This is a great forum. Helped me a lot so far, but I'm still left with a question.
I just bought a Pyro A/V link, and using a cheap video (which has only the one video and two audio outputs) the capture quality on my PC was crap: really saturated colors and jumpy frames. I put the video straight into a TV, and it was fine: whenever I put the signal through the Pyro box it degraded it to this bad level, even when I left out the PC and went straight to the TV from the Pyro box.
Thing is, I just tried playing my video via Tivo, using the same three inputs into the Tivo, then taking the SVideo output from Tivo to the Pyro box, and the signal is just wonderful.

My question is in two parts:

1. Why is this? I would like to understand exactly what the SVideo is doing to the signal.

2. Any ideas as to how I can avoid using Tivo and improve the signal directly from the video to the box, as I will be wanting to record Pal soon, and not sure how I will do this with my current setup.
I am wondering why I have no setup options on the Pyro box: is it always done in the software side of things? If this is the case, and even without using a PC your signal is crap, what options do you have?

Thanks in advance for any help.

H.