Originally posted by: RichKS
A friend recently bought a brand new 32" Sony WEGA flat CRT and I set it up for her (she basically said "My husband knows about plumbing and stuff, Rich, you know about this TVs, can you set this up for me?"). It replaced an old Philips 28" widescreen that she'd had for 5 years. I set it all up with RGB and the picture from her DVD player was amazing. When she plugged in her Sky+ (TiVo) and started watching that. Suddenly you could see all the compression and jaggies from the recorder that you just couldn't see on the Philips. I had to turn the sharpness down on the set so that it blurred the jaggies and they "disappeared".
First off, before I start blabbering on...I'm in "NTSC land" (although I do have region-free PAL-compatible DVD players for my viewing pleasure) and this is the info on my set: Sony KP-43HT20 43" Rear Projection HDTV Monitor
I see these digital 'artifacts' especially bad when I'm watching "analog" TV through my digital cable box (comcast - US cable provider). I can't watch sports on my HDTV unless its an HD broadcast because the compression is so distracting. On the 32" 4:3 TV (a bit more than a year old) I don't see any of these 'artifacts' at all...the same broadcasts look clear and relatively crisp.
Many retail DVDs also have these 'artifacts' also. They aren't anywhere near as distracting but I am able to see some "blockiness", especially in darker scenes. Most of the newer retail DVDs I've picked up, for example Hellboy, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (snore), and Saw (a total piece of s**t movie, but a good transfer) don't have these 'digital artifacts'...is this due to better compression algorithms or the fact that they are quite possibly purely digital movies?
OFF TOPIC N00b-style: One final question are there any higher-quality, attainable sources for the OT than laserdisc?
With an anamorphic encode though, I have the choice of how much I want to "unsharpen" the picture, just like I can decide how much I want to drink when I go out on the pull
A friend recently bought a brand new 32" Sony WEGA flat CRT and I set it up for her (she basically said "My husband knows about plumbing and stuff, Rich, you know about this TVs, can you set this up for me?"). It replaced an old Philips 28" widescreen that she'd had for 5 years. I set it all up with RGB and the picture from her DVD player was amazing. When she plugged in her Sky+ (TiVo) and started watching that. Suddenly you could see all the compression and jaggies from the recorder that you just couldn't see on the Philips. I had to turn the sharpness down on the set so that it blurred the jaggies and they "disappeared".
First off, before I start blabbering on...I'm in "NTSC land" (although I do have region-free PAL-compatible DVD players for my viewing pleasure) and this is the info on my set: Sony KP-43HT20 43" Rear Projection HDTV Monitor
I see these digital 'artifacts' especially bad when I'm watching "analog" TV through my digital cable box (comcast - US cable provider). I can't watch sports on my HDTV unless its an HD broadcast because the compression is so distracting. On the 32" 4:3 TV (a bit more than a year old) I don't see any of these 'artifacts' at all...the same broadcasts look clear and relatively crisp.
Many retail DVDs also have these 'artifacts' also. They aren't anywhere near as distracting but I am able to see some "blockiness", especially in darker scenes. Most of the newer retail DVDs I've picked up, for example Hellboy, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (snore), and Saw (a total piece of s**t movie, but a good transfer) don't have these 'digital artifacts'...is this due to better compression algorithms or the fact that they are quite possibly purely digital movies?
OFF TOPIC N00b-style: One final question are there any higher-quality, attainable sources for the OT than laserdisc?
With an anamorphic encode though, I have the choice of how much I want to "unsharpen" the picture, just like I can decide how much I want to drink when I go out on the pull
Heh...well put.
D.O.