[mythtv-users] recording defects?
John Pilkington
J.Pilk at tesco.net
Wed Jun 6 17:08:23 UTC 2007
norman wrote:
> My main reason for mythtv is to be able to record and play television
> programmes which otherwise I would miss. I have an old television set
> (about 8 years old) and a new DVD player. When I play recordings that I
> have made the quality is not as good as I want. There are frequent,
> random, small rectangles of various colours occurring. I am using DVD-R
> blanks. Oddly enough, when I play a recording on a combined
> television/DVD player, probably about 2 years old, results are
> excellent.
>
> Thus I have a need to seek out the problem with my set up of new DVD
> player and old television. Are the defects I am seeing due to the old
> television set or the new DVD player. I would appreciate any suggestions
> that may be forthcoming.
>
The rectangular defects have a digital origin. If you can get a good
display from the same DVD on one box the problem is occurring in the
other DVD player - it can't read without error the digital signals from
the DVD that you have made. It could be a problem with the recorder.
The old tv won't produce this kind of defect - but poor digital
reception would. Then you'd have problems on both displays, and
mytharchive would probably have given up anyway!
John P
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