Colossus vs DCR2650

[mikeh49]

I'm deciding between a Colossus and DCR 2650. At this point, the Colossus is overall less expensive ($2/mo cablecard plus $49 install fee for the DCR) at the cost of one tuner and tying up the STB during recording. The two devices are essentially the same price at the moment. Copy freely is not an issue on my cable system, at least for now.

I can live with the STB issue and a single tuner, but I'm not sure if the 9500GT video card can handle the h.264 recordings of the Colossus. I know it can handle HD MPEG2 that the DCR would output.

So, can anyone confirm (more or less) that the 9500GT can/should handle h.264 and which decoder would be "best" for this. (Need DXVA as I understand for good h.264.)

TIA.

[JonnyCam]

The 9500 will handle 1080i h264 fine, my system uses the 9400 and is great.
You can just use the standard Win 7 decoders, ffdshow, or Cyberlink (some also use CoreAVC - and I think that uses CUDA decoding on your Nvidia card)