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Old 16th August 2008, 09:57 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Pioneer 508XDA + Foxtel + Nvidia ?? Anyone with ??

Folks

I would be very keen to hear from anyone who has:

Pioneer 508XDA (Kuro) Plasma
Foxtel (Actually optus didgital)
VGA or DVI
MCE2005 preferably although a Vista upgrade would be considered if it was the answer

How are you hooking it up and are you satisfied with what you have.

I currently have:

6200 Graphics Card / Forceware 94.25 drivers (I think)

Foxtel --> Hauppage 150MCE (SVIDEO)

MCE --> Plasma (SVIDEO) = desktop sucks, TV=tollerable but not great

MCE --> Plasma (VGA) = desktop as good as I want it, TV = rubbish foxtel picture does not fit screen

Can only get 1360 x 768 res
Native res of panel = 1365 x 765

I am totally struggling to get foxtel working via VGA.

Would love to know anyoneone with ANY config who has a good (I'm not a video nazi) picture. By that I mean if I plug foxtel direct to plasma via svideo - I am happy enough with picture quality although acknowledge pay tv quality sucks.

Any help appreciated - please be as verbose as poss.

TW
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Re: Pioneer 508XDA + Foxtel + Nvidia ?? Anyone with ??

problem is the XDA version are not 1920 *1280.

Although in MCE you shoudl have zoom mode to get pictures to fit to screen, the tv also can do upscaling.

I am using HDMI. I am using hauppage tuners and have no issues..... How have you configured your tv ? I would use HDMI as much as possible.

i dont have any pay tv, but you need to change your tv settings basically for each input to get the best quality as all components do not output the same.

THis is done via ISF calibration.
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Re: Pioneer 508XDA + Foxtel + Nvidia ?? Anyone with ??

Dude

YOU ARE THE MAN !!!!

I totally forgot about that f***ing zoom option.

It has been completely stuffing me. The pic was zoomed off screen by default for some reason after going through TV setup in MCE.

Have got DVI-->HDMI happening. Just got a little bot of finessing to do now to sharpen it up a smidge.

Thanks again - my wife is talking to me again. On second thoughts .....

Cheers

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