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THE PRO WILL NOT IMPROVE THE QUALITY ONE BIT... UNLESS YOU CONNECT IT TO AN HD SOURCE VIA THE HD CONNECT CABLE
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| I HAVE THE AV,WHEN I WATCH FULLSCREEN ON MY COMPUTOR THE PICTURE QUALITY IS POOR.IF I GET THE PRO WILL THAT IMPROVE EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT CONNECTED TO A HIGH DEFINATION RECIEVER.OR DO I NEED THE HD RECIEVER AND THE HD LINK. DOES ANYONE HAVE THE COMPLETE HD HOOK-UP AND IF SO HOW IS YOUR FULLSCREEN PICTURE QUALITY. |
May 17, 2007 10:11 PM
May 17, 2007 10:40 PM
What is your upload speed at the location of the slingbox and what kind of streaming speeds are you getting??
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May 17, 2007 11:23 PM
Also, how large are you trying to blow it up. NTSC video is only 640 x 480. Most computer monitors these days are much higher than that. You will get distortion when you stretch the image to fit your monitor. And if your streaming speed isn't all that great, it will be worse still...
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May 18, 2007 4:49 AM
When you switch to full screen, treat your screen as the equivilent sized TV and move back a bit - 3 to 6 times its width. If you're as close as you'd usually be for computer use, it will look pretty awful (as does a TV when you get too close!)
May 19, 2007 5:52 AM
If this is a remote computer, the picture quality is totally dependant on your upload speed. The higher the bandwidth, the better the picture. The slinbox(s) are designed to utilize up to 768KB upload for best quality, however 512 looks pretty good. Conversly anything lower does just that--->lower the quality of the picture that is reproduced.
Personally, I wouldn't suggest watching it if your source upload speed (where the slingbox is located) is below 384KB...
May 20, 2007 6:14 AM
Is 768KB the max speed (for remote viewing)? Will a 1700KB upload not give a better picture quality than 768KB?
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Lars
May 20, 2007 12:11 PM
| Is 768KB the max speed (for remote viewing)? Will a 1700KB upload not give a better picture quality than 768KB?
best regards Lars | ||
The player recognizes and utilizes upto 768KB for upload and best picture quality throughput for remote viewing. Anything above that is just gravy and doesn't add to the quality of pic....
May 20, 2007 12:21 PM
Well that kinda sucks :-) Is there any way to get arround this problem (and I think that it is a problem)?
May 20, 2007 2:08 PM
Ampro said:Well that kinda sucks :-) Is there any way to get arround this problem (and I think that it is a problem)?
You can create your own VPN, using Hamachi or similar software (I use iPig)...
This will allow you view remotely, with what appears to be a LAN connection to the Slingbox, allowing it to fully utilize your bandwidth.
My upstream bandwidth is limited to 512K, so this is of no benefit to me, but if you have nearly 2mbps, you should give it a try.
May 20, 2007 7:16 PM
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Is 768KB the max speed (for remote viewing)? Will a 1700KB upload not give a better picture quality than 768KB?
best regards
Lars
The player recognizes and utilizes upto 768KB for upload and best picture quality throughput for remote viewing. Anything above that is just gravy and doesn't add to the quality of pic....
Where did this info come from? I've never heard that before. If you manually set it faster and set higher quality you don't get any better??
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May 21, 2007 2:20 AM
If you want to set up a VPN connection between the Slingbox and the remote computer, does the Slingbox have to be connected to a local computer, or can you make a VPN connection directly between a Slingbox and a remote computer?
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Lars
May 21, 2007 2:58 AM
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=49750&cl=2772180&ch=61492&src=news
I was wondering if this is the picture quality I will see when streaming the slingbox at the different speeds offered on the top of the screen in the link I posted under video quality...
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May 26, 2007 7:23 PM
The player recognizes and utilizes upto 768KB for upload and best picture quality throughput for remote viewing. Anything above that is just gravy and doesn't add to the quality of pic....
That's not my understanding. The faster the connection, the better the quality. Resolution will remain 320x240 on remote connections, unless you manually change it to 640x480 - but you want a connection of 2.5Mbps or so to handle that. Anything slower, stick with 320x240 or it'll suffer.
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May 26, 2007 10:11 PM
I've tried several slingbox pro's remotely using the same HR20 DTV HD PVR and the HD connect cable.
On my home system I upload at 512kbps, on my work connection it's 768kbps, and a friend with the same setup has fios with a 5MBps upload rate.
You can see a differance from 512 to 768, but none from 768kbps to the 5MB connection.
Again there are no variables in this test other then the obvios ISP differance in upload speed.
All setups consist of the following:
slingbox pro
hd connect cable
DirecTV HR20
PS: I tested each setup at the default connection res of 320x240 all the way up to 640x480 for direct comparisons on each.
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May 27, 2007 12:17 AM
But what was the *slowest* link on the tests? If you're testing from work and you have a 768Kbps downlink limit, the uplink speed of 5Mbps doesn't matter. If you turn on statistics in the player, what is the real speed during testing?
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