Video Degraded - Direct TV

Lenny_lacey · Dec 27, 2014

I had to bypass, the pass-through feature and this really bothers me - what is the point of a central Entertainment hub when you can not use the TV features., has anyone figured out how to fix this, is MS working on it?

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backofthepack8 · Dec 27, 2014

Degraded video quality on Live TV

My Panasonic GT50 (sorry only 50" lol), also looks worse with xbox one hooked up, plus I get a lot of channels that freeze up for about 10 seconds when I change to them, really frustrating as I really wanted this to work.

Nuclear Foxbat · Dec 27, 2014

Degraded video quality on Live TV

I, too, am bitterly disappointed with the picture quality of the Live TV feature. I have a Samsung HDR "Freesat" box (UK) which outputs 1080p. Pass it through the XBox and it looks worse than a standard def (576p) picture, more like 480p.

Put up with it for a day before plugging the sat box back (directly) into the TV.

Kelly Craven · Feb 8, 2015

Because I'm moving I unhooked the XB1 and connected the cable box directly to the TV. I was quite stunned at the video quality improvement of Live TV when the XB1 was removed. I don't know if this a new degradation or if it's always been there as I've used
the XB1 and Live TV app pretty much from day one of the XB1 release.

Essentially, the HD DPI looks less and the picture looks slightly fuzzy when compared to direct to TV from the cable box.

My guess is MS is not working on this since no one has responded in over a month.

This is not specific to DirecTV as I've always been a Comcast customer. Will be DirecTV after the move though.

GroundedChevy · Feb 12, 2015

I have the same problem. Picture quality is horrible through the Xbox one compared to plugged in directly. I'm using a DirectTV HR44

GroundedChevy · Nov 1, 2018

FYI turning off the auto HDMI setting helped my picture a ton.

GroundedChevy

FYI turning off the auto HDMI setting helped my picture a ton.

Kelly Craven

Because I'm moving I unhooked the XB1 and connected the cable box directly to the TV. I was quite stunned at the video quality improvement of Live TV when the XB1 was removed. I don't know if this a new degradation or if it's always been there as I've used
the XB1 and Live TV app pretty much from day one of the XB1 release.

Essentially, the HD DPI looks less and the picture looks slightly fuzzy when compared to direct to TV from the cable box.

My guess is MS is not working on this since no one has responded in over a month.

This is not specific to DirecTV as I've always been a Comcast customer. Will be DirecTV after the move though.

GroundedChevy

I have the same problem. Picture quality is horrible through the Xbox one compared to plugged in directly. I'm using a DirectTV HR44

The Angry OchO

I had a Google TV for several years. I foresaw many of the issues the XB1 is going through due to my time that device. It did degrade picture quality to a small degree, the XB1 seems to be worse and it's actually changing on me. I've had to factory reset
it twice now, each time my TV picture quality looked different. The first time it was less sharp and very laggy. The second time there was serious lag and an orange tinge to Black's. Now after the third reset it's a little snappier but now I'm getting color
banding in my TiVos menus like really bad gradients.

If it's any consolation, Google TV's pass through picture quality improved overtime with updates and the XB1 has plenty of horsepower to do it right. Problem is Microsoft is striping system resources from non-gaming applications to aid in resolutiongate.
The next problem is every system update seems to break about as much as it improves. It will get better, hopefully without any serious hardware revisions.

swanlee

Same here same deal degraded PQ compared to just plugging the cable box directly into the tv

Xfinity X1 cable box and LG HDTV

Crushed blacks, pixelated, softer picture etc.

Video Degraded - Direct TV