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<blockquote data-quote="elconejito" data-source="post: 109607" data-attributes="member: 12592">Just to throw my hat into the ring on this. I've been fiddling with color settings for about a week now. I have a Hauppauge 150MCE and am using onboard video (ATI x200) to a 32&quot; CRT using the default MPV decoder. I've managed to get the color &quot;close&quot; to what I get from straight cable.I've adjusted settings in the Hauppauge tweaker which usually works right away, but sometimes requires a reboot before I notice a difference. I have adjusted the colors in the ATI Catalyst drivers for TV, and general color settings. I have adjusted the colors in the MPV decoder.The main issue I have is that very dark and very light colors are crushed like in the image below. I over-exaggerate a little, but hopefully you see what I mean. And further the black isn't really black, more like a dark gray and the white isnt really white, more like an ivory or cream color. Again, its not *that* bad and I would probably not have noticed if I wasn't doing a direct comparison by flipping back and forth between inputs. See pic below, top half is how it it supposed to look, bottom is how it looks onscreen.<img src="http://www.harvsworld.com/images/grayscale.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I guess I'm mainly wondering what settings people are generally using for Hauppauge, MPV decoder, and ATI catalyst (if applicable). Also, I wonder if I can use the PureVideo decoder even tho I have an ATI video out?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elconejito, post: 109607, member: 12592"] Just to throw my hat into the ring on this. I've been fiddling with color settings for about a week now. I have a Hauppauge 150MCE and am using onboard video (ATI x200) to a 32" CRT using the default MPV decoder. I've managed to get the color "close" to what I get from straight cable. I've adjusted settings in the Hauppauge tweaker which usually works right away, but sometimes requires a reboot before I notice a difference. I have adjusted the colors in the ATI Catalyst drivers for TV, and general color settings. I have adjusted the colors in the MPV decoder. The main issue I have is that very dark and very light colors are crushed like in the image below. I over-exaggerate a little, but hopefully you see what I mean. And further the black isn't really black, more like a dark gray and the white isnt really white, more like an ivory or cream color. Again, its not *that* bad and I would probably not have noticed if I wasn't doing a direct comparison by flipping back and forth between inputs. See pic below, top half is how it it supposed to look, bottom is how it looks onscreen. [IMG]http://www.harvsworld.com/images/grayscale.jpg[/IMG] I guess I'm mainly wondering what settings people are generally using for Hauppauge, MPV decoder, and ATI catalyst (if applicable). Also, I wonder if I can use the PureVideo decoder even tho I have an ATI video out? [/QUOTE]

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