256 MBs should be more than enough to give you the
> full experiences that Vista has to offer. As for DVR capabilities, this is
> really in the hands of the manufacturers, so you need to stay in touch
> with nVidia and ATI, they are the ones who will be responsible for making
> DVR support under Vista possible.
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> "michael e dziatkowicz" <mnmma@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>> What do I want to look for in a video card with DVR capabilities? I know
>> it has to have 256mb ram and directx 9 support supposedly but what else
>> do I need to look for when I do go out and buy one? Also will someone
>> recommend me a video card with tv/dvr capabilities that will work with
>> vista and do all the features? I saw the first VISTA ready video card on
>> circuit city.com and it's $529.
>> http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/EVGA-...oductDetail.do
>> thank you for your help and patience. Now that I belong to MSDN I am
>> really excited to get to try VISTA!!!!
>>

>

> You pretty much have basics of what is required in a Windows Vista
> supported video card. 256 MBs should be more than enough to give you the
> full experiences that Vista has to offer. As for DVR capabilities, this is
> really in the hands of the manufacturers, so you need to stay in touch
> with nVidia and ATI, they are the ones who will be responsible for making
> DVR support under Vista possible.
> --
> --
> Andre
> Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>
> "michael e dziatkowicz" <mnmma@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:Ne-dnWOUZIdiDcTZnZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@comcast.com...

>> What do I want to look for in a video card with DVR capabilities? I know
>> it has to have 256mb ram and directx 9 support supposedly but what else
>> do I need to look for when I do go out and buy one? Also will someone
>> recommend me a video card with tv/dvr capabilities that will work with
>> vista and do all the features? I saw the first VISTA ready video card on
>> circuit city.com and it's $529.
>> http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/EVGA-...oductDetail.do
>> thank you for your help and patience. Now that I belong to MSDN I am
>> really excited to get to try VISTA!!!!
>>

>
> Would it be safer to wait til vista was closer to release to get a video
> card with dvr capabilities? I'm looking on the sites and I can't seem to
> find any video cards with dvr capabilities at all let alone ones that will
> run vista. The ones I do find only have 128mb ram. I want at least
> 256,right?
>

>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eNyxrV0bGHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> You pretty much have basics of what is required in a Windows Vista
>> supported video card. 256 MBs should be more than enough to give you the
>> full experiences that Vista has to offer. As for DVR capabilities, this
>> is really in the hands of the manufacturers, so you need to stay in touch
>> with nVidia and ATI, they are the ones who will be responsible for making
>> DVR support under Vista possible.
>> --
>> --
>> Andre
>> Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com
>> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
>> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
>> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>>
>> "michael e dziatkowicz" <mnmma@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:Ne-dnWOUZIdiDcTZnZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@comcast.com...

>>> What do I want to look for in a video card with DVR capabilities? I know
>>> it has to have 256mb ram and directx 9 support supposedly but what else
>>> do I need to look for when I do go out and buy one? Also will someone
>>> recommend me a video card with tv/dvr capabilities that will work with
>>> vista and do all the features? I saw the first VISTA ready video card on
>>> circuit city.com and it's $529.
>>> http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/EVGA-...oductDetail.do
>>> thank you for your help and patience. Now that I belong to MSDN I am
>>> really excited to get to try VISTA!!!!
>>>

> Would it be safer to wait til vista was closer to release to get a video
> card with dvr capabilities? I'm looking on the sites and I can't seem to
> find any video cards with dvr capabilities at all let alone ones that will
> run vista. The ones I do find only have 128mb ram. I want at least
> 256,right?
>

> "michael e dziatkowicz" <mnmma@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:vYmdnbm8eLl8YsTZnZ2dnUVZ_v6dnZ2d@comcast.com. ..

>>
>> Would it be safer to wait til vista was closer to release to get a video
>> card with dvr capabilities? I'm looking on the sites and I can't seem to
>> find any video cards with dvr capabilities at all let alone ones that
>> will run vista. The ones I do find only have 128mb ram. I want at least
>> 256,right?
>>

>
>
> You don't strictly need 256MB to get the Glass effects, but the more
> memory the better. I have had glass working just fine on an ATi 9700 Pro
> with 128MB ram, running dual monitors at 1600x1200.
>
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> What do I want to look for in a video card with DVR capabilities? I know it
> has to have 256mb ram and directx 9 support supposedly but what else do I
> need to look for when I do go out and buy one? Also will someone recommend
> me a video card with tv/dvr capabilities that will work with vista and do
> all the features? I saw the first VISTA ready video card on circuit city.com
> and it's $529.

> "michael e dziatkowicz" wrote:

>> Would it be safer to wait til vista was closer to release to get a video
>> card with dvr capabilities? I'm looking on the sites and I can't seem to
>> find any video cards with dvr capabilities at all let alone ones that
>> will run vista. The ones I do find only have 128mb ram. I want at least
>> 256,right?
>>

>
> You don't strictly need 256MB to get the Glass effects, but the more
> memory the better. I have had glass working just fine on an ATi 9700 Pro
> with 128MB ram, running dual monitors at 1600x1200.