How to improve TV-OUT Quality for a DVR System?

[formulav8]

I made a DVR for my wife and at the desktop in WinXP and such, the text is pretty darn blurry. I can make it after staring at it. I have tried MANY settings to no avail. The actual TV Tuner display quality is fine. When watching TV and such the picture is not blurry or anything. The interface pause, play buttons and such are fairly blurry along with the other interfaces, desktop, icons, of WinXP.

I've tried settings in NView, WinXP, and such and can't seem to gets things quite the way I want them. Would a different video card make a difference or not?

The video card is a PCI-XPress 6200 16MB Turbo Cache Video card.

The TV Tuner is a: ATI TV Wonder Elite, it uses the new '550 Pro' chipset. Link to the card.

I've changed the resolution from 460x480, 800x600 and 1024x768.

640x480 seems to be better than the others although the icons and such are huge. Still blurier than I would like. I am not expecting LCD or High resolution Monitor quality or nothing, just to be able to see the screen without killing my eyes.

The TV is a 20" Flat Tube, NOT flat panel. I am using the SVideo interface from the Video card to the SVideo to the TV.

MY question is, is it possible to get near VGA monitor quality tv output?? Any details on what can be done??

Please let me know anything



Jason

 

[Matthias99]

640x480 seems to be better than the others although the icons and such are huge. Still blurier than I would like. I am not expecting LCD or High resolution Monitor quality or nothing, just to be able to see the screen without killing my eyes.

S-Video can only carry somewhere around ~600x480 discrete pixels. Pushing the resolution any higher will just make it blurry, since you will be effectively downsampling to ~600x480 during the output stage.

MY question is, is it possible to get near VGA monitor quality tv output?? Any details on what can be done??

Buy an HDTV that can take HD DVI/Component inputs. Then you can run the PC at an HD resolution (720p or 1080i) and get a much nicer picture. A bigger TV will also make higher resolutions *somewhat* more usable, but they will never look "good".

 

[rstrohkirch]

Like stated above, you'll have to buy a TV that can display higher resolutions. Text output on 480i is horrid and will require increased font sizes to read correctly.