Re: Bad Live TV Signal

AFAIK the only 46" DLP HDTVs that Samsung has made have a native resolution of 1280x720.
What is the actual model number of the TV?
What resolution are you outputting over what interface to the TV?
Connect the sound out from the dish box to your tuner card along with the S-Video and connect the sound from the PC to the TV. With this configuration does only the video have stuttering problems or does the sound have problems also?
If I understand you correctly with the S-Video coming from the dish box and the OTA antenna connected to the ATSC tuner's antenna and nothing connected to the tuner cards NTSC antenna connection you can not set up MC to use both tuners, is this correct.
What channel numbers do the OTA HD channels show up with?

<dskillingstad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:b66b33a3-148d-4da4-8f02-ea03dd9cae0b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hey everyone, hope someone can help me here. In short, my live tv
signal coming from my DISH box is choppy and blurry, and looks about
VHS quality at about 15 fps. At times the video is ok, but about
every 5 seconds it gets choppy. Here's my specs:

PC (1week old)
HP m8200n
AMD dual core 6000+
3 gig RAM
500 gig HD
Hauppauge 1800 PCIe tuner card
nVidia 6150 video
Realtek 7.1 onboard sound
Windows Vista Home Premium

Samsung 46" DLP 1024x768, 75hz native resolution (1-year old)
DISH Network 311 Receiver (Brand New)
Onkyo 5.1 Theater unit (3-years old)

Here's what I've tried:
Updated drivers for mobo, video, sound, tuner card, etc. etc. I've ran
through MCE setup several times with no increase in quality. I've
downloaded the updated Hauppauge WinTV application, turned off all
non-Microsoft services and start up services. Tried S-video and coax
from the DISH receiver to the PC. Use digital out to theater unit for
sound, which works great.

The signal from my OTA antenna works great for the channels I can
receive. The HD channels look great, it's just my signal from the
DISH receiver (non-HDTV) that is bad. (I cannot get MCE to recognize
my antenna and DISH signal together, only one at a time, but that's
another issue). The recordings look the same as the live tv. The
video quality is real blocky on sports programs like football or
soccer where there's a green field....large blocks of green.

Anyways, I've contacted HP and Hauppauge supporrt and well, ,I'm sure
you all have experience with that.....it's not going real well. I
figure I have the hardware to watch the live tv....not GREAT hardware
but enough. Everything works great except for the DISH signal. I've
combed through many forums and web sites, including The Green Button
and Video Help but nothing has seemed to improve the video quality.

Any ideas or help someone could through my way? I'm beginning to feel
I've wasted some money on this PC. I don't normally buy a packaged PC
but thought I'd try a pre-built media machine......beginning to second
guess that decision.

Anyways, thanks for any help you can give me.

Don


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