Ghosting when watching live tv.

[Manoe]

Picture looks great other than the ghosting of objects on the screen. It is strange. Is this a setting that needs changing? Anyone help?

[sgilani]

What's your signal source? If you're getting off-the-air channels from an antenna, it's probably just poor reception due to multipath issues.

[Manoe]

No, I have digital Cable. Its not basic noise or poor reception. The picture looks great other than this. Let me try to explain.

If there is a person on the screen and they move left to right you see ghosting of that person along the path they took. It lasts maybe a second and fades as it is farther from the real person image. Like a motion blur almost.

[sub]

What type of capture card are you using.

What is your deinterlacing setting set to?

[ejeffers]

Also, are you using an LCD, because older older/cheaper LCD monitors and TV's can have poor response times that result in ghosting.

[Manoe]

Capture card is a PVR-150. It is on my 36" TV. It very well could be the deinterlacing because I have no idea what it is set to. Most likely it is on the default setting.

Is there a certain setting that it should be on for the PVR-150 card?

[sub]

The default setting should be 'encoder pass-through', but if you've changed it to 'none' you can get a horizontal blur when there is motion on the screen.

[birty]

the ghosting is likely caused by poor quality cabling between your cable box and the pc

[capone]

That's a setting on the tv card, or the decoders. I used to get that a lot when I changed the temporal/spacial settings off the defaults (pvr-150). I used to see it the most clearly in cartoons/anime.

I have no one way to help fix, if you didn't change anything.

Btw, that is if sub's thing didn't help/work, and you're still looking for a cause.

[Manoe]

This doesnt seem to be much of a problem anymore. It was on the setting SUB posted. I also got the problem fixed with the times not matching up with the Programs in the EPG. System settings were on Est. DUH...

Main problem is that I am still getting only 1 or two channels to show up!!!! I dont understand it. I am using an AIW card with the S-Video out to the TV and running the spdif from the motherboard to the Tuner for surround sound. I dont understand what is wrong and why I cannot see the stations. Just loud Static.

In the config I have by PVR-150 set up. Anyone else running a PVR-150 on XP that is not a media center from MS? I would love to see your settings in a little screenshot. It seems all so basic.