Color Bleed on Hauppage WinTV-PVR 150

[TheBladeRoden]

Yes well, I'm trying to feed my extended basic cable into this TV Tuner but the end result is a big color bleed which doesn't show up on my normal TV. It looks a little better with the composite video, but then I don't have the controllability. Looks the same on WinTV and BeyondTV, and the tweak tools I've tried had no effect. Any other ideas?






Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2
Processor: Athlon 64 3000+
Graphics Card: eVGA NVidia 6800 GT 256MB
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Gamer
Memory: 1GB Corsair DDR PC-3200 VS512MB400C3
Motherboard: Chaintech VNF3-250
Direct X: 9.0c
Hard drive: Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 160GB + Western Digital WD800 80GB
TV Tuner: Hauppage WinTV-PVR 150
Power Supply: Thermaltake Purepower 420W
Speakers: Creative Inspire P5800 5.1
Monitor: Gateway EV700

[TheBladeRoden]

c'mon lads, I'm dying over here!

[jagabo]

We're still waiting for the images to download! (ImageShack is really slow right now.)

It looks like one of the chroma channels isn't lined up properly. I have a PVR-250 and have never seen it do anything like that. I've heard of a few problems with the PVR-150 but again, nothing like that.

On the off chance that it is a display problem, capture a bit and then look at the MPEG file with VirtualDubMod or VirtualDubMPEG2. Those have their own MPEG2 decoders and don't use video overlay to display the image. If you see the problem there you know it's a problem with the the PVR-150 or the source. And if it occurs on all channels it's not the source.

[mvdude]

I'm getting the same thing with my PVR-150. The cable feed is going directly to capture card--nothing in between except a splitter. It happens on all channels. Shows up regardless of the mpeg2 decoder. I've tried dialing down the saturation, but the problem is so severe that it makes little improvement.

I've heard of chroma shift being introduced into the signal because of vhs recording, or composite connections, or bad s-video connections--none of this applies here. Can chroma shift be introduced because of bad cable or bad splitters? (I don't believe so, but please educate me if I'm wrong.) Also, I don't see this on any other tv tuners in my house.

Should I consider returning the card while I can, or is there a tweak for this?

Samples:

http://images23.fotki.com/v866/photos/1/10355/5049503/choma1-vi.jpg

http://images4.fotki.com/v50/photos/1/10355/5049503/choma2-vi.jpg

http://images23.fotki.com/v866/photos/1/10355/5049503/choma3-vi.jpg

http://images114.fotki.com/v879/photos/1/10355/5049503/choma4-vi.jpg

http://images6.fotki.com/v883/photos/1/10355/5049503/choma5x-vi.jpg