Re: Recorded TV Quality

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From: Rich (Rich_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:45:01 -0800

Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I had much better luck with it last
night. I'll keep in mind the thoughts on the video card. I'll try and
upgrade it at some point. But at least now I am in a good place with it.

Thanks all.

"Brett Ramdeen" wrote:

> "Rich" wrote:
>
> > The machine is a Dell machine that I have installed MCE 2005 on. And the
> > video card is ATI Radeon 9250 PCI (Should I have gone with the AGP???) and
> > the driver version number is 6.14.10 (dated 11-30-04) and the DVD/MPEG
>
> The Radeon 9250 may be the culprit. That card is not DX9 complaint - its a
> DX8 video card, and MCE 2005 requires a DX9 video card.
>
> I've had similar problems as yours and my machines specs are the same as
> yours. I was using a Radeon 8500, which the Radeon 92xx line is based on.
> The problem persisted. I then bought a 9600 and haven't had a problem since.

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