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<blockquote data-quote="Arn01805" data-source="post: 177222" data-attributes="member: 23550">[USER=27405]dekkers[/USER] I'm not sure about the algorithm the harware upscaling makes use, But the quality is really PERFECT. It's upscaling is far better as the upscaling from the internal tuner in this LG LCD Television. When watching the public television like Nederland 1, in the right upper corner is the channel logo. On my LCD TV with internal tuner, the logo appears a bit fuzzy, I mean the edges are not sharp in contrast with the background. When I switch to my mediaportal (with firedtv, but also hauppage analogue tv) and observe the same logo, it's perfect clear and sharp. If someone wouldn't know, i could tell them it's HDTV.Between the firedtv and hauppage 150 I see big quality difference. I think becouse the hauppage tuner is not high end AV-hardware, but both keep clear lines with upscaling. The difference only shows up in the colors and contrast.On my old system I got already good quality (only stuttering coz of 100% cpu load) with ffdshow thanks to Flipger´s hints, but with new hardware quality is really the same(or slightly better) without the ffdshow upscaling. I see no need to further improve the quality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arn01805, post: 177222, member: 23550"] [USER=27405]dekkers[/USER] I'm not sure about the algorithm the harware upscaling makes use, But the quality is really PERFECT. It's upscaling is far better as the upscaling from the internal tuner in this LG LCD Television. When watching the public television like Nederland 1, in the right upper corner is the channel logo. On my LCD TV with internal tuner, the logo appears a bit fuzzy, I mean the edges are not sharp in contrast with the background. When I switch to my mediaportal (with firedtv, but also hauppage analogue tv) and observe the same logo, it's perfect clear and sharp. If someone wouldn't know, i could tell them it's HDTV. Between the firedtv and hauppage 150 I see big quality difference. I think becouse the hauppage tuner is not high end AV-hardware, but both keep clear lines with upscaling. The difference only shows up in the colors and contrast. On my old system I got already good quality (only stuttering coz of 100% cpu load) with ffdshow thanks to Flipger´s hints, but with new hardware quality is really the same(or slightly better) without the ffdshow upscaling. I see no need to further improve the quality. [/QUOTE]

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