New HD monitor not gettin impressive 1080p - why?

[bazpaul]

Hey guys,

After a long time i decided to fork out and pay for a lovely new HD monitor.


I saw the results of HD movies on a friends computer and wanted the same. After receiving the monitor I only used VGA and had crappy results. but today my new DVI-HDMI cable came in the post and i hooked up my monitor via HDMI for the first time.

I'm not too impressed however - I played a BD rip of Lord of of the rings that i have;

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x800 23.976fps 2102kbps

using media player classic with the mega K-lite codec pack installed. i went of forums and decided to download the DivX h264 codecs but it looks the same.

What i see: The film looks blotchy - its hard to say but during some scenes of motion the image can be a bit blocthy. i was expecting crystal clear video from a movie with such a high bitrate!!!! Now the movie is totally watchable but not as impressive as i would like.

What can i do? any settings i can change?

Help!!!!

[bazpaul]

Ok i just uploaded a screenshot

[poisondeathray]

I'm not too impressed however - I played a BD rip of Lord of of the rings that i have;

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x800 23.976fps 2102kbps

using media player classic with the mega K-lite codec pack installed. i went of forums and decided to download the DivX h264 codecs but it looks the same.

What i see: The film looks blotchy - its hard to say but during some scenes of motion the image can be a bit blocthy. i was expecting crystal clear video from a movie with such a high bitrate!!!! Now the movie is totally watchable but not as impressive as i would like.

What can i do? any settings i can change?

But it's not high bitrate. The real blu-ray will have more than 10x the bitrate. Typically they will average 25-35Mb/s. Yours is 2Mb/s

[fritzi93]

A "Rip" is an exact copy, no matter how many people misuse the term.

What you have is a dreadful re-encode. No one who halfway knows what he's doing would use such a low bitrate.
What can you do? Play something decent to test your monitor.

Just telling you the truth. Good luck and welcome to the forum.

[bazpaul]

ok cheers thanks

where can i get "something decent" to test my monitor?

if i do a screenshot of the "decent" video will that help?

Cheers

[bazpaul]

ok i just went on to DEMO WORLD where you can get full HD 1080p demo's i downloaded a BBC one, here's a screenshot.

it MUST be some settings in my media player classic - any ideas?

[DB83]

ok cheers thanks

where can i get "something decent" to test my monitor?

if i do a screenshot of the "decent" video will that help?

Cheers

No.

Read the replies. HD is all about bit-rate. You can post a mediainfo report about the sample but if you really want to get 'some decent' play a real blu-ray disk and not some re-encode.

[bazpaul]

ok i get what your saying!!

I just dont realise why I have seen better quality on another computer and less quality on mine for the same vid!!!

apart from bitrate - is there a way to maximise the visual quality of a monitor/graphics card??????

Thanks

[DB83]

I assume your graphics card IS set for 1920*1080 output (you mentioned VGA before)

[bazpaul]

yeh ofcourse i have an Nvidia nvs 290 graphics card

i have HDMI now!!

[poisondeathray]

I just dont realise why I have seen better quality on another computer and less quality on mine for the same vid!!!

Are you sure it was the exact same video ?

Because a 2.1Mb/s 1920x800 video of LOTR (or any "regular" movie) will look like crap on any display with any processing

[DB83]

I only asked since it is so easy to over-look the obvious. Your old monitor probably had a different resolution and when you plugged in the new one you might have expected a miracle. You certainly did by plugging a VGA cable in to it.

Just because you have a HD card and a hdmi cable and a HD monitor all must be talking the same language.

So double-check the output settings on the card. Does the monitor require any drivers that you have not installed/setup ?

[turk690]

I'm not too impressed however - I played a BD rip of Lord of of the rings that i have;

Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x800 23.976fps 2102kbps

What i see: The film looks blotchy - its hard to say but during some scenes of motion the image can be a bit blocthy. i was expecting crystal clear video from a movie with such a high bitrate!!!! Now the movie is totally watchable but not as impressive as i would like.

For full HD, 2102kb/s is NOT "such a high bitrate". "Such a high bitrate" would be between 15x to 20x that (30mb/s to 40mb/s).
I fully expect ANY h264 video 1920x1080 at 2mb/s to look crappy, blotchy, pixelated, etc. on ANY monitor connected to ANY VGA card with ANY HDMI or component cable.

[TimA-C]

Have you calibrated your new monitor at all or are you still using the default settings?

[lordsmurf]

HD is all about bit-rate.

HD = high definition = high resolution = 720p / 1080p

The bitrate is what keeps the quality of resolution from degrading, however.
So close, though not really the same.