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Originally Posted by ahardie
I think you have misunderstood his post Stephen. He says all (sd?) programmes look like that.
Personally, as someone still awaiting installation, I cant understand if the tivo is that bad why there is no consensus on this. It seems to me the majority are saying they cannot see this with some saying the pq is even better. It has to be noted also that some say that they have had to play with the settings on the tv to improve the pq.
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If John's finding more recently filmed SD shows just as bad or has a preference for older material then he may be better off with the V+. The earlier episodes of
Friends never looked good to me on the V+ and even the later ones aren't that great in the PQ stakes. I'm surprised they haven't upscaled them to nearer HD quality like they did for the
Seinfeld DVDs a few years back - those look very good compared with the original broadcast versions.
The reason there's no consensus is people have different TVs, sizes and viewing habits. As I said in a previous post on this thread I watch very little SD now and only go there for stuff not available in HD -
Rubicon on BBC4 (picture quality good);
Justified on Five USA (PQ better than Freeview but not great); and BBC News (PQ variable). For me, a couple of hours a week of SD wouldn't be reason to abandon TiVo, especially as the 720p setting improves things a little. And, ideally,
Rubicon would be shown on BBC HD and
Justified on Five HD - both are quality imports and would be preferable to the constant repeats on the former and much of the SD tosh on the latter.