<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Eric Sharkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org" target="_blank">eric@lisaneric.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Tom Bongiorno <<a href="mailto:tbjr@bongohut.com">tbjr@bongohut.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The first, STB->HDPVR->MythTV->TV vs. STB->TV, but they should yield<br>
> identical results as the CableCard tuners do not alter the video stream.<br>
<br>
</span>Not necessarily. If the MythTV -> TV output is via HDMI and the STB<br>
output is component, I was wondering if some of the softness you were<br>
seeing was caused not by the HDPVR recording, but by your STB<br>
component output. In other words, if the STB does digital -> analog<br>
and the HDPVR does analog -> digital, which of those two conversions<br>
causes the softness (or is it a bit of both)? Could it be that I<br>
don't see that effect not because I'm different than you, but because<br>
I have a different STB?<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Eric<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I could believe that the STB component out was subpar. The STB->TV was DVI, and the STB->HDPVR was component. It could have easily been the STB's fault. I think is was a Scientific Atlanta 4250HDC. I did set the HDPVR to the highest bitrate. That was one of the first things I checked.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Tom</div></div>