- Oct 22, 2000
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Just got a new AIW 8500DV. I connected cable TV to the AIW's coax cable input to display TV on my 17" monitor, with the intent of recording TV to the hard drive TiVO style. The picture on the monitor is not nearly as good as when I play the same channel on the 24" TV that I have sitting in the same room.
When I installed this, I split the cable coming out of the wall with a 2-way splitter and ran one cable to the TV and one to the AIW. To be sure the problem wasn't just a bad cable between the splitter and the AIW, I swapped the cables going to the TV and the AIW but the picture on the monitor is still poor compared to the TV. It looks similar to a low quality VCD. The cable service is analog and the picture on the TV looks fine, although not of DVD quality of course.
Any suggestions on what to try to improve the cable TV picture on the monitor?
EDIT: I should add, that when I say it looks bad, I have the ATI TV player in full screen mode (I'm running the desktop at 1024x768 32 bit 85hz refresh under Win XP Pro). If I switch the TV player to a 640x480 window, it looks better though, still not as good as the TV.
When I installed this, I split the cable coming out of the wall with a 2-way splitter and ran one cable to the TV and one to the AIW. To be sure the problem wasn't just a bad cable between the splitter and the AIW, I swapped the cables going to the TV and the AIW but the picture on the monitor is still poor compared to the TV. It looks similar to a low quality VCD. The cable service is analog and the picture on the TV looks fine, although not of DVD quality of course.
Any suggestions on what to try to improve the cable TV picture on the monitor?
EDIT: I should add, that when I say it looks bad, I have the ATI TV player in full screen mode (I'm running the desktop at 1024x768 32 bit 85hz refresh under Win XP Pro). If I switch the TV player to a 640x480 window, it looks better though, still not as good as the TV.