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Originally Posted by passingbat
I do find this question mark over SD picture quality a big concern; the SA V+ box was excellent on SD.
But with only 20 hours of HD recording on the V+ box, replacing it with a Tivo with much more space is the only option to resolve lack of space issues.
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Well the 1TB HD is the get out clause for the alleged SD PQ issues. I can pretty much get everything I want now in HD. And I say alleged because it's quite subjective.
I found even with SA V+ that the SD images had a fair bit of compression noise/artefacts, but on the whole were quite sharp. I wonder if the Tivo is just trying to clean it up but ends up with softness as a result.
I'm not sure I'd blame VM/Cisco/Tivo though as really the underlying issue is the low bit rates. You can't polish a turd.