How to get rid of ghosting/noise?

[MikeS]

Hey, any idea what causes this? Also, why does it look checkered when you zoom in, do all tv tuner cards to this?

[vhelp]

Here's what I think your issues might be

The Ghosting is most likely a part of the source. That's ben my
experience too. I think it's everybodys NTSC/PAL. There's nothing
you can do about that - except for filtering as much out of it as
you can, if there is a filter for just this thing.

The Checker Box (in those red areas) might be due to your s-video wire
quality, and/or tight or loose fit on connectors. Every area of a
given conntion/connector should be clean too. Well, that would help.
.
The other cause could be the station airing the source, that it could
be the fault (most likely) and only your S-Video is capturing it because
it is not performing a Comb Filter (much like Composite does, in a way)
.
Using composite connection might cure this, but remember above, that it
might be only "blending" thereby hiding those checker box's.

-vhelp

[junkmalle]

That ghosting is most likely from oversharpening.

The checkerboard pattern is dithering by the encoder or decoder to reduce banding from a reduced color depth source. The oversharpening exacerbates it too.

[lordsmurf]

And some of it is not visible on the tv anyway...

[yoda313]

Hello,

I get ghosting a lot because I have my main antenna split to two tvs WITHOUT a booster So there are some lines like that occasionally. That gets captured and not much I can do about it. (standard broadcast - not HDTV).

Kevin

[MikeS]

Thanks, that helped somewhat. I just hope my satellite receiver isn't causing it because I really don't want to buy another. It's a Toshiba TRX 1820 C-band receiver so it's sort of 1980's technology but it's supposed to be a good one (one of only 3 brands that had s-video). One thing I noticed is if I bring an on screen menus up, they also have the ghosting lines around them. So it might be the receiver after all.

[MikeS]

Yea, the dish is like 230 feet from the receiver.. I used RG-11 but maybe that's not enough.