Supported Television/HDTV Formats for Analog and
Digital Outputs
The ForceWare Release 75 graphics driver supports output to SDTV, EDTV, and
HDTV formats over both analog and digital outputs:
• Analog Component output (Y Pr Pb) on HDTV‐capable GPUs with a compatible
connector*.
• Digital output (DVI) on HDTV‐capable GPUs with a compatible connector.
* Supported on NVIDIA GPU‐based graphics cards with Conexant 875 or Philips
7108 TV encoders and compatible connectors, or on the NVIDIA GPU internal
HDTV encoder for the newer GPUs.
Figure 6.1
DVI (digital)
connection
NVIDIA graphics cards support the following television and HDTV formats,
depending on the GPU or graphics card encoder and EDID of the TV/HDTV display:
• NTSC (US and Japanese)
• PAL (including all variations)
• SDTV 480i (525i); 576i (625i)
• EDTV 480p (525p); 576p (625p)
• HDTV 1080i, 720p, and 1080p
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Back View of an HDTV with DVI and Analog Connectors
Chapter 6
Configuring HDTV
Component (analog)
connection
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