[mythtv-users] colour "sharpness" question

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Oct 18 04:04:01 UTC 2006


On Oct 17, 2006, at 8:17 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:

>
> I am a real new with Myth, and have had almost a year's experience  
> using
> another tuner (ATI TV All-In-Wonder) on Windows as the only "TV"  
> I've ever
> owned in a long while. I bought a PVR-500MCE kit and a cheapo new  
> box for
> it. I have a question about how my colours appear different on my old
> machine vs my new machine.
>
> The best way I can describe the difference is that the old picture  
> looks
> like video while the new picture looks like film. I don't know if  
> it's the
> tuner card, or the video card, or the monitors, or some settings.  
> Since I
> was so used to the old machine, the new one is an adjustment, and  
> since
> I've never A/B-ed either machine with a regular TV I don't know what's
> real.
>
> Can anyone give me an idea of what to look at?

Not really sure what you mean. One big difference between film and  
video is that film has a vastly greater contrast ratio than CRT  
phospors or LCD/Plasma screens, but I don't think that's what you are  
talking about.

Am I inferring correctly that you prefer the old device? If you are  
using too low a bitrate for MPEG-2 with the PVR you might get less  
than desirable results, but you don't mention how you were watching  
TV with the ATI.

You might just be having your first experience with MPEG artifacts or  
soft pictures due to low bitrate.


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