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<blockquote data-quote="logifuse" data-source="post: 805976" data-attributes="member: 110442">My limited experience with Intel graphics is that it does the job, but has limited tweaking options. Nvidia doesn't give you a great number of options (&amp; they're pretty useless really), but certain decoders (LAV CUVID) exploit the best options of an Nvidia card. AMD/ATI give you all sorts of things to tweak, but from what I've seen it can be a never ending quest to get it just right.There may be a decoder out there that makes your particular setup come alive, it's just a matter of finding it. The problem I've found with some of them (e.g. the old WinDVD) is that they had a sharp picture but didn't suit 50Hz (they seemed to halve the framerate), so no good for Aussie TV.Best combo I've seen on an HTPC for Australian TV is MediaPortal using LAV CUVID with an Nvidia GT430 card. I recently had a shoot-out with a friend who works in high end AV custom install &amp; we tried that combo, along with WMC, an AMD HD6570 card, various decoders (MS, Cyberlink, MPC-MPEG2), &amp; all combos of those, all on a new Sharp 46 inch LED LCD. It even beat the TVs DTV tuner. We used 2 channel 9 SD NRL matches (one night one day) as our source (as the lines on the field can show up poor deinterlacing) &amp; his thought was that if someone saw the picture from the MP/LAV CUVID/GT430 combo on a screen in their shop, they would have assumed it was HD. While I wouldn't go that far, it is very impressive.Do some searching for MPEG2 decoders &amp; try some out.If you have another PC on your network, you could move the tuner card to that &amp; configure it as an MP TV Server or ForTheRecord Argus TV server &amp; use the TV PC as a front end (I'd recommend FTR/Argus for that job, but it's more things to learn).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="logifuse, post: 805976, member: 110442"] My limited experience with Intel graphics is that it does the job, but has limited tweaking options. Nvidia doesn't give you a great number of options (& they're pretty useless really), but certain decoders (LAV CUVID) exploit the best options of an Nvidia card. AMD/ATI give you all sorts of things to tweak, but from what I've seen it can be a never ending quest to get it just right. There may be a decoder out there that makes your particular setup come alive, it's just a matter of finding it. The problem I've found with some of them (e.g. the old WinDVD) is that they had a sharp picture but didn't suit 50Hz (they seemed to halve the framerate), so no good for Aussie TV. Best combo I've seen on an HTPC for Australian TV is MediaPortal using LAV CUVID with an Nvidia GT430 card. I recently had a shoot-out with a friend who works in high end AV custom install & we tried that combo, along with WMC, an AMD HD6570 card, various decoders (MS, Cyberlink, MPC-MPEG2), & all combos of those, all on a new Sharp 46 inch LED LCD. It even beat the TVs DTV tuner. We used 2 channel 9 SD NRL matches (one night one day) as our source (as the lines on the field can show up poor deinterlacing) & his thought was that if someone saw the picture from the MP/LAV CUVID/GT430 combo on a screen in their shop, they would have assumed it was HD. While I wouldn't go that far, it is very impressive. Do some searching for MPEG2 decoders & try some out. If you have another PC on your network, you could move the tuner card to that & configure it as an MP TV Server or ForTheRecord Argus TV server & use the TV PC as a front end (I'd recommend FTR/Argus for that job, but it's more things to learn). [/QUOTE]

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