Re: How good should LCD TV pictures be?


"John Russell" <john_e_russell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Foz" <Foz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have just invested £1600 in a 37" LCD TV, and am a little disappointed
with the picture quality!

I have Sky digital and have connected the STB to the TV with SCART
cables,
but I am finding that there is a lot of what I'd call "MPEG shimmering"
around the edges of detail, which is particularly bad on sports
programmes.

Is this normal, or am I possibly missing out on a config setting
somewhere?
Does anyone know what the optimal settings are for the Sky digibox?

Although analogue reception is lousy where I live (and there is no
terrestrial digital signal), the edges are as sharp as would be expected.

Cheers,

Fozzie


Ever used an LCD monitor?

An LCD is a digital device with what's called a native resolution, that's
the actual number of LCD elements that make up the screen.

If you drive an LCD display with a digital input at the native resolution
you get a fantastic image. If you use a lower resolution you start to get
down sampling anomalies.

That's why HDTV LCD's get good reviews when used to display HDTV, but the
quality at lower resolutions is a lot lower.

So it you got this display in preparation to upgrade to HDTV your going to
suffer in the mean time, and even then very few HDTV channels will be
available and your going to watch a lot of poor PAL standard channels.

My DVD's look great on LCD monitor at native resolution i.e. when the PC
media players are upsampling. I wonder if a mediaPC will be the best source
for a HDTV LCD display driving it at the native resolution, no matter the
resolution of the source media?


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