TV Out with VGA or S-Video

[SE14man]

I have a widescreen tele, What am i likely to get better quality with my movies with, using VGA or TV out?

I was using TV out on a very old Tele before (It was CRT) i was also using TV Out (S-Video) and maybe because the screen was smaller i was getting perfect quality maybe you could tell me if thats the reason?

Now i have bought another Tele and am using VGA and i find i the picture seems less good quality than it did on the CRT television.

Is this because im using VGA on this widescreen andi should be getting a decent TV Out card and using that?

Cheers.

[jagabo]

How big was your old TV? How big is your new TV? If I remember correctly from another thread, your new TV is a 1366x768 LCD, right? What resolution is the file you're viewing?

What do you mean by "less good quality"? Sharpness? Colors? Brightness? Contrast? Noise? Blocky artifacts? Blurring during motion?

A small picture on a small screen:



The image is sharp, the text is crisp.

The same small picture on a big screen:



The small image simply doesn't have enough information to look sharp and crisp when blown up to fill the bigger screen.

If you want a sharp image on a big screen you need to find a high resolution source. Try downloading some of the HD movie trailers from apple.com, or some high def divx files from stage6.com.

Color, black level, and brightness can be adjusted via your graphics card's setup applet. Use a calibration image to get everything right:

http://www.belle-nuit.com/testchart.html

[guns1inger]

If you are connecting to a television via VGA, make sure you have correctly chosen the right resolution for your TV. Using a lower resolution, especially on an LCD television, will look soft and low quality. Check the manual, find the native resolution for your TV, then set the resolution accordingly. If your PC doesn't support the right resolution by default, upgrade your video drivers.

[SE14man]

My Old Tv was 21".
New one is 1366x768.
It happens with all video files.
On the old Tele i didnt notice so much pixelation (Bad quality) Now the screen is bigger its like the quality is worse.
I'll explain it a bit more say if you were to encode something thats 2 hours long at 600 MB onbiously the quality would be crap, so if i were to watch it on my old TV the qualityo n full screen would be bad, but then watch it on the new one i have (the widescreen) i would be able to see the bad quality more!

I was wondering if there was settings i could change somewhere to make the quality on films as good as it was on my old TV still using VGA or would i have to get a high teck tv card or neither? Isit the screen being bigger that means i will be able to see the bad quality more because its bigger?

Cheers.

[guns1inger]

On the new TV you will see all the flaws much more than on the old TV. Also, LCDs, especially cheaper one, tend to have lower contrast values and will have a brighter overall picture, which will show up all the banding and blocking that is often hidden in the dark. In short, anything even marginally not perfect will look like it isn't perfect.

[jagabo]

if you were to encode something thats 2 hours long at 600 MB onbiously the quality would be crap, so if i were to watch it on my old TV the qualityo n full screen would be bad, but then watch it on the new one i have (the widescreen) i would be able to see the bad quality more!

Yes, your new TV is better at showing you how bad those overcompressed videos are. It should also better at showing you how much better HD videos are.

I was wondering if there was settings i could change somewhere to make the quality on films as good as it was on my old TV still using VGA or would i have to get a high teck tv card or neither? Isit the screen being bigger that means i will be able to see the bad quality more because its bigger?

I don't remember what kind of upsizing filter the MX-440 has. Resizing filters have gotten better over time so a new graphics card may look better.

Be sure to turn on the deblocking filters in Divx and Xvid. That will help reduce the macroblock artifacts of overcompressed videos.

Did you view any of the HD videos from apple or stage6? How did they look?