TV wonder quality poor using coaxil?

[bananaboy]

If I plug my satellite cable (regular coaxil) into my tv it is a perfect image but when I try the same cable into my tv wonder its a touch fuzzier and has random black spots and other distortion. I thought at first it could be my cable ends but wondering if its in the software because of the perfect image on my tv..
any suggestions?
Also it is not the mono only tv wonder and it only lets me select mono in the software..?
It has perfect image quality when I plug the nintendo into the catv plug (slightly fuzzier than using the composites but acceptable).

 

[Squibby]

I doubt it's the software...I have a TV Wonder and use the coaxal input for an antena, and it looks perfect...well...at least on those channels I can get good reception on...

Oh...do you have the latest version of the TV player (2.0)?

Squibby

 

[bananaboy]

ya i am but mine says its ver 7.1. sometimes i can get good image especially on HBO.
i think it could be my ends?

 

[rbV5]

Sounds like a poor signal to me, try another cable.

 

[Noriaki]

I believe the TV-Wonder is more suseptable to interferance than a regular TV (not sure why but I've heard this a few times), but mine has perfectly fine quality on Coaxial.

 

[vailr]

The TV Wonder seems to require higher signal strength, to produce the same quality picture, as compared with a regular television such as a Sony. Might consider a coax line amplifier; splitting the signal also degrades the signal strength.
The July 5, 2001 MMC 7.1 supercedes the 2.0 TV Wonder software.

 

[SaidMohammed]

ATI's TV software is absolute crap

 

[rbV5]

"ATI's TV software is absolute crap"

It actually works pretty good on my system, but what would be a good noncrap tv software solution that allows the same features such as stereo sound, live TV pause and mpeg-2 capture?

 

[bigbootydaddy]

<< &quot;ATI's TV software is absolute crap&quot;

It actually works pretty good on my system, but what would be a good noncrap tv software solution that allows the same features such as stereo sound, live TV pause and mpeg-2 capture? >>



no, its crap, my system is stable, dual p3, and ati is now the only program that crashes...dtv works well and maes the picture much nicer, but that is software done, and when you exit out the sound stays...

i should have never sold my hauppauge.

ati booty

 

[RC7]

Use composite or s-video connections if you have them. The picture will be much better than coax.

 

[bananaboy]

im running my signal from a Houston Tracker system 70, used a 900mhz 3 way splitter about 30 ft from the reciever. i would use a amplifier but wouldnt that only increase distortion as well? its fairly good on some stations especially HBO. I could run composites though, I've noticed a huge difference between my N64 being ran through the composites rather than the catv.

 

[Erasmus-X]

Your TV Wonder card should have a composite and perhaps an s-video input as well as coax. Using one of those will yield a much better picture. Most satellite receivers can output both types of signals.

Coax = WORSE; all of the picture, sound and timing information are sent over one shielded copper wire.

Composite = BETTER; a composite connection separates the video signal from the audio signals. Yields better picture and sound quality.

s-video = BEST; s-video splits the chrominance (C) and luminance (Y) bands of the video signal to yield a sharper picture with better colors, less dot crawl, and a more stable picture. Use this video connection type if possible. You can pick up a good s-video cable for around $15-20 at a Radio Shack or electronics store.

 

[rbV5]

Move your computer, and hook up the line before the splitter to see. The composite-in with the N64 will look better because the N64 is the video source and the composite signal is of higher quality than the coax, but using the composite-in for the TV probably won't(unless of course you Sat Reciever has s-video or composite video-out), you'll have to use an external tuner, which likely will be fed with the same signal (coax) as the TV card anyway and you'll simply be introducing another connection to degrade the signal even further(My AIW loks better using the coax-in and internal tuner than using my VCR tuner and the composite-in. Using the amplifier will likely improve the signal if its degraded because of signal strength, but perhaps introduce artifacts if thats not the issue.

My MMC 7.1 has been very stable, maybe the differece between the AIW Radeon and the TV Wonder software.