<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well it must be the compression then, or my setup. All I know is that sporting<br>events, for example, don't look crisp. The picture is "soft". I have a
<br>PVR-500 card and I have raised the bitrate some, after discussing my<br>impressions in the past. After I spent the weekend at my girlfriend's place,<br>her 27" $300 Phillips TV looks way better than my setup and so I got to
<br>wondering what I could do. There are so many variables to fiddle with I lost<br>interest working through them but now I want to try again.<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<br>A lot of what you are seeing is probably due to the compression. While the PVR is a nice capture card, it's output still looks like crap (particularly when dealing with football) compared to a decent quality uncompressed analog signal.
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