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Hardware Support Discussions related to using various hardware setups with SageTV products. Anything relating to capture cards, remotes, infrared receivers/transmitters, system compatibility or other hardware related problems or suggestions should be posted here.

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Old 02-07-2007, 06:13 AM
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Intel Onboard Graphics - Image Quality?

I'm quite taken with this system as a client:
http://www.higrade.com/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=3372

However, it isn't using nVidia or ATI's chipsets for graphics - instead it's the "Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900" from the Intel 945GM/ ICH7-M chipset.

Does anyone know how good this is at deinterlacing and upscaling and generally making any content look as good as possible on a 1080p monitor?
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Old 02-07-2007, 09:11 AM
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Apparently it's the GMA 950 - and prediuctably the only reviews online sem to focus on games.

Anyway, the system I linked to above is no good as it requires an external IR receiver.
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Old 02-07-2007, 11:54 AM
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The mac mini uses the GMA950 chipset too, and with the core 2 CPU's it seems to do fine playing back MPEG2 HD. No reports yet of h.264 support, but it seems to be competant at HD.

Not the GMA900 was not nearly as good so make sure you avoid that.

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Old 02-07-2007, 04:10 PM
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I have GMA900 in my SD Client, does a perfectly good job (as good as the Nvidia I used previously).
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Old 02-07-2007, 04:14 PM
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Cool, that's interesting to know. Thanks.
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Old 02-07-2007, 06:52 PM
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Keep in mind that smooth playback and PQ are two completely different things. What some people find acceptable others wouldn't be satisfied with. I'm not saying these boards are bad. I'm just pointing out that PQ is a highly subjective topic.

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Old 02-08-2007, 01:53 PM
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Yeah, and keep in mind that the Earth is round, and that bears sh*t in the woods...
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