NVidia DualTV ISF Profile

[bcjenkins]

Does anyone know how to enable the ISF profile of the NVidia card without MCE being installed? According to a review I read, ISF is not the default and Normal is. Since I have never used these on a MCE system, I can't figure out if there is a registry tweak to choose the profile.

TIA

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http://www.htpcnews.com/index.php?op...1&limitstart=1

Picture Mode - This is perhaps the most important setting. They are: Professional, Cinema, Home Theater (ISF), Normal, Vivid. These are groups of optimized brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, white balance, sharpness, and gamma. The default is "Normal". I found that not surprisingly the ISF calibrated "Home Theater" mode to be the most pleasing. This puts the DualTV right up there with the ATI Theater 550 Pro as some of the best image quality from a hardware encoding TV tuner I've seen. One of NVIDIA's main selling points is that the DualTV is ISF certified, so why NVIDIA didn't make it the card's default Picture Mode is a mystery

[kricker]

Sure would be nice to get a bit more quality out of it. I looked and looked on how it can be done and gave up after 6 months. There are some java controls and webpages that are installed with the drivers. Look in the Nvidia folder in the program files folder. Maybe those can help be a start to doing it. I even thought as much as installing MCE and just not use the Media Center part.

One question though, is do the adjustments you get with MCE give you any more control than the calibration controls in Sage. My first guess is that they are going to work the same way.

[bcjenkins]

I don't know enough about the card to know the answer to this. I didn't even install nvidia software, just extracted the drivers from the installer. I would install it though to get this if it requires it.

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[jphhughes]

The manual that on the cd gives a fairly detailed description of the settings available and what they do. Of course these are only accessable under MCE. For instance unnder the image quality section you have setting for :
Picture Mode (ISF setting)
Color Separation
Noise Reduction
VCR Input Timing

Again my point is this give you some detail of the seeting but unfortunately no way to use them with Sage.

[Polypro]

I too would like to see the ISF profile in Sage. As it sits right now, my PVR500 is the preferred card.

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