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<blockquote data-quote="clobber" data-source="post: 307270" data-attributes="member: 64615">Hi,So, I'm running my SD satellite service STB into my MP HTPC using composite cable connected to a PVR-150 PCI card. A couple of observations I don't understand:1) When viewing the video from My TV and not using any post processing, I would say the video looks slightly worse than just running the signal into my HDTV. Its a bit darker and fuzzier (not much). I don't have that problem with any of the other content I play (xvids look great).2) Applying the ffdshow upscaling filters (resize, blur &amp; NR, sharpen), pretty much make the picture look even worse.3) Upscaling even makes xvids look worse. I'm actually impressed how good 350MB Xvids look on the screen in the video's native resolution (some where around 600 x 350. However, when I upscale them to 1080p there is a degradation. I've read other posts where people using xsharpen thing it works great. So, am I missing something?I'm not expecting a miracle here, but I'm surprised both xvids and SD TV look worse when I try to postprocess. Thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clobber, post: 307270, member: 64615"] Hi, So, I'm running my SD satellite service STB into my MP HTPC using composite cable connected to a PVR-150 PCI card. A couple of observations I don't understand: 1) When viewing the video from My TV and not using any post processing, I would say the video looks slightly worse than just running the signal into my HDTV. Its a bit darker and fuzzier (not much). I don't have that problem with any of the other content I play (xvids look great). 2) Applying the ffdshow upscaling filters (resize, blur & NR, sharpen), pretty much make the picture look even worse. 3) Upscaling even makes xvids look worse. I'm actually impressed how good 350MB Xvids look on the screen in the video's native resolution (some where around 600 x 350. However, when I upscale them to 1080p there is a degradation. I've read other posts where people using xsharpen thing it works great. So, am I missing something? I'm not expecting a miracle here, but I'm surprised both xvids and SD TV look worse when I try to postprocess. Thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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