- Sat TV Guide within MCE.
- Posted by darklee on March 5th, 2006
Hi guys , Hope someone can help please.
I have just built my first MCE pc, works fine apart from that my Sky doesn't
have Svid out only coax and so I cannot get the listings or set it to record
automaticaly etc etc. So either I have to get a Sky box with Svid out
or.......
If anyone can help I would be Muchos Happyous. Thanks.
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lee
- Posted by Nigel Barker on March 5th, 2006
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 04:23:27 -0800, darklee <darklee@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
You can get a SCART to composite lead or an RGB-> s-video converter. However the
best picture quality is to get a digibox with s-video out & I bought a second
han Sky+ box to use as a standard digibox feeding MCE for this very reason.
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Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
- Posted by Chris Oldroyd on March 5th, 2006
Nigel Barker wrote:
I have my setup with a standard sky box with no svideo output, I have a
scart to composite lead which is plugged in to the three connectors on
the back of my pvr150 mce card. I am totally disappointed with the
picture quality and the sound is really poor too. Would upgrading my box
to sky+ so i can use svideo offer that much improvement visually and
what can i do to improve my sound quality??
Any advice would be much appreciated as this baby is my entetainment
center away from the wife so it needs to be good
Thanks
Chris
- Posted by darklee on March 5th, 2006
I think that might be the only answer, thanxs m8ty.
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lee
"Nigel Barker" wrote:
- Posted by darklee on March 5th, 2006
I tried the Scart adapter to TV card ( I have a 150 mce too), the new Sky box
seems 2 be the way ahead........THX
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lee
"Chris Oldroyd" wrote:
- Posted by kalev- on March 6th, 2006
darklee wrote:
FWIW: I just wanted to mention that I bought a (expensive) RGB to s-video
converter from the UK. (JS Technology) But I'm very happy with the results.
(My STB only had RGB and composite outputs.)
The difference to lower grade composite-video is BIG. Higher resolution,
"cleaner" and clear colours. I find it well worth it, but yes, it's
expensive... In particular if you have a big screen it should be hard to
ignore this "necessity". One of the reasons I decided not to use another
STB (with S-video output) was that the MCE IR-blasting works WELL with this
STB. I don't want to risk it with another brand and find out that it
doesn't work as well..
PS: I had to fine-tune the Haup. PVR500 "grabber-card" input-levels with
Haup. "Tweaker" to get it right: brightness/contrast/saturation. I just
thought I should mention it.
- Posted by Chris Oldroyd on March 6th, 2006
- Posted by Nigel Barker on March 6th, 2006
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 11:30:58 +0100, kalev- <you.wish@duh.net> wrote:
I was using a cheap RGB->s-video converter that I bought from Maplins that was
definitely an improvement on composite video. However the native s-video out on
the Sky+ box that I bought is clearly better than using the converter. A
second-hand Sky+ box off Ebay doesn't cost much more than the JS Technology
converter. All Sky+ boxes have s-video out but the only other digiboxes are most
if not all of the Grundigs & I think the Sony. Neither Sony nor Grundig make
digiboxes any more & the only ones available are older models hence not so fast.
A modern Sky+ box used as a standard digibox is the best solution.
Changing channels on the Pace 3100 Sky+ works really well. It seems that you
can stick the IR bug anywhere on the right hand side of the box & it works
flawlessly. The Panasonic TU-DSB30 that I had previously was very finicky about
placement of the bug.
For over a year there has been a known problem with some of the Hauppauge cards
in that when using the s-video & audio inputs the audio level is far too high &
causes distortion. You need to edit the registry or more simply use the tweak
tool to lower the input volume.
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Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
