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From: James Sweet on 9 Dec 2006 23:44
Miggidy wrote:
> I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but I'll
> ask it anyway. I just bought a $2,000 dollar Sony 40" 1080 LCD tv
> (Sony KDL-40V2500). We don't have an HD box, but do have some nice
> Monster cables and all of that stuff. When I hooked up my DirectTV box
> to the tv, the picture quality is absolutely horrible, even worse than
> my old crappy tv. The dvd's look pretty good, but nothing like it did
> in the store.
>
> When I turn on a dvd it flashes 480i in the left corner. I'm not a
> genius, but isn't that pretty bad? How do i get the resolution higher
> than that? Anything will help. Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark
>


480i is standard def TV resolution, it'll look pretty horrible on a
digital TV with a native resolution of 720P. You'll need a DVD player
that supports progressive scan and then you have to enable it in the DVD
player. 480P is as high as standard DVDs go, anything higher you're
scaling in either the player or the TV. You'll have to use a HD source
or wait for HD-DVD or Blu-Ray in order to take advantage of your TV it
its native resolution.
From: Miggidy on 10 Dec 2006 03:15
Ok, now it is starting to make more sense. Thank you very much, I
really appreciate it!

From: Andrew Rossmann on 10 Dec 2006 09:54
[This followup was posted to sci.electronics.repair and a copy was sent
to the cited author.]

In article <1165706064.326732.148440(a)j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
LittleItaly125(a)gmail.com says...
> I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but I'll
> ask it anyway. I just bought a $2,000 dollar Sony 40" 1080 LCD tv
> (Sony KDL-40V2500). We don't have an HD box, but do have some nice
> Monster cables and all of that stuff. When I hooked up my DirectTV box
> to the tv, the picture quality is absolutely horrible, even worse than
> my old crappy tv. The dvd's look pretty good, but nothing like it did
> in the store.
>
> When I turn on a dvd it flashes 480i in the left corner. I'm not a
> genius, but isn't that pretty bad? How do i get the resolution higher
> than that? Anything will help. Thanks in advance.

480i is SD (standard definition) TV. If your DVD player supports it, you
can change it to 480p, but it may not make much of a difference. DVD's
are natively 480i, and 480p requires the player to do some upconversion
of it's own. This oddly can cause some LOSS of horizontal resolution.

One issue with fixed resolution TV's is that they must convert any input
to their native resolution. In the case of SD inputs, they often do all
sorts of processing in an attempt to make it look higher res than it is.
480(i or p) is about 704 or 720 horizontally. (1280x720 and 1920x1080
are the HD formats.) Upconverting does not actually increase resolution.
If the data is not there originally, you cannot recover it. All
upconverting does is GUESS what to fill in the 'missing' information by
using nearby pixels to average out something.

On top of that, most TV's also boost sharpness, which has the side
effect of also boosting noise.

For your TV, I would NOT use the VIVID settting, which just exaggerates
noise and other issues. Use Custom and turn down the sharpness.

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From: Miggidy on 10 Dec 2006 15:37

Thanks Andrew! I noticed when I put it on VIVID it looked much worse
than "custom" or "standard." I think I also put the sharpness almost
as high as it would go (along with some other things.) I'll turn that
down and see how it looks. Thanks for your help!

From: David Naylor on 10 Dec 2006 18:36
Miggidy wrote:
> I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but I'll
> ask it anyway. I just bought a $2,000 dollar Sony 40" 1080 LCD tv
> (Sony KDL-40V2500). We don't have an HD box, but do have some nice
> Monster cables and all of that stuff. When I hooked up my DirectTV box
> to the tv, the picture quality is absolutely horrible, even worse than
> my old crappy tv. The dvd's look pretty good, but nothing like it did
> in the store.
>
> When I turn on a dvd it flashes 480i in the left corner. I'm not a
> genius, but isn't that pretty bad? How do i get the resolution higher
> than that? Anything will help. Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark
>
Yup You have got the problem that the sales guy will never tell you.
I'am a servece tech for BB and most of todays sets will look horible on
an anologe signal. Meaning basic cable or your standard DVD
player.however there are a couple of cheap dvd players that sony and
samsung put out that upconvert youe signal to 1080. It is NOT HD but it
looks a whole lot better. When you go to HD though cable or direct tv
you will never go back....On the other hand there is a 26, 32, 37 inch
set out there now that looks good on anologe and WOWO on hd, and that
is the philips 26,32,37 mf231d...All the techs in my shop go crazy over
this unit .. check them out
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