how come my new HD tv sucks compared to my old 15 inch 480 LCD, is it bc my new one is a tube tv? its a samsung, and it puts out 1080i, when i play my xbox 360 it dosent look as good as my old little tv, any one know why?
2007-01-03 17:27:22 · 5 answers · asked by brazil4life2006 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
I sell DISH Network satellite television service and this is a very common thing to hear from customers who just purchased a new HDTV.
Most people are under the assumption because they have an "HDTV" thats its just automatically going to show everything better. Its just not true!
There are 2 things at play here...
#1 Have you ever tried to enlarge a photograph and notice that the enlarged photo is not as crisp and clear as the origional? Same is true for televisions, the bigger the screen, the more detail and flaws your going to see in the picture.
#2 It depends on how your connection is being made to your televsion. If your using Coax, Composit, or S-Video the television has an internal scaler that is going to upconvert a 480 signal to 1080i. If your X box came with the HD component video cables, then your X box is upconverting the signal to 1080i before it goes into your television.
There are some things you can do to fix this issue...
#1 If you haven't already done so, I would highly suggest using the HDTV component video cable that you can get for your X Box. I have a Sony 32" HDTV and my picture looks awesome!
#2 Try adjusting the colors, sharpness and black levels on your televison. On my Sony there are several preset options like Vivid, Pro, Movie and Standard. I had the same problem when I first got my Televison because the default setting was on Vivid, after changing some of the colors the picture looked much much better.
#3 There are companies that will charge you a few hundred dollars to professionally calibrate your television and properly adjust all the colors. From what I have seen, deffinitly money well spent however they do sell DVD's that guide you through the steps in setting up the correct colors on your own for a fraction of the cost.
Hope this helps
2007-01-03 17:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by metrodish 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It probably IS because of it being a tube TV. Fixed-pixel displays look (and usually are) sharper. No (consumer-level) CRT can display 1080 lines of resolution, even though that is what's going into the tube. The beam spot is just too big. This is especially noticeable in video games.
2007-01-03 18:23:42 · answer #2 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at the moment very few plasma/LCD tv's can compare to CRT in the picture quality stakes-also bear in mind that your old set was 15 inches-i assume the samsung is larger. so the picture is not as concentrated as it would be on the smaller set. there is nothing wrong with your HDTV-it is just a case of getting used to it thats all.
2007-01-03 22:02:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-19 10:54:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe
2007-01-07 06:23:34 · answer #5 · answered by jerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋