Best OS for MP: MCE2005 vs WinXP Pro? (1 Viewer)

[mPod]

If you're gonna use MCE, report back if that really solves your blackness issue.

I'm curious for that, cause I still doubt it's affecting it.
Especially this kind of "I heard that a friend of a friend of a friend of mine solved it by using MCE" makes me wonder a bit.

 

[ziphnor]

Well i installed MCE on my parents HTPC. They havent bought their new TV yet, so it was connected via S-Video to the old TV.

I avoided the black crush im witnessing on my HDTV, but im pretty sure this is because S-Video is a TV-out connection, so the video card KNOWS that a TV has been connected. So no conclusion on the MCE vs XP issue. ( but i agree that it would be kind of odd if just using MCE solved it).

At home i dragged my girlfriends PC into the living room and tried out DVI->HDMI and Component out from her 7900GT.

I still got the same crush, but not over Component out.

As NLS suggested i tried raising the gamma which did help, but im still not sure whether or not this is the 'correct' way to correct it. I unfortunately left my calibration DVD at my parents house so i was using a THX test JPEG image(which also suffered black crush before). When i get the DVD back again, i will see whether the gamma adjustment messes something else up. Damn its going to be mess calibrating with so many settings to play with ....