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Stridsvognen and Marc (noos@xp37+) had one which did not work in this regard.

The Hdfury 4 will work for frame tripling from 24 to 72hz when running HDMI in->out. I was never able to make the scaler GUI work, so i dont have any controle over the porch settings to push out the raster ringing. Hdfury has some of the worse support i have ever experienced, they prommise features and specs they cant hold, i was prommised a special 72hz firmware with the right timings to push out the raster ringing, the promise was made on the Hdfury forum, but as usual they edit and delete the forum so it look good for other buyers who read there. They also claim a 225Mhz analog out bandwidth, it wont do 150Mhz right, and 178Mhz is distorted. It look like they pay for advertising on AVS so it has not been possible to write user feedback over there.

I tested 2 Hdfury4 units with identical results.

Anyway, we are so close to UHD that i bet there wil be a Hdfury5 or something else that will do the bandwidth for both 1080P 72 and 96hz, i expect the new UHD BD to be a 60hz source, so that should remove the need for frame manipulation.

The Marquee worked perfect with the HDFury 4 and the Barco too when I connect the Oppo at let it triple the framerate to 72 Hz.

Eventually I could even get 72Hz on the Barco and the Marquee using custom timings with so very small porches that it was not usable. A part of the image was missing. Also the picture was not stable. But it showed that 72Hz looked better in my opinion.

I do not think drhdmi is going to fix this as the HDFury is a powered adapter too.

Now this seems my last option. A powered displayport to dvi cable.
thetechreviewer.com/computer/apple-mini-displayport-to-dual-link-dvi-adapter-review/

Yeah but I have to buy a new motherboard and cpu and in the past I could never get the pc to work without judder. I do have a good video card btw. The mac used to be the easy solution. Just use vlc player and watch without judder. It turned out I needed a faster harddrive ssd to get rid of an occasional glitch evry half an houre.

but with windows evrything is multitasking and I had to kill all those services etc. Perhaps that is not so anymore?

tempting to try one day.

Absolutely could not agree more on their support ( or obvious lack there of ) and the fact their products fail to meet their claimed specs. This is why im saying buy a product from someone reputable instead of supporting these clowns.

Even when i did get the GUI to work i wasnt able to get the unit to run the porch settings i set into it, it just kept the standard timings no matter what i did. There were others that also had this same issue.

I don't know, I am quite happy with the judder of my configuration. That is sure once you set up your HTPC turn off all automatic updates -those are useless for these single purpose computers anyway. My current favorite is AMD's AM1 APUs, you can have an APU+mobo combo for less than $100. For that money you get  a quad core CPU, and at least three different monitor connectors on board (VGA, DVI, HDMI) with reasonable VGA power, and all this consumes 25W. Intel also has similar configuration in the person of the J1900 quad core cpu integrated on a moteher board, simlar price similar, computing power, slightly worse integrated VGA, but also consumes less power.

Both of those can serve a very efficient HTPC, I went with the AMD because it still can output interlaced resolutions while intel can't, but I think that won't be a problem for you, both accept custom display timings, etc. With PC you can have much better players than VLC, like MPC-HC and MadVR codecs...