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Originally Posted by scgf
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?
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Yours is a prime example as to why VM really need to investigate this. I have done all the tweaking possible and the bottom line the video output from Tivo is just not as good. This is a real gap for VM, yet some seem to have a perfectly good picture and others are returning their boxes, cannot be good.