Newbie Alert CRT to LCD questions
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Hi Guys,
Long time member,infrequent poster
i had a 32" CRT,now have the LG 37 LF7700 LCD model,Great.
Or not so great, who said LCD was better than Good old CRT,Pah !!
well,the TV is fine,but the image going to it isnt, sky SD !!
i have the sky SD setup via RGB Scart and experience like most poor quality mainly in movies/dark scenes,ghosting,peoples features displayed weird etc.
after alot of digging i come to the conclusion its sky`s crap transmission of SD channels being picked up by the new snazy LCD great !
So,i thought,maybe the tv would prefer a signal from HDMi,i know scart etc is still good but am thinking maybe the telly would deal better thru HDMi,so phoned up sky and have managed to blag a new sky HD box with an HDMi connector on it but retain my SD package (cant afford the extra for HD just yet !)
So,my question.
Can you change the output to the telly from the HD box from 1080p down to 720p,which i understand is better for SD stuff as its not so concentrated hence doesnt show up the defects in the SD image
This is the telly i have
http://www.lg.com/uk/tv-audio-video/...v-37LF7700.jsp
cheers for any info,a rather annoyed newbie to the flat panel world, i knew i put it off for some reason,now i remember !!!
Long time member,infrequent poster
i had a 32" CRT,now have the LG 37 LF7700 LCD model,Great.
Or not so great, who said LCD was better than Good old CRT,Pah !!
well,the TV is fine,but the image going to it isnt, sky SD !!
i have the sky SD setup via RGB Scart and experience like most poor quality mainly in movies/dark scenes,ghosting,peoples features displayed weird etc.
after alot of digging i come to the conclusion its sky`s crap transmission of SD channels being picked up by the new snazy LCD great !
So,i thought,maybe the tv would prefer a signal from HDMi,i know scart etc is still good but am thinking maybe the telly would deal better thru HDMi,so phoned up sky and have managed to blag a new sky HD box with an HDMi connector on it but retain my SD package (cant afford the extra for HD just yet !)
So,my question.
Can you change the output to the telly from the HD box from 1080p down to 720p,which i understand is better for SD stuff as its not so concentrated hence doesnt show up the defects in the SD image
This is the telly i have
http://www.lg.com/uk/tv-audio-video/...v-37LF7700.jsp
cheers for any info,a rather annoyed newbie to the flat panel world, i knew i put it off for some reason,now i remember !!!
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You will still get some HD channels even without the HD subscription. HDMI is unlikely to make much of a difference unless the upscaling from the box is better or there was something wrong with your set up before, SCART can often give a better picture for SD because the Sky de-interlacer is not so good.
Edit: Bobcar beat me to it, the Auto setting would seem to be the best option.
i have also ordered a replacement telly before i get a refund to give it a chance,maybe a faulty telly ?
well see
cheers
37" lcd, you managed to downgrade in size if that was a 4:3. If it was wide screen as well, its fractionally larger.
You feed a digital tv an analog picture its going to look horrible, different levels of horrible based on the level of its conversion abilities. You dont benefit at all going from 1080p to 720p, never mind that at 37" its kinda too small to matter either way. But the fact is the lcd either has 1080p or 720p worth of pixels, all display is always rescaled to the native resolution for final display. Telling the hd box to downgrade the image so your tv will try to rescale it back to 1080p again is just adding yet another layer of loss to the process.