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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"><br>Jesse,<br>My problem is indeed the blocks random of colors in the middle of the screen that cover the picture, plus pausing and hesitating. It does not happen when playing the signal through my cable box, so I assumed it's not a signal problem, BUT ... my cable provider did tell me at one point that my signal was "less than perfect" so ... is it possible that the HDTV-5500 requires a better signal than what the cable box does? <br>
<br>Anyway, I will try to tweak the other settings, and see if that helps. <br><br>Let me take this opportunity to say **thanks*** to everyone on this board for your willingness to share your knowledge ... I must have solved dozens of issues by searching the mailing list archives (even if many messages are about hardware and technically "off topic" viz. mythtv itself, they are still incredibly helpful) and y'all are great.<br>
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<div>I have two HDTV-5500 cards in my MythTV system. They work perfect without any artifacts. The biggest difference I had was with the antenna. I tried several different antenna's and found that the cheaper ones that don't plug in work the best for me. But I also live in the urban part of the city and the others were just too powerful.</div>
<div>I record all OTA content with most of it being 1080. My system is a duel-core AMD 3800+. I use to have an AMD 1800+, but it could not handle the 1080i content. It handled 480 just fine and even 720 pretty good, but 1080 was just too much.</div>
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