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Anyways, to all you A/V files out there, i need some help with my dvd player. I recently got a new HD 16x9 tv. It's a 30" Phillips and is an actual picture tube. I'm having some major issues from painfully obvious halos on every dvd i watch (like the ones you get from too much edge enhancement or having the sharpness set too high). I know it's not the tv, as all our cable channels (analogue, digital, and HD) look fine (no halos) as do my laserdiscs. The thing that really confuses me though, is that turning the sharpness setting up actually makes the halos get better!? of course, to make the halos completely disappear, you have to turn the sharpness up so high that the picture looks like crap & all fine detail is gone. Another interesting bit about the sharpness feature is that turning it down too low (below about 35 or 30 on a scale of 100) actually makes anything look like "double vision". i.e. - there's two of whatever you're looking at mostly overlapping each other, but not quite lined up. But, as i said, when properly adjusted, everything looks great EXCEPT for those danged halos on dvd!! I've tested many dvds, so i know it's not just really bad edge enhancement on one or two discs. I've tried adjusting every setting on the tv, but only the sharpness makes any difference. The only thing i can think of that might be causing it is that i have a cheap (one of those $30 Cyberhome numbers from Walmart) dvd player hooked up with cheap video cables (the yellow, red & white ones). Would upgrading to a higher quality cable (maybe an s-video, or a component cable) help this? Or could it be the cheapo dvd player? I have also noticed, when looking really closely, what i can only describe as looking like the analogue "noise" you see on laserdiscs (the Definitve Star Wars discs being a prime example) when watching dvds. It's very slight, and i only saw it when i was scrutinzing those danged halos. during normal viewing, no one would ever see that "noise," but it is there. For all i know, that may be normal on dvd's & i just never noticed it.
Wow, that took a lot longer than i thought to explain, but my big question is, can anyone give me some tips on getting rid of those halos?!?! I already plan on picking up a calibration dvd sometime soon so i can get all my colors/ black levels/ contrast set up properly (thank you X0Project tutorials!!) but i fear that won't solve this problem.
