Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Tech Geek" data-source="post: 42195" data-attributes="member: 18181">If you are going to buy an HDTV and want HDTV recording/playback support stick to newer generations of video cards and avoid the bottom end cards to be sure you have enough bandwidth to work.The 5200/5500 (FX series) or 9550 work fine for standard TV.&nbsp; The 5200/5500 have fewer video playback features and require higher CPU use.&nbsp; The 9550 has more features than the 5200/5500.&nbsp; It actually has the same features as higher end cards prior to the ATi X1000 series &amp; NVidia PureVideo cards.&nbsp; I suggest a minimum of an X1600 or 6600 based card for HDTV.&nbsp; An X1300PRO *may* also work.&nbsp; These cards will have more video playback features than lower end cards and are fast enough you won't drop frames or have skipping video with MediaPortal.My own HDTV experience has been less than perfect.&nbsp; I have a Sapphire (ATi) X1300 and it works fine for most HDTV PVR software out of the box but I had problems with MediaPortal.&nbsp; The combination of VMR9 plus Microsoft's video buffering/recording seemed to cause skipping.&nbsp; I had to return the HDTV tuner so I couldn't be sure if it was just a codec problem.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tech Geek, post: 42195, member: 18181"] If you are going to buy an HDTV and want HDTV recording/playback support stick to newer generations of video cards and avoid the bottom end cards to be sure you have enough bandwidth to work. The 5200/5500 (FX series) or 9550 work fine for standard TV. The 5200/5500 have fewer video playback features and require higher CPU use. The 9550 has more features than the 5200/5500. It actually has the same features as higher end cards prior to the ATi X1000 series & NVidia PureVideo cards. I suggest a minimum of an X1600 or 6600 based card for HDTV. An X1300PRO *may* also work. These cards will have more video playback features than lower end cards and are fast enough you won't drop frames or have skipping video with MediaPortal. My own HDTV experience has been less than perfect. I have a Sapphire (ATi) X1300 and it works fine for most HDTV PVR software out of the box but I had problems with MediaPortal. The combination of VMR9 plus Microsoft's video buffering/recording seemed to cause skipping. I had to return the HDTV tuner so I couldn't be sure if it was just a codec problem. [/QUOTE]

Verification