<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Paul Gardiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@glidos.net" target="_blank">lists@glidos.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">About to give in, and update my current ION1 frontend<br>
to a zbox. Just looking for some advice on which to<br>
choose. I may need to hurry if I want an ID41.<br>
<br>
I'm mainly wondering if a GT520M in any way produces<br>
higher quality than an ION2 (e.g., maybe using more bits<br>
in transformations).<br>
<br>
P.<br></blockquote></div><br>what is your definition of "higher quality" in this context?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">the visual output should be the same, sometimes absolute brightness/contrast levels might be different because of the chipset, or other factors, but I don't think it they will be so different as to be of concern.<br>
<br>I believe the 520 has a newer "version" of the vdpau/purevideo hardware and can decode more codecs in hardware(if that matters I would look into that further). both will pass through the new higher bitrate audio codecs.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Neither is fast enough for Advanced 2x deinterlacing, however most people see no difference between them in their normal tv watching between Advanced 2x and the other deinterlacing options. (however, if you watch a lot of sports and your TV's post-processing interferes, you may notice some jutter).<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Both should do fine at hardware scaling and like deinterlacing show no generally noticeable difference.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The ID80 should be marginally faster for non-video decoding things like the menu interface and such, if that is of concern and worth the potential price difference.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Which, in the end I would be more concerned with, which one is cheaper ;-)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br>Steve<br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Steveadeff" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Steveadeff</a><br>
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