Comments on: Media Center Gets Slashdotted

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:41:00 +0000

I use DirecTV feeds in for both my TiVo and Media Center. Both my old non HDTV standalone TiVo and my current DirecTV integrated TiVo look better than my Media Center picture. In the past I’ve been told that TiVo has better compression quality but I’m not sure exactly why the image quality on TiVo seems better to me.

By: Brian Zellinger

Brian Zellinger — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:20:00 +0000

I don’t think the PQ is that bad. I think DirecTV is bad. Imagine full bandwidth from DTV, then hook that up to your Media Center.

By: jimh3

jimh3 — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 07:34:00 +0000

For those of us not lucky enough to have HD TV or just content with analog TV I think many would be impressed with the quality you get to your TV using the extenders. I find the pic often looks better than straight analog cable in to the TV. Plus it does a nice job with the AUDIO, as the extender has optical out, which sounds great when going into my receiver. I do have problems with stuttering and such on the actual PC, but I never really watch TV from there. As xbox360s start popping up I think everyones experiences with video/audio quality will become more positive. Just seems to me that extenders are the way to go. Mines been great.