I will
someday get around to writing a review for Mark on
Tivo.
Basically,
you have a choice of settings on Tivo to determine quality, on it’s
highest it’s
comparable to S-VHS on a good day on the next, “High Quality”
setting, it is
not a million miles away from S-VHS, definitely better that plain old VHS
but
below that I wouldn’t bother as the quality just is not there for
most people
that actually care about what they watch. The one thing, the trade off if
you
like, is that the lower the quality the more artefacting in the picture and
degradation in the resolution.
K.
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From: Jason Lee
[mailto:jasonjlee@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 June 2001 11:32
To: Ukha_D@Egroups. Com
Subject: [ukha_d] Tivo vs
Showshifter..
Hi
everyone,
Just a
quick question. Can anyone give me an idea of the picture quality of a tivo
vs
a good showshifter setup.
I've
been using showshifter since the first release, and it's got much much
better,
but I still have some issues that are not software
related.
I
find
the tv in/out combination of most graphics cards leads to a duller tv
picture
if watched on tv, compared to the direct tv feed.
I
have
tried a g400 DH with a hand made RGB scart output, with a WINTV for
input.
I adjusted the display to nearly full screen PAL, good enough for me
anyway..
The general
'windows' display is good, but running SS the tv display looks washed
out.
Tweaking the settings improves things a little, but I think its the limit
of
the WINTV card. This is from a svideo feed from a jvc svhs from an ntl
digital
RGB scart.
Does
anyone here use any ATI cards at all?
Do
they
produce full screen PAL tv signals? (I think from memory they
do)
Does
fullscreen SS display, when viewed on a TV look as good as normal
tv?
Can
you
flick from a direct source and the PC on the TV and not really tell the
difference?
Now,
the Tivo I saw in dixons yesterday and the picture quality looked great (as
it
should) but I didn't get the chance to test it.
Sorry
to ask so many questions, but I've been burned to many times with buying
hardware which underperforms.
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