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<blockquote data-quote="o0X0o" data-source="post: 724401" data-attributes="member: 55151">When you say 1080i HDTV, do you mean live digital TV? Because I would think that your tuner card, drivers and codec choice would be important considerations as much as anything?For media playback I found that each release of the Intel drivers was improving the situation, but the picture quality was still crap on all high-def material. Kind of like it was struggling with contrast or colour depth, + some blockiness. The posts by drealit on page 1 give you the idea of symptoms and cause. Even as of December the situation had improved (see post by pgroe on page 2), but still lagged behind ATI and nVidia.I gave up, purchased an ATI HD5450 and never looked back. The Core i3/5 series have plenty of power for a HTPC with good thermal properties and are pretty cost-effective. But my advice is that if you value your time and care about picture quality, spend $40 on a discrete video card like an ATI 5450 or G210...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="o0X0o, post: 724401, member: 55151"] When you say 1080i HDTV, do you mean live digital TV? Because I would think that your tuner card, drivers and codec choice would be important considerations as much as anything? For media playback I found that each release of the Intel drivers was improving the situation, but the picture quality was still crap on all high-def material. Kind of like it was struggling with contrast or colour depth, + some blockiness. The posts by drealit on page 1 give you the idea of symptoms and cause. Even as of December the situation had improved (see post by pgroe on page 2), but still lagged behind ATI and nVidia. I gave up, purchased an ATI HD5450 and never looked back. The Core i3/5 series have plenty of power for a HTPC with good thermal properties and are pretty cost-effective. But my advice is that if you value your time and care about picture quality, spend $40 on a discrete video card like an ATI 5450 or G210... [/QUOTE]

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