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Originally Posted by John_taxi
I had Virgin TiVo installed yesterday, we moved the v+ box to another room.
If you watched an american tv programme, e.g friends, a couple of years ago the picture was very soft and almost blurred looking........Well this is TiVo......I have an lg 42" and have compared the v+ and TiVo pictures..... No comparison v+ 10/10, TiVo 6/10.... Very disappointed however if you are used to watching tv on your pc then TiVo is for you.....I will be returning it today!!!!! Great product, poor picture......I reckon Sky will be breathing a sigh of releif, as for Richard Branson?
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Exactly my experience. I breathed a sigh of relief when VM agreed to take my TiVo back. After 10 years or so TiVo should have been a lot better!
It is all very well others saying they had to tweak their TV settings - I have four main sources, all of them HD, and all go through a high quality Octavo hdmi switchbox into the single hdmi input on my plasma panel. I tweaked the picture using the Video Essentials and it looks great on Blu Ray, Apple TV and the French satellite HD service TNTSat. Looks great with VM V+ too and with Freeview HD and SD from a 3View box.
Along comes TiVo and I get a very soft SD picture and HD that looks like one of the better V+ SD channels and the advice I am given is to tweak the TV settings. How is that going to help? In the course of initially setting up the panel I had turned off practically all the digital processing and made sure the picture has a sensible contrast level, minimum sharpening etc. etc.. All I could do to tweak further is to switch on various digital processing options - which I don't want to do. Why is it that only TiVo out of 6 sources would need this extra tweaking?