Michael McSharry
Active Member
I've dabble a little bit over the past year with the idea of implementing PVR with last generation video equipment. It seems to me that I should be able to record a TV show to a PC and play it back and experience roughly the same quality of playback video as the original.
It also seemed to me that I should be able to view live video on a computer LCD monitor using a DVI interface and get at least as good quality as seeing the video using a vga on a CRT or on a standard analog TV.
My experiences do not bear this out and I've not invested the time to understand the what and why of what I'm seeing.
The toys I've been playing with are:
Windows MCE 2005 with NVTV tuner and Nvidea 5200 VGA/DVI/Svideo,
17" CRT and 19" LCD at 1280x1024,
10 year old Toshiba rear projection TV with Svideo input,
Dish Network SVideo video source
If my objective is simply to implement a PC-based PVR with the intended output to the 10 year old Toshiba TV then what do I need to change to get reasonable results? What if I want to also view it on a PC Monitor?
It also seemed to me that I should be able to view live video on a computer LCD monitor using a DVI interface and get at least as good quality as seeing the video using a vga on a CRT or on a standard analog TV.
My experiences do not bear this out and I've not invested the time to understand the what and why of what I'm seeing.
The toys I've been playing with are:
Windows MCE 2005 with NVTV tuner and Nvidea 5200 VGA/DVI/Svideo,
17" CRT and 19" LCD at 1280x1024,
10 year old Toshiba rear projection TV with Svideo input,
Dish Network SVideo video source
If my objective is simply to implement a PC-based PVR with the intended output to the 10 year old Toshiba TV then what do I need to change to get reasonable results? What if I want to also view it on a PC Monitor?