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Betelgeuse wrote in message <366040fd.0@news.cgocable.net>...
>I went through 4 Spectras since I bought mine originally in early October.
>The first board I got had abysmal 2D quality, so I exchanged it for another
>through Canopus. The 2nd one had good quality but it had ghosting, which I
>thought was due to my monitor, so I bought a new 19" monitor and used BNC
>cables, still ghosting, and on top of that the board died shortly
>thereafter. So I got another one, this one was a pre-release board and had
>signs of physical damage, so I exchanged it again (also had ghosting), the
>4th one which I'm using now has nice and sharp 2D but still has ghosting. I
>talked to Canopus and they said the problem with poor image quality has
been
>solved and that there should be no ghosting. I'm sceptical however. I had
an
>STB Velocity 4400 and Millennium G200, both of which had no ghosting and
had
>superior 2D image quality. I'm not sure what I should do at this point. To
>say I'm disappointed is an understatement. I expected nothing but the best
>from Canopus, but got quite the opposite as it seems.
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>Betelgeuse,
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>Inquisitor wrote in message
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>>I've tried Diamond TNT and found that it's display quality is
>>good, albeit not as good as G200 but the difference is
>>negligible.  So I surmised that all TNT boards have good
>>display quality.
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>>I decided to go for the Canopus one as it has the
>>reverse pass thru for V2 which I feel like should give
>>me even better display quality.  But I'm dead wrong.
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>>The display quality of Canopus TNT is bad, so bad that
>>my eyes will go tire after few moments of staring
>>at the screen.  The perimeter of the text is jagged,
>>the black is fading not solid and the background white
>>is grey.  I thought I have a bad card and exchage a new
>>one but the same problem persisted.
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>>Then I check dejanews and found a plethorn of people
>>complaining about the same thing.  How I wish I have
>>checked dejanews before I bought the card.
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>>I think the problem is Canopus is not using a reference
>>board design but it's own proprietary design and they
>>screwed up badly in the display department.
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>>I bought it because I want to be freed of the V2 pass thru
>>interference but I'm getting exactly the opposite result.
>>Regret is not a good enought word to describ my feeling at this
>>moment.
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