Have you tried going directly from the dstb to the TV? What kind of cables are you using? (Options are YPbPr aka component, HDMI, or DVI--anything else is SD onry)
I work for my cable company, but we have PVRs, so I don't know squat about TiVO (caps correct?)--however basic theory still applies. Is your TiVO device HD-compliant? If so it should have YPbPr, HDMI, and/or DVI inputs as well as outputs. If it's not HD-compliant you can't daisy-chain it and still get HD. If it is, you can use YPbPr from the dstb to the TiVO, then another set of YPbPr to the TV. (this is an example--I actually prefer HDMI since it does audio and video in one cable, whereas YPbPr is one 3-pronged cable for picture and requires a separate 2-pronged RCA audio for sound).
You should connect your Wii, PS3, 360, &c. in parallel rather than in series. Game consoles cannot make use of any input from a dstb. Just change inputs when you want to game instead of daisy-chaining everything together so that if any one link in the chain fails, the whole thing goes to shit.
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Date: 2009-11-05 04:04 am (UTC)I work for my cable company, but we have PVRs, so I don't know squat about TiVO (caps correct?)--however basic theory still applies. Is your TiVO device HD-compliant? If so it should have YPbPr, HDMI, and/or DVI inputs as well as outputs. If it's not HD-compliant you can't daisy-chain it and still get HD. If it is, you can use YPbPr from the dstb to the TiVO, then another set of YPbPr to the TV. (this is an example--I actually prefer HDMI since it does audio and video in one cable, whereas YPbPr is one 3-pronged cable for picture and requires a separate 2-pronged RCA audio for sound).
You should connect your Wii, PS3, 360, &c. in parallel rather than in series. Game consoles cannot make use of any input from a dstb. Just change inputs when you want to game instead of daisy-chaining everything together so that if any one link in the chain fails, the whole thing goes to shit.