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Originally Posted by spiderplant
It depends on the output resolutions you've selected. If you've ticked all 5 boxes it passes through whatever it gets. Otherwise it will up- or downscale as necessary.
My TV doesn't support 576i over HDMI so I wouldn't be able to watch SD if it always passed through.
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I did some experimenting last night and only enabled 576p output so the TV, menus, everything was forced out at 576 as confirmed by my TV which displays the current mode. The SD menus and SD TV looked no different than when forced to upscale to 720p or 1080i. Even the HD menus looked decent (the TV has to use it's internal scaler to fill the 1920x1080 screen res). I then forced 720p out only, still no difference in SD image quality whereas the V+ would have upscaled and sharpened the image. Finally I forced 1080i only and was definitely the worst for SD broadcasts. So to me it appears TiVo is making no effort to resize and sharpen the image when set to 720p or 1080i.
576i was blurry as hell. There again if there's motion on screen 1080i gives a less sharp and less smooth image than 1080p.
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