Picture Quality through MCE.

[newdamage1]

I recently built a HTPC, and have an issue with SD TV quality, with the SD cable straight into the TV, the picture isn't great, but it is livable. When switching the same cable over to the PC's tv tuner, the picture is really soft. Is this normal?

Hardware:
x2 4200
6900GT
hauppauge 150 & 1600

 

[clague]

I had the same problem. When I initially build my media center, I was planning on using it to record SDTV and playback xvids of movies. I tried numerous tuner cards (happauge, ati, etc) but the picture quality never came close to what I saw when I plugged the cable right into the TV. I had tivo before the media center and after months of looking through forums and tweaking things, I went back to the TIVO. Now that I have an HDTV I ditched the tivo and pay for the time warner dvr box. It doesn't have the options of media center or tivo for dvr, but I cannot tell the difference in picture quality between broadcast and recorded content. That makes all the difference for me. The fact that the cable box also records in 5.1 and doesn't require me dicking around with it for hours is nice too.

 

[newdamage1]

Yikes, sounds like you didn't have a good experience.

I'm betting that there is a fix somewhere for this. It might end up being a higher quality tuner card, as that is my guess as to why the tv looks better. Anyone else have this issue? or more importantly, not having this issue so you can tell us what hardware/settings you are running....

 

[w1retap]

Try adjusting your video overlay settings in the nvidia control panel.