[mythtv-users] Improving picture quality. (A newb's strugglewith Myth)

James Satterfield jsatter at uberduper.com
Fri Jun 18 00:26:39 EDT 2004


I should have mentioned that I'm using a 55" non HD TV.

James.

"Ijaaz A. Ullah" <ijaaz at digitalmethods.com> wrote: 
>I think you'll see the difference on larger screens.  I can tell the
>difference between 3500-5000 and 8000-10000 on my 57" TV.
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>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of J. Donavan Stanley
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>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Improving picture quality. (A newb's
>strugglewith Myth)
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>James Satterfield wrote:
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>>After receiving lots of help from folks on IRC (thanks Ashlar, Iggy, Jams,
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>>and Cesman!) I've got a fully functioning MythTV box. I've spent a lot of
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>>time trying to tweak everything to improve the picture quality. I'm trying
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>>to get the image on par with Tivo and ReplayTV. I've come a long way so 
>>far. Got rid of almost all of the twitchyness I was seeing by kicking the
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>>bitrate up to 8000-10000. Now I just want to sharpen up the tv picture a 
>>bit. DVD playback looks perfect.
>>
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>That bitrate is insanely high.  I record a 704x480  with 3500-5000 
>bitrate and it by far exceeds my old Tivo, I've even done blind A/B 
>comparisons with folks and they've all said the Myth box looked better.
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