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Originally Posted by bleeman
Now having said mine was perfect, today I hooked up the S-video input to the S-video output on my DirecTV TIVO unit and I'm disappointed in the picture quality. It looks all "smeary" (Don't you just love those big technical terms  ) like a video does when you do something like Full Screen in WMP with something set for 240x320 or 640x480. |
What you're seeing is the result of two issues:
1) You're taking (I assume) a standard definition cable signal at 720 x 480 and pumping it out to a monitor that is natively 1920 x 1200. That means it has to scale the image upward, exactly like Windows Media Player does. Sometimes this looks "ok" (a DVD for instance), but over S-Video and relying only on the scaler in the monitor...not so much, as you're seeing. There's really nothing you can do about this.
2) S-Video is a poor way to transmit signals. Does your TIVO unit have component (red, blue, green)? Try that instead.