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Arachnotron · 30th March 2004, 11:21

I was not happy with my TV card at first as well. (Terratec Cinergy 400) since my TV looked ok but the card was terrible. I found out in my case the cause was the weak antenna signal. When I employed an RF amplifier, the picture quality of the card became even better then on my TV. Apparently the tuner in my TV was better able to deal with a weak antenna signal.

The only problem with that is that it does not explain why your VCR looks crap too.

By the way: you do know that VHS will always look worse then TV, since VHS has a much lower bandwidth then TV, which means much less detail. A VHS cape will look blurrier and noisier then a good TV cap.

You could also try a DVD player for a clean and high resolution signal.

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Arachnotron Alias fragger Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 863	I was not happy with my TV card at first as well. (Terratec Cinergy 400) since my TV looked ok but the card was terrible. I found out in my case the cause was the weak antenna signal. When I employed an RF amplifier, the picture quality of the card became even better then on my TV. Apparently the tuner in my TV was better able to deal with a weak antenna signal. The only problem with that is that it does not explain why your VCR looks crap too. By the way: you do know that VHS will always look worse then TV, since VHS has a much lower bandwidth then TV, which means much less detail. A VHS cape will look blurrier and noisier then a good TV cap. You could also try a DVD player for a clean and high resolution signal.