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Originally Posted by E2R
Had Tivo nearly two weeks and find it very good indeed. It's coupled to a 60" Pioneer KURO which makes the SD pictures very acceptable but I agree they are not as good as either the Samsung or Scientific boxes.
The installation engineer thought the software drivers in the Tivo will be updated to improve SD pictures to match the old boxes. He also said that every time a new HD channel is introduced the SD channels are squeezed (compressed) a little more causing the SD problems but not explaining why the Tivo suffers most.
Finally, he believes the network will shortly upgrade to 256 QAM from 64 QAM to get more bandwidth but I read somewhere that this had already been done. Anyone know?
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Have a look at nedkelly's posts re 256 QAM. He is a network tech.
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...l#post35184142