Originally Posted by bsw:
“Well it's an ATI 5450 card, which I believe is quite a reasonable card and the TV is a Sony KDL-40V400. The card is set to output 1080i50 but the result is not as good as from the HRD and I'm trying to figure out why. 1080p60 or 1080i60 seem to make it slightly worse.”
I assume that the HTPC has a satellite tuner card on board and you are using the same channel on both it and the Foxsat to compare quality?
If so then there is no reason why the two have to be perfectly identical. There is a shed load of processing that goes on in the electronics between the tuner and the HDMI lead. Unless your HTPC uses exactly the same gubbins as the Foxsat then it is entirely understandable why they should be different.
They are simply processing the data in different ways.