[mythtv-users] Big Myth system (2-3 satellite receivers + capture devices, 5 tvs, Samsung DLNA) ?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 7/28/2011 10:42, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Andre<mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk>  wrote:
>>> DLNA can give much better picture quality than any Myth frontend, direct access to the TV's integrated decoder has benefits
>> I have my doubts about that.  You're basically saying that your TV
>> will have a much better picture when decoding compressed video
>> internally than any possible signal delivered via HDMI.  If that's the
>> case, then I'd say your TV has a broken HDMI input implementation.
>
> He's saying that the decoder, renderer, and scaler know the exact
> capabilities of the TV, and thus are tuned to best deliver high quality
> video.

But the statement "much better picture quality than *any* Myth
frontend" (emphasis added) implies that it is not possible to
similarly tune an HDMI source, no matter how much you want to work at
it.

I'll accept the following:

  DLNA can give a somewhat better picture quality than a typical
off-the-shelf Myth frontend.

If you want to go further than that, I have some Monster cables you
might be interested in...

Eric