Steve
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I have a Haupaugge WinTV PVR usb2, is there anyway of improving the live tv quality?
at the mo its quite good, but certain colours like skin, appear a bit wishy washy, and moving screens can deteriorate is there any way of improving the image quality?
its a bit annoying
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abdus
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are you using it on your pc screen? try adjusting the display resolution, coulour, brightness etc..I run mine without any problem
and are you using WinTV 2000 or media center software?
[Edited on 09-06-2006 by abdus]
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Steve
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media centre, hooked up to my TV
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abdus
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which leads? composite? scart?
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Steve
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svid to svid
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Steve
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still images are fine its when things start to move, notice it lots in this footie match
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abdus
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
svid to svid
hmmm....try other leads..i'm using scart to composite and works a treat
it might be the s-video leads causing this
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Steve
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k bought a scart to composite, seems a bit better, not getting the "digitized" effect of skin tones, moving images are still a little shadowy but its deffo an improvement
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Steve
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oh well, the problem is still ther and its bugging me too much, il send the pvr receiver back and go back to sky+ methinks, the video just looks like VCD on a bad day TBH, certain tones look like dodgy GIF's where the blending becomes pixellated, im not very impressed
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Bart
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what colour mode are you watching it in?
16/32?
try which ever one its not on now.
are you watching it through the actual MCE software?
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abdus
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yeah, i get dvd quality.......exceleent quality, i use only composite leads and the image quality/sound quality is just great.......
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Steve
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quote:
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what colour mode are you watching it in?
16/32?
try which ever one its not on now.
are you watching it through the actual MCE software?
yep all thru the MCE software, tried all latest decoders cyberlink, intervideo nvidia etc etc how do i change the colour mode? just in display properties? its at 32bit atm
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Steve
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16bit colours causes it no to display tv at all
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Steve
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also to add if i have scrolling text across the screen it is unreadable goes very shadowy, whereas if i go to normal sky its perfectly clear when scrolling, i think its all part of the same problem
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John
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Thats just what tv coming from the pc is goin to look like unfortunately.
If you play about with the display settings you can normally get either text or video looking good but not both.
I use my normal crt tv for watching stuff I dl but its useless for using as a monitor.
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abdus
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i'm using my PVR through my pc to my LCD and there is absolutely nothing i can complain.
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John
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Settings would make a difference.
Why you using scart to composite on an lcd instead of vga or dvi?
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abdus
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quote:
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Settings would make a difference.
Why you using scart to composite on an lcd instead of vga or dvi?
let me check.... so many wires behind desk
no, now I'm using scart to composite (from decoder to pvr) then connect to laptop via usb, then image goes to LCD via VGA
watch it via WinTV 2000 with excellent viewing/recording image and sound quality.
Then I use my other scart to my LCD if I want to watch tv directly and record also...
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Steve
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if i watch an avi or dvd its fine, just live tv, very frustrating
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John
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Hmm, problem with usb somewhere?
defo usb 2.0?
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abdus
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yes i think it's usb2.0 or service pack 2
try reading this:
http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=301442
[Edited on 11-06-2006 by abdus]
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Steve
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hmm cant see much to help in that thread, my pc is service pack 2, and usb is 2.0,
only thing i could try is buying an external usb2 hub see if that makes any dif
[Edited on 11-06-2006 by Steve]
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abdus
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did you try using only wintv 2000 instead of the MCE software?
btw did you install everything from the drviver's cd? i remember the 1st time i set it up, i removed some stuff from add/remove programs and the pvr made life very diffciult until i did a full re-install
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Steve
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yeah did the install from the mce cd
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abdus
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quote:
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yeah did the install from the mce cd
no, from the software provided with the pvr?
there are some codecs maybe that need to be put in, direct show, the actual driver, etc...
But from an earlier post, i would say that it is hardware problem since you stated that when you changed the leads, there was an improvement
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