Progressive scan output from series 1?

[divxmaster]

I've had a quick hunt around on nztivo and oztivo, and cant find an answer
to this.

Ive been putting up with interlace artifacts on my lcd tv (from tivo) since I got it a couple of years
back, my philips LCD doesnt deal with interlace very well. (svideo input from tivo).

Does anyone know if the series 1 tivo (Philips) can output progressive scan?
If not, does anyone run a hardware scaler?

(I finally put my tivo into 720x576 mode at least, and upped the bitrate, this removes
macroblocks, should have done this years ago - had this tivo for 7 years!)

Cheers,
Mike.

[petestrash]

I can't remember progressive being an option that anyone has found in the firmware, not even sure if the chipsets support it.

I'm also not sure if TV's support progressive via S-Video, pretty sure you would need to connect your TV via Component, HDMI, DVI etc for it to be supported.

Peter.

[Skolink]

Progressive scan isn't possible on S-Video (on any device). I believe the Thomson (UK) TiVo has component outputs, so might be possible on that.

[petestrash]

The UK TiVo has RGB out, but believe component is available on that chipset. Though not aware of anyone who has made it work.

Peter.

[divxmaster]

Thanks for that,
yes, I guessed it wasnt possible, due to the fact that there was no mention of it.
I also remembered (very) late last night that progressive cant be done over svideo,
oh well, guess its a hardware scaler or, ick, mysky HD... I think I'd still
rather keep the tivo at SD.

Cheers.
Mike