nightwalker
Active Member
I have a whole host of channel modulators. Some broadcast security cameras, some the VCR and DVD outputs and still others do Hauppauge MVP outputs. That being said all the channels are clear and crisp on any TV, be it standard CRT, Plasma or LCD.
In my home office and my wife's I've installed TV cards in the computers trying to get hem to do double duty as a TV. The TV channels are just great, what you'd expect. The channels that are modulated on the other hand are terrible, dark, fuzzy, almost to the point that you have no idea what you're looking at.
I brought in a standard CRT set and put it right next to the computer, using the same video jack, was able to look at the systems side by side. Viewing standard cable channels the picture was equally good on both systems, in fact the computer showed what i thought was a little better picture. Viewing the modulated channels was a different story. Beautiful picture on the TV viewing the modulated channels, on the computer through the TV card, the same fuzzy picture.
There must be something that the computer TV cards don't like about modulated channels that a stand alone TV has no problem with. For the life of me i can't figure out what i could be though.
Has anyone out there also experienced this, and were you able to fix it?
In my home office and my wife's I've installed TV cards in the computers trying to get hem to do double duty as a TV. The TV channels are just great, what you'd expect. The channels that are modulated on the other hand are terrible, dark, fuzzy, almost to the point that you have no idea what you're looking at.
I brought in a standard CRT set and put it right next to the computer, using the same video jack, was able to look at the systems side by side. Viewing standard cable channels the picture was equally good on both systems, in fact the computer showed what i thought was a little better picture. Viewing the modulated channels was a different story. Beautiful picture on the TV viewing the modulated channels, on the computer through the TV card, the same fuzzy picture.
There must be something that the computer TV cards don't like about modulated channels that a stand alone TV has no problem with. For the life of me i can't figure out what i could be though.
Has anyone out there also experienced this, and were you able to fix it?