<mode=thread hi-jack> Hey, whilst we've got the attention of the umh-c (that doesn't look right...) tv-isti, can anyone assist me with setting up my Tosh 32ZD26P? I've hooked it all up to my PC via a decent quality s-video/SCART lead and used Nvidia's nview tool to set up 1280x720 res, etc. It's a 100Hz prog-scan box so I was kinda anticipating being able to get a slightly crisper, sharper picture out of it than I'm getting... I'm using Microsoft's "generic television" .INF file at the mo which I'm assuming is 4:3 only so is probably not ideal. Nview has the ability to set custom synch timing settings such as Horizontal & Vertical "Front porch", "Back Porch", "Synch width" and "Synch polarity" none of which mean a great deal to me other than "Touch these and fry your TV"... I think I need a custom .INF file... Advice? -- | Wik -UKRMHRC#10- 2003 R1150GSA -DC#1 -'FOT#0 'FOF #39 - BOD#12 BOB#12 |# You don't believe me | "Experience is the worst teacher. |That the scenery | It always gives the test first |Could be a cold-blooded killer. | and the instruction afterward." ***** human response from wik at blueyonder dot co dot uk *****
In uk.rec.motorcycles, madmax amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom: DVDs cost about twice that but you might get two cheesy VHS films for that, I suppose.
I've got the Tosh 36Z-thingy, & could never get a decent picture with an NVidia card. The solution was to get an ATI card, & now everything's hunky dory.
Yes I've got one - it's great and I haven't even tried HD yet - see my review under the "Opinions on Panasonic TH42PV500" thread.
sweller wrote Better quality pictures for the crap you watch on TV. It will cost you thousands to replace all your existing LD technology to HD. The programmes will still be crap.
you can, but most are 1080i - 720p's main advantage is the full distinct 60 frames (or 50 for uk) per second - great for sport and video material - but irrelevant with movies because they are only 24fps to begin with so nothing is gained. therefore for movies 1080i is best (until 1080p sources appear of course - blu ray and hi def dvd are rumoured to store the movie as 24 1080p frames per second. -- Gareth. my Dad took me out for the evening and some girl was being a right embarrassment trying to get off with him, i had to pretend that i was his girlfreind so that the stupid bitch would leave him alone, and we had a right good laugh ahout it too. 'varizo' 26th Nov 04 http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dsbmusic/
Oh aye, black-stretch on/off, Digital Noise Reduction on/off. Don't have a white-level adjustment, but did follow some destruc^H^H^H^H^Hinstructions that had me winding the contrast right up on the set and then adjust it back down through the video-card's software. Kind of worked but messed the set up for normal telly watching. Was nowhere near perfect. -- | Wik -UKRMHRC#10- 2003 R1150GSA -DC#1 -'FOT#0 'FOF #39 - BOD#12 BOB#12 |# You don't believe me | "Experience is the worst teacher. |That the scenery | It always gives the test first |Could be a cold-blooded killer. | and the instruction afterward." ***** human response from wik at blueyonder dot co dot uk *****
Hmmm...I've heard it said that the Nvidia signal is very strong so I had a twiddle with the "overdrive" slider and reduced it. It just made all the colour and definition wash out. Thing is, it's an otherwise excellent card and although I'd like a 256MB job (mine's a "baby" 128MB), I'd have a job justifying the expense right now. Besides, my next upgrade's going to be PCI-E and SLI, but let me finish paying for this rig first! ;-) -- | Wik -UKRMHRC#10- 2003 R1150GSA -DC#1 -'FOT#0 'FOF #39 - BOD#12 BOB#12 |# You don't believe me | "Experience is the worst teacher. |That the scenery | It always gives the test first |Could be a cold-blooded killer. | and the instruction afterward." ***** human response from wik at blueyonder dot co dot uk *****
True dat. I believe most broadcasters in the US and UK (including the BBC) have been filming in HD for some time. Here in Texas I have 6 HD channels over the air, and the quality is stunning.
In the UK then the only HDTV is from P2P sharing? So you get to see the next season of the Sopranos a few months earlier and in HDTV, sounds good. But what to watch it on? I'm guessing from what you say its in 1080i so thats 1920x1080 native res. From a quick look on the internet, the plasmas that can display that native cost USD50k and there are a few projectors >USD20k apparently. LCDs are much cheaper but at the >23" size seem to suffer from smearing etc the DELL one ( UKP700) is discounted, but heavely slagged by reviewers for its displaying of TV. Seems the display technology is not quite there at the moment. If you want to watch HDTV you'd be beter off with the biggest CRT computer monitor with HDMI connections. BTW the HDTV rips you've seen are they the full mpg stream or have they been "captured" somehow you know d/a then A/D (or something)? M
www.battlefield2.com Thanks for asking. -- | Wik -UKRMHRC#10- 2003 R1150GSA -DC#1 -'FOT#0 'FOF #39 - BOD#12 BOB#12 |# You don't believe me | "Experience is the worst teacher. |That the scenery | It always gives the test first |Could be a cold-blooded killer. | and the instruction afterward." ***** human response from wik at blueyonder dot co dot uk *****
most people will watch them on a 720p screen - sure a 1080 one is nicer still, but with the pc scaling them to 720 it does look a whole lot better than the crappy broadcasts we have to put up with. most are the full stream - gladiator is over 20 gig for example, although i have seen a few that have been wmv encoded to a size that can be stored on a dvd - like terminator 3. they still look good although i've not looked at them THAT closely - but i guess original transport stream is the way to go. -- Gareth. my Dad took me out for the evening and some girl was being a right embarrassment trying to get off with him, i had to pretend that i was his girlfreind so that the stupid bitch would leave him alone, and we had a right good laugh ahout it too. 'varizo' 26th Nov 04 http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dsbmusic/
if i owned a games company, i'd slap any programmer that came up with such a system requirement - dont they realise selling as many copies as possible is the aim? - is it really coincidence that the sims will run on a feeble pc and is the best selling game ever? -- Gareth. my Dad took me out for the evening and some girl was being a right embarrassment trying to get off with him, i had to pretend that i was his girlfreind so that the stupid bitch would leave him alone, and we had a right good laugh ahout it too. 'varizo' 26th Nov 04 http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/dsbmusic/
