For anyone who's complained about nVidia drivers missing features (like TV specific ones, for example), take note of the freshly released 174 drivers. It only officially supports the GeForce 9600, of course, but look for a more global release soon, or get the modded drivers from Guru3D if you're feeling ambitious. New features sound great--though I haven't tried these out myself:
What’s New in Release 174
• Added the following pages to the NVIDIA Control Panel:
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• Added the following new Pure Video HD features for the GeForce 9600 GT:
• Per‐display controls for the video settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel
Also interesting is what's noted as permanently dropped:
DVD/MPEG Extensions (such as was provided with Windows Media Center Edition)
• Audio Extensions (such as was provided with Windows Media Center Edition)
Mike Garcen (formerly ShadyMG) TGB Moderator | MissingRemote HTPC Website| Microsoft MVP - Media Center
I'll have to check out Guru3D, if a driver is that good, they will hack the inf file to include all current cards, I still have a 7600GS 512mb card in my HTPC (still have AGP in my machine).
Will upgrade soon but, really waiting for this Cable card/DTV thing to be sorted out, to figure out of I am going to buy a new machine or build a new one....
-Dave
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