Mailing List Archive: PVR-250 + lines and ghosting

PVR-250 + lines and ghosting

Apr 29, 2003, 7:18 PM

Post #1 of 5 (1382 views)

I just installed a PVR-250 and I am getting very slight vertical lines and
slight ghosting. Anyone else using this card experience the same? I tried
the other Phillips tuner types in the tuner module but none seem to get rid
of the problem. I had this problem with my original ATI tuner card, but it
went away when I upgraded to a WinTV 401. Is there anything I can do to get
rid of the lines? Could the card be bad?

Thanks,
Jeff

Re: PVR-250 + lines and ghosting [ In reply to ]

ijr at po

Apr 29, 2003, 8:01 PM

Post #2 of 5 (1365 views)

Permalink

On Tuesday 29 April 2003 10:18 pm, Jeff Burricelli wrote:
> I just installed a PVR-250 and I am getting very slight vertical lines and
> slight ghosting. Anyone else using this card experience the same? I tried
> the other Phillips tuner types in the tuner module but none seem to get rid
> of the problem. I had this problem with my original ATI tuner card, but it
> went away when I upgraded to a WinTV 401. Is there anything I can do to
> get rid of the lines? Could the card be bad?

I'm seeing the same ghosting with my pvr-250, but it seems to come and go.
Could be the decoder, could be the card, I dunno. I think it seems to happen
less when I record at 720x480 (as opposed to 480x480).

Isaac

Re: PVR-250 + lines and ghosting [ In reply to ]

jeff at burstable

Apr 29, 2003, 8:17 PM

Post #3 of 5 (1351 views)

Permalink

Hmm, must be the cards, 720x480 is much better for me as well.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Isaac Richards" <ijr@po.cwru.edu>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 + lines and ghosting

> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 10:18 pm, Jeff Burricelli wrote:
> > I just installed a PVR-250 and I am getting very slight vertical lines
and
> > slight ghosting. Anyone else using this card experience the same? I
tried
> > the other Phillips tuner types in the tuner module but none seem to get
rid
> > of the problem. I had this problem with my original ATI tuner card, but
it
> > went away when I upgraded to a WinTV 401. Is there anything I can do to
> > get rid of the lines? Could the card be bad?
>
> I'm seeing the same ghosting with my pvr-250, but it seems to come and go.
> Could be the decoder, could be the card, I dunno. I think it seems to
happen
> less when I record at 720x480 (as opposed to 480x480).
>
> Isaac
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>

Re: PVR-250 + lines and ghosting [ In reply to ]

dlengel at attbi

Apr 29, 2003, 11:40 PM

Post #4 of 5 (1355 views)

Permalink

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 11:01:22PM -0400, Isaac Richards wrote:
> I'm seeing the same ghosting with my pvr-250, but it seems to come and go.
> Could be the decoder, could be the card, I dunno. I think it seems to happen
> less when I record at 720x480 (as opposed to 480x480).

I'm seeing the ghosting too. I figured it was the old, cheap coax
splitter and cable I was using, but now I'm not so sure. If it turns
out to be the card and isn't correctable, my opinion of it will
greatly diminish and it may wind up getting returned.

David
--
David Engel
dlengel@attbi.com

Re: PVR-250 + lines and ghosting [ In reply to ]

ben at xsusio

May 1, 2003, 6:02 AM

Post #5 of 5 (1357 views)

Permalink

Yep, I see ghosting too.. It's more obvious on some channels than
others. Could this be a hardware or software problem? Maybe we need to
email the ivtv guys and ask them about it. I'll post a message on the
forums / list.

Jeff Burricelli wrote:

>I just installed a PVR-250 and I am getting very slight vertical lines and
>slight ghosting. Anyone else using this card experience the same? I tried
>the other Phillips tuner types in the tuner module but none seem to get rid
>of the problem. I had this problem with my original ATI tuner card, but it
>went away when I upgraded to a WinTV 401. Is there anything I can do to get
>rid of the lines? Could the card be bad?
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>mythtv-users mailing list
>mythtv-users@snowman.net
>http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>