Caturing DVD and Playing on a Sony 51" wide screen

[scott@butlerandco.co]

I have a Sony 51 inch 16:9 wide screen High def tv. I have been trying to produce a farely decent quality dvd from vhs tapes. I could not get it to look good. I tried everything I could think of and then I final put my dvd XBOX onto a normal 32inch rca and bang all the dvds I created previously looked great. just as good as the tape I got them off. Wondering if anyone has had similar issues with this or any high def tvs.

Scott

[K2]

Wish I had your TV

The question is how does your HDTV deal with interlaced video input?
If you are in the US then the captured video is likely interlaced.

On my DVD player it has a choice of progressive, turn it off for interlaced video.

[scott@butlerandco.co]

I do remember seeing the interlaced feature on the TV and I beleive it is on I will try turning this off the TV has a selection for interlaced as well. I forgot all about this. Thanks
Scott

[BKL]

I think I read this on www.extremetech.com and I have noticed similar issues on my Panasonic 51" HDTV (not widescreen). The article dealt with the author's travails trying to get a HDTV he really liked. One of the problems he mentioned was that many HDTVs do not do a good job with analog signals. The high quality stuff just looks so good that analog-sourced stuff is noticeably lower quality. It may be that your analog-sourced DVDs just don't have the clarity to show cleanly on the big set, but look fine on the smaller set.

[Marco33]

I have an HDTV 43". We are spoiled. Yes, you will find that the picture of just about any low quality recording will look better on a smaller picture. I'm doing a VHS to dvd conversion of lots of stuff right now. They all look beter on my regular 32".

HDTV does NOT do a good job on analog. When I was looking at a big TV. THe salesman asked me what am I buying it for. I said DVD movies. He said good, cause if you are buying it for regular TV... you should buy a NON HDTV.

I find that setting the DVD & HDTV to Interlaced does little. Also after capturing some VHS and running it through bit rate viewer it says it's Progresive, and I encode acordingly and I don't even notive the "ghost" effect.

[Vejita-sama]

It really could just be the size of your screen. I have a 36" TV (RCA standard 4:3 nothing special), and a lot of my older VCDs that looks great on my old 25" just plain look like crap on the 36". My dad has a 110" projection system in his basement and they looked like enlarged DiVX files on that.

Basically the source was/is always crap but we just couldn't tell/see it before

[scott@butlerandco.co]

Well, I have tried all the interlaced options on the HDTV set and they do nothing that I can notice. I agree with the above post that the hd sets just simply dont like the analog signal. Thanks for everyones input on this. I did notice that when I capture the Direct TV signal that the quality is better. It is about the same as viewing the direct tv programming on the HDTV. Does anyone know of any sotware that will capture in the high def. signal ? I would like to try to capture these signals and see what they look like.

Thanks
Scott

[Marco33]

This is a good forum for HDTV stuff.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/213962