TV Tuner card...grainy quality

[Vigilante]

Hi,
I've had a tv tuner card for a while now, and I've mainly used it for my SNES. I just recently hooked up my xbox to it and its all grainy..like -16AA. I can still play, I'd just like to know if theres a way to inproce the quality. I tried to take an SS butit didnt work

The car is an ATI TV Tuner LE.
thx

 

[staddydaddy]

grainey or edgey?

Grainy would be appear like there was the white and black stuf (that comes on your tv when you're ona chanlle that has no signal) over the regular picture

Edgy would look like, render objects have edgies.

 

[The Dark Elf]

might be interfearance, or possible using the wrong cable, or maybe the TV isn't tuned in just right for the Xbox.

 

[FictiousWill]

It could be the resolution of the xbox looking wierd on a monitor. Xbox resolution is very low and blurred out and stretched on a monitor it will look grainy/blurry. Same with most any console.

 

[Vigilante]

It could be the resolution of the xbox looking wierd on a monitor. Xbox resolution is very low and blurred out and stretched on a monitor it will look grainy/blurry. Same with most any console.

Yeah..I think thats it, but why in the world would it look worse on a monitor than a tv? monitors have a higer resoultion than a tv... It's more edgy. I guess it was ok with the Snes i had on it for obvious reasons

 

[DreamThrall]

monitors have a higer resoultion than a tv...

That's your answer right there.

For example, if you took a JPEG picture that was 640 pixels x 480 pixels (your TV) and blew it up to 1280 pixels x 1024 pixels (your monitor), it would look crappy, because the computer has to insert all those extra pixels.

This is the same kind of idea with your XBox. TVs have a very low resolution (320x240 for older tvs, higher for newer HDTVs), so if the edges are very hard, you don't notice that much since the res is so low and (usually) you're sitting so far back from the screen. On a computer monitor, you will notice things much more easily since you're a lot closer to the screen and the resolution is 4x higher.