poor quality with Hauppage PVR 500
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2006-01-01, 05:30 PM
I have a Hauppage WinTV PVR 500 card. The quality of the video is not very good. It seems very picky about the signal from the TV cable. When i plug the TV cable into my TV, the picture looks good, but when it goes through the Hauppage card, it looks a bit snowy. Anyone know what's up??
2006-01-03, 05:58 PM
What decoder are you using? Overlay, VMR7/9?
Have you tried the hauppauge tweak tool? http://www.cask-of-amontillado.com
You can never have enough tuners!
Pentium Quad / 4Gb Dual Channel RAM / XPSP3 / 2 x PVR-500, PVR-250 / GB-PVR
2006-01-03, 10:16 PM
Jimi Wrote:I have a Hauppage WinTV PVR 500 card. The quality of the video is not very good. It seems very picky about the signal from the TV cable. When i plug the TV cable into my TV, the picture looks good, but when it goes through the Hauppage card, it looks a bit snowy. Anyone know what's up??The tuner on the Hauppage cards (and all cards as a matter of fact) is not as good as the tuner inside your TV. I have noticed a similar problem on my system and other systems as well; NBC is crisp clear on the TV, yet it has horizontal bars when I am using Wintv. Advice: Get a better antenna cable; a Monster cable with gold plated ends made all the difference.
Setup: AMD 1.4 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 128 MB Video Card, 200 GB HDD, PVR-150 MCE
2006-01-03, 11:21 PM
My PVR-150MCE produces a better picture than my Samsung TV.
It sounds like you have a driver issue or a bad card.
[SIZE="1"]GBPVR 1.0.8 Xeon 2.0 GHz, 1GB ECC RAM XP Pro SP2
1x40GB IDE HDD (OS & Programs), 1x160GB IDE HDD (Content) Hauppauge PVR-150MCE PCI (NTSC), Driver rev 2.0.43.24054 MVP 34 button remote, S-Video to HDTV Millennium Analog Cable TV/Internet Plugins: Utils: ComSkip .79_98, Skin: Blue[/SIZE]
2006-01-04, 08:12 AM
Check your cables and consider adding an amplifier - I had a poor picture with Ghosting, replaced the cable and added an amplifer - I now have better picture on the PVR than on the TV!
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