Problem with TV-OUT on new TV

[Zlash]

Had a 21" Sony Triniton TV and upgraded to a 36" Trinitron HDTV last weekend and I noticed when I output my divx movies to my TV that they have a pretty constant stutter with any movie I try to play which they never had before and do not have when viewed on the PC.

My video card is a AIW 7500 and I tried the s-video output and the composite and both do the same thing. Also tried different players...so it seems like it's my TV.

Seems like the screens just so big that every little imperfection is magnified on my TV, anyone experience anything similar to this?

[SupaCoopa]

I believe you got it right to some point, bigger and higher-guality TV screens tend to reveal all imprefections, especially on digitally encoded material. When I used to encode VCDs, I was watching them on a 21" TV I had back then and I was very satisfied. But then I moved on to a 32" Wega Widescreen and I couldn't watch VCD any more, as all I could see was pixels and macroblocks!

Your TV is huge in size and it's HDTV which is super-high quality compared to normal TVs. DivXs are usually not of decent quality anyway, so your nice machine just does its job well and shows you all imperfections. On the other hand the stutter you experience could originate from some options regarding the TV output of your graphics card. I have an NVidia and can't exactly tell you what to look for, but try to find an anti-flicker option or something, or set a different (higher) refresh rate for the TV output.

[Zlash]

I thought that was true and still kinda is but I noticed with nothing playing and just a background showing on TV that it stutters too. Might drag my other TV back in here just to make sure I'm not losing my mind.

[Zlash]

Figured it out, under advanced display properties for the TV screen. On the ATI "Displays" tab and under the properties for the TV there is soemthing called Pixel Dot Crawl (or something similar) and it was on frozen and I set it to standard and everything worked!