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New LCD TV
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 |
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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 Didn't it come with a manual? -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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New LCD TV
Yeah, but it doesn't explain how to change it. I read every page. It
just says it supports all of those resolutions. Its very annoying! |
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"Miggidy" wrote in message oups.com... Yeah, but it doesn't explain how to change it. I read every page. It just says it supports all of those resolutions. Its very annoying! Doesn't it have a Menu button? |
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Yeah, there's nothing in the menu that has to do with the resolution,
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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. |
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Ok, now it is starting to make more sense. Thank you very much, I
really appreciate it! |
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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! |
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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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"David Naylor" wrote in message ... 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 Upconverting DVD players rarely improve much. They cannot add information that is not there to start with. At best they increase the number of scan lines without introducing artifacts. If the scaling, and perhaps deinterlacing, is better in the player than the display, the upconverting player will look better. If the scaling, and/or, deinterlacing and pulldown are better in the display, as most better quality sets are, the upconverting player is a waste of resources. Some HD sets look better than otheres with lower resolution or noisy sources. This is something that varies greatly. Generally, the traditional TV makers do a better job of handling poor quality NTSC and digital sources on HD displays. Sony's DRC in its most recent two versions is one of the best systems for dealing with lousy 480i sources. DirecTV is notorious for compressing HD signals at times, and SD most of the time to unacceptable levels. OTA ATSC signals are nearly always better and HD on cable systems is often better. Leonard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 16111 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now! |
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see sony for some support:
http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/mod...00®ion_id=1 after you read the manual you will determine what cables are needed to connect your new direct tv box to the tv. you need to feed it with an hd box signal or else it will display standard tv. or www.crutchfield.com has explanation articles. also: and: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdtv 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 |
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