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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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What is more relevant for me personally is why everybody is not seeing this. I am not doubting what you saw scgf, the pq
was obviously worse for you. On the thread you started about this in the tivo forums though only one person reported worse pq. Many said it was the same as the V+ and some even better. One poster who had swapped from a Sky HDbox said the tivo had better pq.
This issue is of particular concern to me as I am fussy about pq and I am getting my box fitted next week. Enough people are saying it is not an issue ( on their setup) though for me to be not too worried.