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Originally Posted by Andy C
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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It's actually pretty important to get this clarified by VM. As if you have a decent TV or AV Amp which upscales you will be better off setting SD to output to 576 as setting it to 720p or 1080i will prevent the TV/Amp scaling.
With reguard to this, can you output HD stuff at 1080i while outputting SD at 576 or if you want HD are you forced to output everything at HD resolutions even if the box isn't scaling?