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Old 21-04-2011, 23:14   #41
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Re: TiVo Picture Quality

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Originally Posted by Perfect Choice View Post
Please report how you get on with those tweaks.

My installer was a backup (the planned installer's van had broken down apparently) and while he had been trained on the Tivo install, it was clear with a few questions that he did not know much about the features and he seemed to be more BB experienced for installs. I noticed he did adjust some frequency settings from an engineer screen on Tivo and he had to install an equaliser as the signal was too strong, but I wonder if some other fine tuning should have been done?

May be worthwhile for me to ask for a more experienced engineer to return to see if the picture can be improved from Tivo adjustments at least.

Is your engineer the person who installed your Tivo or somebody you know in VM?
See above your post for my results. Just done some more HD live prigs, like House, Eastenders, some Sky 1 HD crime drama and all look sharpish with a still camera, but as soon as the subject or background moves, it all goes very grainy and soft.

Given up tweaking. Just hope something improves, as this is just not very good at all, especially as there aren't that many HD channels.

Boz

---------- Post added at 22:10 ---------- Previous post was at 22:09 ----------

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Originally Posted by TheDon View Post
If there are tweaks or not depends on your TV really.
If your TV has a decent upscaler then you can set the box to output SD as 567p and let your TV upscale it which could give a better picture than just having Tivo upscale.
That would be ok, if you could easily change the setting. Leaving your program to navigate into settings and change output each time you flip between HD and SD would be very annoying. Can't see the wife going for that.

Boz

---------- Post added at 22:14 ---------- Previous post was at 22:10 ----------

Just tried 520p to let my tv do the upscaling and that's worse.
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