Sky+HD vs Virgin Media TiVo
Is it Sky+HD or Virgin Media TiVo that has the best picture quality? We find out with our exclusive tests
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LOWER-QUALITY SOURCE FOOTAGE IMAGE COMPARISON
Even from live HD TV, you will occasionally experience low-quality source footage, such as these in-car cameras on Top Gear. Combined with all the dust passing through the car, this causes a lot of unwanted noise.
The original Full HD frame
Sharpening has made the confusion of the dust worse, obscuring the facial features to a great idea
There are some coloured patches of noise from the original footage, but the Sky+HD box handled it the best
iPlayer footage on the Virgin Media TiVo, surprisingly, doesn’t come out too badly. It softens quite a lot of the detail, but also smoothes out the noise
Pixel-perfect copy of the live stream, complete with the same level of detail