Re: MCE video quality , what's the problem?

From: Al (spam_at_spamcop.net)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:47:55 -0400

I believe that most of the problem is with the capture hardware/drivers.
The videos that are captured, while having good resolution and color, lack a
high enough/good enough interpolation mechanism to appear as high quality.
There is a distinct blurring of the playback, even on a PC.

"themonkeysupreme" <themonkeysupreme@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:44d146a8.0405111701.472eea23@posting.google.com...
> MCE'ers,
> I've been debating whether or not to get an MCE desktop for
> about 2 months now and every time I'm about to take the plunge I end
> up getting discouraged by a magazine review or post that tells me not
> to expect to get picture quality as good as that of a regular
> television set.I even went down to my local Compusa/Circuit City/Best
> Buy stores to look at the top Mce pc's from Sony and HP in action and
> was not very impressed with the video quality. I do not want to spend
> $2500 or more on a computer/monitor and not be satisfied with the
> video quality.And I even notice that there are people in this group
> that have upgraded their tuner/video cards to the supposed top models
> like the Haupauge 250 or 350 and still complain of inferior to tv
> picture quality. It seems to me that maybe they haven't got either the
> hardware or software totally figured out yet.Can anyone tell me where
> the problem is? Is it the tuner card? Monitor? Drivers? Is it the
> cable signal? and by the way, are there any cards that accept digital
> cable input?
> Any comments/suggestions/advice are welcomed.
> thanks, J.B.

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