TiVo Series2 Digital Video Recorder (*TiVo Service Fee Not Included)
Picture Quality
I have seen that a few people are concerned with picture degradation when playing your TV through the DVR. My recommendation is to make sure you connect the video using the s-video port rather than using the standard rca composite cables. Series 2 certainly has an S-video port. I have heard that series 1 does not. I don't know for sure. When I first got Directv I connected it to the tv with the compsite cables and the picture was awful. I was disappointed because I expected nice clarity through the digital sattelite. I bought an s-video cable and connected that way. That certainly did the trick. The picture improved considerably. I connected the Tivo I recently bought the same way and have experienced no degradation. <br />When I first swapped out the composite for s-video on the sattelite receiver I was at first still a little disappointed. I realized what happened was I was used to watching DVDs on a prog scan player and a HDTV. Of course there is no way normal boradcast tv is ever gonna look that nice. However I want to reiterate that using the S-video cable makes a world of difference.