On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 11:06 -0400, Folashade Adeyosoye wrote: > > * Am able to bring up liveTV, BUT (the other 5%) is its coming > up as snow, not totally black and white snow, but colored.
Are you splitting the cable signal at any point? Even outside the house? If so, you might want to check for signal strength issues by removing (at least temporarily) any splitters from the line. If that improves things, you probably have a signal strength issue, in which case a signal amplifier might help. There are also other threads on signal strength issues involving how to use crimped connections instead of screw-on to improve signal strength; if you are handy with tools (I'm not), this could also help. If you use a signal amp, put it as far "upstream" as possible, before any splitters, although it's not realistic to have one outside, so you may not be able to have it before EVERY splitter. I've got a three-way splitter outside the house, and inside, my computer is at the end of a 25-ft cable run (I have no cable outlet in the computer room so I had to run a cable through the wall from the living room). A signal amplifier helped get my PVR-500 to work well, but I was never able to put a splitter at the end of that 25-ft run without serious signal degradation. The HD-3000 with V4L drivers was much more sensitive to this than the PVR-500 was, which is why I suggest this as a possibility. In particular in my case, the low numbered channels looked much worse than higher numbered channels. But both cards worked reasonably well with the signal amplifier when I removed the splitter and connected only one of them, but without the splitter, I couldn't use both cards, so I too have removed my HD-3000 to use another day for OTA HD when I actually have an HD capable TV. I too bought mine because I feared they would soon be banned. --Greg
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