Video question

[Videoman22]

I am connecting a streaming device to a dvd recorder using a hdmi to av connector since dvd recorder don't have hdmi input. No matter if I connect recorder to tv using av cables or hdmi via av to hdmi converter picture is a little blurry . How can I fix this? Do I need to get dvd recorder with standard to hd upscaleing? Any help would greatly be appreciated.

[jagabo]

DVDs are standard definition video (720x480 NTSC, 720x576 PAL, at best; and the analog signal you're recording has even lower horizontal resolution). If you're recording high definition HDMI the DVD recording will not be as sharp as the source.

[Vidd]

hdmi to av connector

Whenever I used digital to analog converters I always got a blurry and and washed out picture.

I don't know what streaming service you are using, but maybe you can try a streaming device that has native RCA analog out. Maybe a Blu-ray player with streaming capabilities or some kind of android box.


But that being said, watching a DVD on a large HDTV can result in a blurry picture. Did you try to watch the DVD on a PC without maximizing the video or watching it on a standard CRT TV to see if it is blurry?

[Videoman22]

No I'm not watching a dvd. I was looking at video from streaming device basicly routed through dvd recorder using a hdmi to av converter. . After some research and more thought I think my hdmi toav converter may be going bad cause before when I have done this picture lost some sharpness as expected going from hd to sd but there wasn't any blurriness.

[netmask56]

Capture card in the PC and record to hdd

[jagabo]

Poor deinterlacing of the composite video?

[Videoman22]

What do mean? Jagabo

[jagabo]

I am connecting a streaming device to a dvd recorder using a hdmi to av connector... picture is a little blurry

Poor deinterlacing of the composite video?

What do mean? Jagabo

The output of the "hdmi to av" converter is interlaced. To view that on a modern progressive display it has to be deinterlaced.

[Videoman22]

How do you deinterlace it?

[jagabo]

Most players will deinterlace on the fly.