Re: Bad quality in Live and Recorded TV...

Digital SD signal is still the same res, only way to improve is with HD
channels. However, I think that if the SD signal or a DVD is playing at
normal size, it does look better on a monitor than most TV's.

Same issue occurs on many HD TV that do a poor job of upscaling the SD
signal to HD display -- it looks worse than on an old SD TV.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL


"Cliff Hemstock" <chemstoc.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So what is the fix? Get Digital TV signal from cable Co ?????

II just set up the Video card (G-force) to not scale and the
image fills about the center half of my screen, so I see where you are
coming from.

I think this ranks up there with the people THINKING that because they
have an HD TV they are watching HD TV ....

Thanks for the input / help

--
Living the Dream


"Jaime" wrote:

Maybe a little more explanation of what the image looks like would help.

If you are watch SD on a 19" PC monitor (full screen), it's not going to
look like a PC image. SD is only 480 lines of resolution, which is
essentially the lowest resolution for PC monitor. When you have the
monitor
set for a higher res (like 1280x1024), the image will look worse than a
TV,
because the system has invent all those extra pixels needed to fill the
screen. No different than taking a low res thumbnail and zooming to full
screen; the resolution is what it is. You are also sitting a couple of
feet
from the image as opposed to across the room from a TV

How does the image look if you aren't running it full screen?

Have you connected the system to a SD TV, to see what it looks like.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), FL

"Cliff Hemstock" <chemstoc.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Even with KB941229 and running on a HP m8150n
the video recorder and live TV are still unacceptable on
a state of the art Viewsonic vx2035wm monitor.

Neither the hardware manufacturer nor Microsoft can
seem to understand whqat the "problem" is. The problem
is that this is sold and marketed as a "MultiMedia Machine"
and it doesn't do regular TV very well. Not even with teh DVI
connector and all the best codecs loaded.

"Not in the house, not with a mouse, I do not like Green
Eggs and Ham ..."

Baring all the technical explanations, the "reasonable man"
consumer would think that if he purchased an $1,800 computer
it could display a TV signal on a 19 inch screen good enough to watch
it
!!!

I am not giving up yet ... The Green Button has some hacks that seem to
work....
trouble is that even the DVD doesn't paly as good as it dows on the old
TV
:(







Living the Dream


"DM" wrote:

As this is an old post I don't know if you're still following it or
not.

I think I'm having the same problem as you and I would be interested
to
know
if there is any improvement to recorded tv quality when it is player
in
Windows Media Player (not Media Center)?





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