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<blockquote data-quote="vbap" data-source="post: 19495" data-attributes="member: 11549">Another update....Tried using FusionHDTV application, and found I could set it in config to use VMR rendering (by default it uses overlay). I must admit, I never tried overlay with MP, but there is a noticable quality difference, with Overlay looking much better than VMR. I only observed this using the Fusion app, I didn't have time to try overlay in MP. I am also a little envious of the stability and smoothness of the Fusion app in terms of displaying all of the local SD &amp; HD channels. Channel changing is smooth and relatively quick, which I don't (yet!) experience in MP. Once MP provides the same quality for LiveTV, I will definitely get a 2nd tuner and stop using the Dell TV analog inputs to watch liveTV.As for the tearing, it wasn't noticable in the Fusion app in either Overlay or VMR modes, but I don't know enough about the FusionApp to be sure that I set it up correctly for VMR.So, I went back to MP and played with the config setting for &quot;Fullscreen exclusive DirectX mode&quot;.If I de-select this option, I then get tearing in ALL forms of video plaback - LiveTV, TimeshiftedTV, RecordedTV, Video files (have not tested DVDs yet). If I re-select the option, I only get tearing in LiveTV - all other forms are fine.I tried to determine whether the tearing was evident only in Fullscreen TV, but it was hard to tell when the TV was being displayed on the My TV Home page whether there was tearing (the ! test indicates yes, but the white vertical bar also tears if I am just on the MP Home screen with no videos playing at all - strange...)The tearing is the same severity in all cases - the video is still watchable, but there will be a noticable diagonal &quot;tear&quot; in the picture, that kind of &quot;flashes&quot; every now and then, and looks to be confined to the top third of the picture (although the white vertical bar indicates tearing such that the bar looks like it's split into 5 equal lengths...).Is there any chance that FS Exclusive DX9 mode has a problem with LiveTV???</blockquote>

[QUOTE="vbap, post: 19495, member: 11549"] Another update.... Tried using FusionHDTV application, and found I could set it in config to use VMR rendering (by default it uses overlay). I must admit, I never tried overlay with MP, but there is a noticable quality difference, with Overlay looking much better than VMR. I only observed this using the Fusion app, I didn't have time to try overlay in MP. I am also a little envious of the stability and smoothness of the Fusion app in terms of displaying all of the local SD & HD channels. Channel changing is smooth and relatively quick, which I don't (yet!) experience in MP. Once MP provides the same quality for LiveTV, I will definitely get a 2nd tuner and stop using the Dell TV analog inputs to watch liveTV. As for the tearing, it wasn't noticable in the Fusion app in either Overlay or VMR modes, but I don't know enough about the FusionApp to be sure that I set it up correctly for VMR. So, I went back to MP and played with the config setting for "Fullscreen exclusive DirectX mode". If I de-select this option, I then get tearing in ALL forms of video plaback - LiveTV, TimeshiftedTV, RecordedTV, Video files (have not tested DVDs yet). If I re-select the option, I only get tearing in LiveTV - all other forms are fine. I tried to determine whether the tearing was evident only in Fullscreen TV, but it was hard to tell when the TV was being displayed on the My TV Home page whether there was tearing (the ! test indicates yes, but the white vertical bar also tears if I am just on the MP Home screen with no videos playing at all - strange...) The tearing is the same severity in all cases - the video is still watchable, but there will be a noticable diagonal "tear" in the picture, that kind of "flashes" every now and then, and looks to be confined to the top third of the picture (although the white vertical bar indicates tearing such that the bar looks like it's split into 5 equal lengths...). Is there any chance that FS Exclusive DX9 mode has a problem with LiveTV??? [/QUOTE]

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