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After I transfer my recordings to my computer and ply them back there is a
small white strip above the picture moving horizontally. Does anyone know
what this is???

Also and most importantly, what happens if I am transferring files but then
decide to watch tivo or record something at the same time. Is this going to
affect my downloads or anything???

Thanks

 

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Josell Paredes wrote:
> After I transfer my recordings to my computer and ply them back there is a
> small white strip above the picture moving horizontally. Does anyone know
> what this is???

I've seen that too. Are you using Media Player 10 to watch it? I think
this may be a player artifact, but I'm not sure about that.

> Also and most importantly, what happens if I am transferring files but then
> decide to watch tivo or record something at the same time. Is this going to
> affect my downloads or anything???

It's possible, but from reports it doesn't seem to be significant if
there's any effect.

Randy S.

 

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"Josell Paredes" <josell@hotmail.com> shaped the electrons to say:
>After I transfer my recordings to my computer and ply them back there is a
>small white strip above the picture moving horizontally. Does anyone know
>what this is???

TV's have an overscan region - you don't see the entire picture as
broadcast, the TV cuts off the edges. This is because you can't get
framing perfect with the analog system, so they put in a fudge
factor.

But PC software generally shows you the whole frame without any
overscan matte. And if the original broadcast signal is just a little
bit off you'll see some of the Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) which
is between the visual data. (An NTSC frame has 525 lines - 480 are
visual, the rest are part of the VBI). The VBI is where CC data
lives, time signals, etc. And if you could see it, it'd look like
black and white patterns.

So you're probably seeing just the edge of the VBI.

>Also and most importantly, what happens if I am transferring files but then
>decide to watch tivo or record something at the same time. Is this going to
>affect my downloads or anything???

It might slow down the transfer if the unit is doing a bunch of other
stuff that needs the CPU, that's about it.

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> But PC software generally shows you the whole frame without any
> overscan matte. And if the original broadcast signal is just a little
> bit off you'll see some of the Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) which
> is between the visual data. (An NTSC frame has 525 lines - 480 are
> visual, the rest are part of the VBI). The VBI is where CC data
> lives, time signals, etc. And if you could see it, it'd look like
> black and white patterns.
>
> So you're probably seeing just the edge of the VBI.

I'm fairly certain that you're correct. The white strip (actually more
of a line) doesn't look random, but it does look like some sort of
encoded information. This would match up with your explanation.

Randy S.