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Old 16-08-2011, 17:03   #454
clinteastman
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Re: TiVo Picture Quality
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Originally Posted by jimrobo View Post
thanks for that I've set it to panel I'll see if its any better.

I have 576p, 720p, 1080i all ticked. I'm assuming it sends the best quality avaible out of what you have ticked to the tv??

I realise if I leave it i probably will just get used to it but part of me thinks hang on why should I get used to it??!! There was nothing wrong with my v+ and also they didn;t tell me that the damn thing would cost 3 pounds a month until after I'd upgraded and they were confirming the engineer visit. I am not exactly a low subscription either. I pay around 110 pounds a month. Why should I have to get used to something that is lower quality and pay more! There's something majorly wrong with that! Add that to the fact I paid 7 pounds to get sky sports hd to watch the rugby internationals to find out that sky have it on skyports hd3 and virgin only give me 1 and 2! sorry bit of a rant moment there!
No need to apologise about ranting, the rest of us don't!

On the output front your best off just picking one, 576p I would ditch, you may think "I'll let my TV up scale" but the problem with that is you have SD up scaled menus too, not a good look, also TiVo ignores it if you have any higher res selected (by design).

The up scaling bug is less noticeable at 720p but you do then get shimmer on some text on screen (not the menus). At 1080i everything looks fuzzier.

All this is IMHO so your results will differ, and the fix is coming I promise, plus fixes for a lot of those other TiVo annoyances, that's all I can say.
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