How to get THE BEST picture from a STB? (1 Viewer)

[Spragleknas]

I know the "quality" list; 1. DVI 2.RGB 3.S-video 4. Compositt.

Is there no way to connect a STB to the computer using (at least) SCART? Suprised that you arre "doomed" to have a poorer image quality when using STB, which are superior to analog etc. when directly connected to a TV.

The spesific STB I'm refering to has SCART, compositt and S-video out (one of the few that does?).

 

[natrlhy]

I've been wondering this, too...

It seems like TV capture cards are limited to S-Video primarily. I was wondering if since I have a DVI port on the back of my STB (DirecTV) could I split this and send one signal to my plasma and the other to a free DVI port on the video card and still be able to do hardware encoding somehow?

For now I just switch my input on my plasma between my TiVo unit (going bye-bye this weekend finally!) and the DVI input from my STB to my plasma...

 

[Spragleknas]

Anybody seen this?
SweetSpot

RGB-in and everything!!!

#
Features & Specifications
Up to 8 video connections!
# 1 x 26-Pin Parallel Digital Interface (PDI)
# 1 x RGB (RGBS, RGsB)
# 1 x Component (Y,Pb,Pr)
# 2 x S-Video
# 7 x Composite
# Optional Dual SDI input expansion module now available to allow connection to external SDI sources

looking good!

D-MAN (*bowing*): Think you can add support for this?

 

[Spragleknas]

Damn... D-MAN informed that it is not a HW-card.


Incredible that a way of getting a decent/good quality picture from a STB is absent.