AIW TV quality suck?

[xtknight]

Take a screenshot of it. Saying it's crap is totally subjective, so we have no clue what you mean.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: Whitedog
It looks just fine on my TV. Like a normal TV picture...

Unless you have an HDTV, your TV is an interlaced display that displays 480 lines of picture (NTSC) just like the source signal. This signal was specifically engineered to be used on CRT television devices because of interlacing.

I can put the two side by side... and the computer looks like I'm watching a VHS.

Your computer's monitor is a progressive display and needs deinterlacing algorithms to work. It is not native like a standard TV.

Look at a TV Signal through an NextVision N6 on your PC. You'll eat your own words.

It'll probably look the same unless your card's TV quality is exceptionally horrible due to bad software. If the NextVision uses postprocessing then it's extrapolating data. It's not 'better' quality. You can postprocess with TV capture programs as well. The devices both use NTSC TV tuners underneath, and probably very similar ones.

A high quality monitor is not going to make a picture look "worse". I watch DVD's through my computer all the time. DVD picture quality is amazing, and it is just barely better than NTSC res.

Barely better? DVDs are a digital MPEG-2 stream. That already eliminates the noise introduced by any analog to digital conversions. Your analog-tuned cable will always have some kind of noise however you look at it. Technologies like Reed-Solomon ensure the digital signal is perfectly intact via checksums and redundancy.

 

[palindrome]

Well, seeing as how the 6.x drivers changed compatibility with the included software on the original drivers cd (such as guidestar+, etc), I wouldn't be surprised at all if you see a bad picture. Right now, I cannot get sound from the TV tuner software. The device works properly and the sound works when I used a different player, but the latest MMC software + drivers don't play a word. I would buy the TV Tuner and video card seperate, that is what I'm going to do from now on. That way, if anything goes wrong, I can eliminate things easier and not have such difficulty uninstalling and reinstalling.