[mythtv-users] Quality of Aitech Web Cable Plus sucks

Cedar McKay cedarmckay at mac.com
Sun Jul 6 12:45:39 EDT 2003


for power are you plugged into the wall or the back of the computer 
with the adaptor? My flicker problems disappeared when I plugged it 
into the wall. As for your other problems (overscan, offset, waviness) 
I don't see those problems. Maybe you got a bad one?


Cedar


On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 10:30  AM, Keat Lim wrote:

> People have suggested using scan converters for the best results and
> here's my review...
>
> I have been using it for a month now and frankly the quality isn't that
> great. For the 70 dollars I spent on it I should have just spent on a 
> low
> Geforce card with tv-out. First of all the converter underscans by a 
> tiny
> bit leaving a warped wavy edge on the sides. Second there is no 
> overscan
> feature for that problem. Third it doesn't center right so I always 
> have
> to crawl under my entertainment center and push the stupid buttons to
> center it. Fourth there is no memory settings in it so you have to do 
> it
> when you reboot the PC. Fifth the quality of the output is sub par, 
> lines
> are not well defined (you get dotted like lines in MythTV menus), 
> flicker
> is not horrible but not great either. I see some waves when there is a
> plain blue background. I wouldn't even consider this any where near the
> quality out of the cheapest Apex DVD player you can get in the market. 
> My
> main pc's tvout (nforce2 geforce4mx) is a lot better with much better
> flicker control and overscan/underscan. Of course I am configuring the
> geforce4mx through XP and I'm not sure how it does under the great 
> Linux
> operating system .
>
> Unless someone can tell me otherwise where I'm going wrong (which will 
> be
> greatly appreciated) my review of the said device is rather 
> unfavourable.
>
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