capturing poor tv signal

[almostaborted]

i took a snapshot of a capture i did tonight and you can see there are serious image shifting going on...i know for a fact that this is related to my cable signal...so what can i do to resolve this shifting problem...is there a filter i can use or am i forced to deal with this?

[Will Hay]

I had something similar to this which I solved with a signal booster.
Will

[Craig Tucker]

Yes, you really need to sort your signal out going to the capture card. Filtering is not going to help you here. Does it look like that when you watch on your TV, if not how have you split the signal. I would reccomend splitting the signal via a booster like will suggested

[almostaborted]

yes it looks like that on the tv...the weird thing is, when i capture using my tv card in my computer the image shift is little to nothing

on the cable wire coming into my house it is split between my tv and my computer

i will look for signal booster then...are they expensive?

[fmctm1sw]

I believe the technical term for that is "ghosting." You may be able to do a google search and find more help too....

[Craig Tucker]

yes it looks like that on the tv...the weird thing is, when i capture using my tv card in my computer the image shift is little to nothing

on the cable wire coming into my house it is split between my tv and my computer

i will look for signal booster then...are they expensive?

They are not that expensive, I bought a 10 way splitter/booster for my set up for about £40. If you only want 2 way they are much cheaper around £10-£15. Is the signal poor if you dont split it, ie just run it straight into your TV set. If so then you should contact your cable company to complain.

[almostaborted]

yes unfortunately it is poor even if i don't split it...

[Craig Tucker]

And you are paying for this via a cable service, or is this from an ariel/antenna

[almostaborted]

i am paying for cable

but this is off fox, which is a free channel and also upn are the only channels that give me problems....the real cable channels like mtv, cnn, bravo and what not come in perfectly

in fact i find that if i unplug the cable wire going into the tv i get better fox reception but there are still artifacts like diagonal lines across the screen....

by the way i live in san francisco where there are a lot of apartment buildings that could be the reason for poor reception

[almostaborted]

i got a signal booster for 25 bucks at fry's and it works nicely...thanks a lot!!

[Craig Tucker]

Excellent

[DrWafer]

signal booster???

the problem here is clearly incorrect line termination,the wires are not terminated correctly and there are reflected waves ,with other words your RF cables are a mess.
amplifier will make things worse.

fix your cables,splitters etc..

[Craig Tucker]

i got a signal booster for 25 bucks at fry's and it works nicely...thanks a lot!!