Posted by kaboom on 10/20/05 00:59

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:41:49 -0500, "GaryP" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>"kaboom" <kaboomicus@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:n7odl118uhu5fb10bkd4nbne869evhmjqm@4ax.com...
>> For something completely different: Would your recorder, by any
>> chance, be directly hooked up to a digital box? If so, how does the
>> recorded material look? My e85 records a horrible picture off of it
>> and I can't figure out why.
>
>No, I'm using analog cable only, with no cable converter box. Very good
>signal, and excellent recorded picture (indistinguishable from watching live
>when using the best XP high quality mode). Do you have other options for
>connecting your digital box to the recorder (RF, RCA A/V, S-VIDEO)?

**Off analog cable, the Panny is fantastic. When I record off of the
d-box, it's pixely/smeary within vast expanses of color. Like
close-ups of faces or a field of green, you get this really weird
effect, like a smeary pixelization but it wouldn't smear outside of
the face, for instance. Perhaps it's an encoding problem with digital.

The digital box only has the options of a co-ax hookup or an RCA
hookup. The co-ax, for some reason, manages to look a tad better than
the RCA. If it's an encoding problem, an upgraded connection might not
help but I haven't heard of others having this problem. I admit that I
haven't really researched it either. Maybe I oughta get on it :) I'm
bummed, I thought it would look fantastic off of the digital box.

kaboomie

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