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PPC 5500 TV Tuner problem

Submitted by Seven Begore on July 16, 2006 - 1:39am. PowerPC Macs

So, I've got this 5500/225 all decked out with video-in, tv tuner, s-video, etc. I've been working the last few days to get it to work as an alternate TV. I've just gotten to hooking it to my cable. Problem is it only tunes a few channels, and they few it tunes are terrible quality. I've tried different cables from the splitter and they all give the same bad* quality. Is this the fault of the tuner card or Apple Video Player? The Video-In input seems to have higher quality.

*Edited for language by DrW. Watch it.

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maybe you need to program the

Submitted by gobabushka on July 16, 2006 - 3:30am.

maybe you need to program the tuner. there should be a setting in the apple video player to detect the channels available.

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Well, all the channels are th

Submitted by Seven Begore on July 16, 2006 - 4:17am.

Well, all the channels are there, they are just mostly static.

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There should be settings for

Submitted by hackintoshg4 on July 16, 2006 - 6:07pm.

There should be settings for the type of channels, similiar to on old tvs to detect whether they are the 2-13 over the air or 2-125 cable channels.

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Screen resolution

Submitted by IceCap on July 16, 2006 - 11:43pm.

You need to trim down your screen resolution. I can't remember how far down but it may be something like 800x600. Just try all the options of resolution (restart the TV tuner after each resolution change).

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Re: There should be settings for

Submitted by Seven Begore on July 18, 2006 - 4:27am.
hackintoshg4 wrote:
There should be settings for the type of channels, similiar to on old tvs to detect whether they are the 2-13 over the air or 2-125 cable channels.
Where might I find these settings?

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