Re: How good should LCD TV pictures be?

John Russell wrote:
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"Foz" <Foz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dvhnsv$7pg$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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?



I'd be interested to see a review of this - a quick test with the component output from my PC using some recorded freeview at 720p *seemed* to be a fair bit sharper on a 32" LCD ...

Rob
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