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<blockquote data-quote="Mister Bean" data-source="post: 363499" data-attributes="member: 78380">[USER=10858]tourettes[/USER]I agree with you that the quality of the Dutch broadcasters on Astra (Canal Digitaal) is horrible due to low bitrates (avg. 3Mbit/s), but . . . . If a tune in to a good quality MPEG2 transmission (ARD/ZDF) which has a bitrate of 7Mbit/s the picture quality is looks really better with DVBviewer. These 'artificial sharpening' or aliasing become worse in the small details of the picture (for example hair). Maybe this is subjective, but I'm an AV enthousiast and find these picture distorsions annoying. Again, it is only noticeable on good quality big screens (plasma's), thats maybe the reason why less people have complained about this. Unfortunately is this 'problem' still unsolved and the question still remains. What is different in pictureprocessing between Mediaportal and DVBviewer?At this moment my (8 year old) STB connected via SCART beats my HTPC in picture quality with MPEG2 transmissions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mister Bean, post: 363499, member: 78380"] [USER=10858]tourettes[/USER] I agree with you that the quality of the Dutch broadcasters on Astra (Canal Digitaal) is horrible due to low bitrates (avg. 3Mbit/s), but . . . . If a tune in to a good quality MPEG2 transmission (ARD/ZDF) which has a bitrate of 7Mbit/s the picture quality is looks really better with DVBviewer. These 'artificial sharpening' or aliasing become worse in the small details of the picture (for example hair). Maybe this is subjective, but I'm an AV enthousiast and find these picture distorsions annoying. Again, it is only noticeable on good quality big screens (plasma's), thats maybe the reason why less people have complained about this. Unfortunately is this 'problem' still unsolved and the question still remains. What is different in pictureprocessing between Mediaportal and DVBviewer? At this moment my (8 year old) STB connected via SCART beats my HTPC in picture quality with MPEG2 transmissions. [/QUOTE]

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