Re: [SLUG] Tivo and Saving to Tape

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun Sep 29 2002 - 14:33:14 EDT


On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 01:48:00PM -0400, Andrew Wyatt wrote:

> On Sunday 29 September 2002 01:33 pm, you wrote:
> > Tivo-ers:
> >
> > I record a lot of shows for play later on Tivo, set to medium quality.
> > Occasionally, I want to save something to tape. But the quality is
> > _horrible_ (virtually unwatchable) even on new tapes. I've cleaned my
> > tape heads. Anyone else seen this before, and is this a function of some
> > encoding done by the networks or Tivo, or should I invest in a new VCR?
> >
> > Paul
>
>
> Hmm, wonder if yout TIVO has Macrovision in it.
>

Er... umm, I have no idea. The phenomenon is that I get continuous
flashes of red, green and blue dots all over the image, and the color of
the image changes to black and white behind this while its going on.

Paul



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