🚀 go-pugleaf

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.


Betelgeuse,
"Armpit of the Giant"

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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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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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