[mythtv-users] Simple Question About TV Out Quality

[Aran Cox]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:09, Michael Starks wrote:
> It is hard to see how picture quality can, as a rule,
> exceed what you get from a standard TV on the cable.
> 
> In the standard TV, the cable signal is decoded by
> the tuner and the resulting video is displayed.  With
> Myth (or TiVo, or Replay), you're substituting a
> different tuner and some additional signal processing....
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> 
> Thank you for the response, however that's not quite what I'm looking for.
> I'm interested to know if *subjectively*, people are as pleased with video
> out to a TV as they are with the tuner in their TV.  In other words, how
> does it look?  (Again, generally and subjectively speaking.)
> 
> 
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I think the tv-out from my GeForce4 TI4200 is ok, the tv-out from my
GeForce 2 GTS is so-so, and the tv-out from my xbox is really nice.  The
tv-out from the cheap AverKey VGA-TV converters I have suck.  I might
have previously said on this list I thought they looked ok, but there is
no comparison to even the GeForce2 GTS I have.

Of course, I am not saying that MythTV recordings look as good as the
broadcast... well probably not quite.  It's so convenient though that I
haven't watched normal TV in so long I'm not sure I remember what it
looks like.  In defense of MythTV, I have cheap capture cards and
terrible cable reception and that has a lot to do with the way the final
playback looks IMO.