HV Display problems

["Eamon O'Gorman" <eamonogorman@xxxxxxx>]

Can anyonme tell me what kind of set up they usde for displaying HV text
over incomming video ? I have been using a modulator to give it its own
channel until recently, but would like to change this to text overlay onto
incomming video. I did manage to get video in and out wiorking on HV, but
the quality of the picture was not the best, See below for how I did it.
What is the best way to do this without a deterioration in picture quality
?
My TV distribution is done via coax from central cubboard where vid, dvd
and
sat reciever are located..


I have until recently been using a modulator to display hv menu system over
the tvs throughout the house. I'v just been doing a bit of reconfiguring of
this, as I want to get HV to display CID info over external video.

How I've done this is by feeding video out of my cable box, through hv, and
then into the video in, of my video player. The picture quality, is only ok
?. The top bit of the screen is blury, and the colour is not as strong or
sharp as you would expect. Any ideas as to what I can do to improve this ?.

Also,     I know the video in and out is working on HV, but what is the
best
way to get it to display text over external video as a test (I cant seem to
get this to work).

I have HAL2000, and was hoping to use this to display the CID info, and I
notice that it does seem to do someting to the picture (I notice a flicker)
when it recognises CID comming in, but fails to display text. Anyway,
unless
I can improve the picture quality through HV, I dont think I'm going to be
using the external vodeo function.

Is anyone using this function and how tdo you find the picture quality ?
Thanks,
Eamon