Ok I reluctantly went with Charter because of no commitment and the dbs receivers will be obsolete with mpeg4. Still have voom recever hooked up so I could compare pq. On analog sd channels picture is ok. On digital sd channels picture is far superior to vooms sd channels. On Hd channels Voom is sharper although not by a lot. Love the DVR. I can get hooked on it.
First impressions with Charter
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Which DVR unit did you get? I've had mine all of two days and I'm seriously concidering taking it back and going back to analog cable.
Shawn95GT said:
I have the SA 8300HD DVR. No problems so far. I like the pass through feature for display outputs. On Sd channels I have it set to 480p. Switches tv automatically from 480p on sd channels to 1080i on HD channels. Almost like native on Voom but my tv won't display 720p so I couldn't use native on Voom. On the SA box you can set it to only display signals your tv can receive so I shut off 720p and 480i on it. 480p seems clearer than 480i for sd channels so that is why I turned off 480i even though tv recognizes it. You can set it to upconvert sd channels to 720 or 1080 but I think picture is better this way although it is probably personal preference.
pmalve said:
This is interesting. What Charter market are you in?
I'm also reluctantly going back to Charter in Upstate SC after eight months with Voom. My install is next week.
I'm hoping that they have improved in areas that were the reasons I left them in the first place: spotty picture quality, On-Demand service that didn't work most of the time, lousy (and frequently belligerent!) customer service, and sparse HD offerings. The latter is improving (they've added ABC, UHD and TNT-HD since I quit last year), but I am nervous about the other issues.
At least I won't be on a contract so if worst comes to worst I can jump to another provider.
CDH.
Where do you set that up? I tried like heck to set my SD to be in 480p and HD in 1080i but no matter what I set 'Picture format' to, it's always 1080i coming from the component output - no matter what channel I'm on.pmalve said:
Shawn95GT said:
Turn Tv on and cable box off. Press guide and info keys at the same time. This brings up the HDTV Setup Wizard screen. Press A on the remote. Choose advanced setup option. Follow on screen instructions. I only left 480p and 1080i active. Turned off all others. To select pass through mode press settings twice. Move up or down to highlight Set picture format. Select pass through. press accept. Front of box should say auto. Press exit to finish. If you need more help go to Scientific Atlanta website and join explorers club. It has detailed manuals that I found much better than Charter instructions.
The first 100 is analog, the Moxi tries to upconvert it to the set resolution but it looks horrible. The 3.2 update is supposed to allow native pass through, I cant wait.
