Has anyone tried this tweak? If so, what are your thoughts?

http://www.realsoftwaredevelopment.com/2007/03/the_best_window.html

I think I did it about a year ago and noticed improvement in recorded TV, especially the faces of people (less bluring).

Danno100:

"less blurring"  Was this with HD recordings?  I have not made the edit, but can't imagine the picture being any better in my current setup.   Maybe I'll give it a shot over the weekend.

For those that have done it; did you notice any drastic increase in size of recordings?

 

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Dell XPS420, 2.4GHz Quad Core
3GB 800MHz RAM, 2 x 500GB HD
Dual ATI DCT
HD Homerun
......all feeding directly to a Panasonic 50" Plasma

HD should not be affected... that is recorded directly from the stream and is not encoded in any way.

Analog, on the other hand should see the improvement as described, but based on the "tweak" I'd think it's for live TV only. Changing the profiles for recording quality (good, better, best) would more likely improve the scheduled recording, but I'm only speculating on that -- I'm not aware of the keys to change.

That being said, I'd expect the buffer file size to increase if that value is increased.

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Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP1
GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (65W)
500GB SATA HDD; 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800 SDRAM
nMEDIAPC HTPC 500BAR
Samsung 20X DVD±R
HD HomeRun; Lumanate Angel Dual Tuner
Linksys DMA2100; WRT600N Router

I tried it last night, and didn't really notice any big change, although my current picture is pretty solid.  Maybe I just didn't notice due to being satisfied with my current picture quality.

 

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System Specs:
Pentium 4 Processor 3.06GHz
2 GB RAM
GForce 8500 GT 512Mb
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800
Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
40 inch Zenith DVI
Vista System Rating 4.5

This tweek has been around for a couple years... it does improve anolog but does nothing to digital or HD (of course).  I think its good, but not the best... heck I hardly watch anolog anymore at all.  Buy a HD Homerun, it rocks.