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I've got a 4 year old LG STB and a 1 week old TivoHD. I recorded (OTA) the football game last night on both and the Tivo seemed to have worse picture quatlity on my 100" screen. Still pictures looked the same. However, when panning, when there was a lot of fast action, or when the station used its animated logo after a replay, the picture quality went down hill. What I was seeing I can only describe as a digital look. I was seeing pixilation and a lack of detail.
The LG STB would also look worse during the same scenes, but it did not look as bad as the Tivo. In the TivoHD's favor, the LG reacts much worse to what I call digital hiccups. The hiccups result from the momentary loss of signal, and the LG STB seems to get one or two of them an hour. When this happens, the LG STB freaks out - pausing, then showing a broken up picture, then recovering. The Tivo showed the same sequence without any indication of a loss of signal.
So, has anybody compared the picture quality of the TivoHD to the original Series 3? I'll get the original Series 3 in a heart beat if has better PQ. The PQ of the TivoHD is almost enough for me to consider returning it. The TivoHd does so many other things so well, that I'd hate to give it up.
I've got a 4 year old LG STB and a 1 week old TivoHD. I recorded (OTA) the football game last night on both and the Tivo seemed to have worse picture quatlity on my 100" screen. Still pictures looked the same. However, when panning, when there was a lot of fast action, or when the station used its animated logo after a replay, the picture quality went down hill. What I was seeing I can only describe as a digital look. I was seeing pixilation and a lack of detail.
The LG STB would also look worse during the same scenes, but it did not look as bad as the Tivo. In the TivoHD's favor, the LG reacts much worse to what I call digital hiccups. The hiccups result from the momentary loss of signal, and the LG STB seems to get one or two of them an hour. When this happens, the LG STB freaks out - pausing, then showing a broken up picture, then recovering. The Tivo showed the same sequence without any indication of a loss of signal.
So, has anybody compared the picture quality of the TivoHD to the original Series 3? I'll get the original Series 3 in a heart beat if has better PQ. The PQ of the TivoHD is almost enough for me to consider returning it. The TivoHd does so many other things so well, that I'd hate to give it up.