Thanks for the insight, David and Stanley. I have an amplifier I can try. I'll post the results of that test when I have them.
Regards, -Mike Ellis On Sep 22, 2007, at 5:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:43:19 +0200 > From: David Arendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] Noisy image upper channels on PVR500 > To: User discussion about IVTV <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I would try using an antenna amplifier, as the inputs of some cards > are > not very sensitive. > > ----------------------------- > > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:25:56 +0200 (CEST) > From: "Stanley Merkx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ivtv-users] Noisy image upper channels on PVR500 > To: "User discussion about IVTV" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > > Hi, > > I can confirm that adding an antenna amplifier (even for a cable > setup) > can dramatically increase the quality of certain channels. > > BBC1 and BBC2 were pretty awful on my setup until I added an > amplifier; > before that I was pretty convinced that the noise I was seeing was > produced by my MythTV box itself: only 3 or 4 channels had a fairly > repetitive pattern of visible distortion, even CPU activity was > somehow > visible in the noise pattern... > > After adding an antenna amplifier image quality increased beyond > expectation.... > > (of course no guarantee that this will happen for you too. Just my > experience that might help you....) > > Regards, > Stanley. ========================= Michael F. Ellis President Ellis Softworks Inc. ---------- Phone: (941) 713-0361 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.ellissoftworks.com _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
