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I found this board while doing a Google search for forums dealing with video and am looking for an informed opinion.I recently aquired an NEC 42mp2 plasma monitor.
While the DVDs look just stunning the images from my directv receiver look like a second or third genration video tape and this is with an s-video feed from the directv box to the screen. This is most notable when watching channels like HGTV. One sugestion I have heard was to go with a larger dish. I was wondering if a newer receiver or overly expensive cables might be of any help?
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The image quality may have nothing to do with your equipment, or DirecTV's. The starting point is quality of the feed from the providers. DirecTV has a website. Maybe there is a customer support address you can pose this question to.
The problems I have seen with these kind of systems are generally more related to pixelation issues than outright fuzziness. I highly doubt an expensive cable will make a noticeable difference--perhaps it is the receiver that is at fault. Keep in mind, however, that the picture from the Directv feed will likely never come anywhere near the quality of a DVD input, particularly on a high resolution display such as yours. Have you considered an HD satellite system?Todd
not all receivers are built alike....i was surprised to see just how bad the picture was coming from a Mitsubishi DirectTV receiver my mother just had installed with her new Sony 36" Wega.
I have a Sony A55 receiver and the picture via S-Video is very good! hardly any compression anomalies....
if you are talking interference, then cables and proximity WILL make a difference.... if you are talking anomalies such as compression artifacts and other processing issues then the receiver does make a difference!
You must clarify what the issues are in the picture you are getting.
Sam
Depending on your area and provider, digital cable can be better. But it ultimately depends on the feed. HBO on my digital cable looks good, but DVD is better.
The images are blurry and lacking detail especially images in the background. Faces can end up looking like a blur of pink. No artifacts to speak of. At first thought it might be caused from strecthing the picture out to fill the whole screen but putting the set in 4:3 mode almost no differnece.The cable is only about a meter long. Now I must state that channels like HBO do not have the same degree of fuzziness but it is still there.
I had thought that changing the cable from composite to s-video would help but this was not the case. I also used the s-video cable on the dvd to see if it was a cable issue but the dvd looked just fine.
It's not your satellite box, it's not your cables....it's Directv's fault. On many channels, but not all, excessive compression is used. As more and more channels are added, bandwidth becomes a more precious commodity. I'm told that Echostar is somewhat better in this regard.
Also, some channels use filters to make certain personalities look less aged. CBS and NBC use this on their national news broadcasts so that Dan Rather and Tom Brogaw look a little smoother, less wrinkled... really! Look for yourself and you'll see when they switch from the studio to a live field report.
Premium channels like HBO, etc. use little or none. Why? Because you're paying extra for them and they know viewers will be more critical.
What to do? Complain, and keep complaining.
I wonder.....what would get more results:
1) Complaining to DirecTv about their compression ?
- or -
2) Complaining to my Iguana for crapping on the carpet ?
Either way, I bet the results are the same....sh!ty picture, sh!ty carpet.
Sorry, I just had to vent....
don't be coy, tell us the make and model of the directv receiver
and the cables.
did you ground the feed coax as per instructions?
did you install the dish or did some bozo do it for "free"
what is your average signal strength (this has nothing to do with image quality, I just want to know)
most likely: the NEC 42" is a very high quality monitor, and it shows that the source being broadcast by HGTV is crap.not kidding.
Well at the moment all my equipment is stuffed in the bedroom with six tons of furniture while I anm getting my floors refinished so I can't get the model number. It is a Hughes and it is several yaers old. Since one of the boys gave it to me for christmas I can assume it is on the 'economical' side. :)Grounding? I must be a bad boy cause I was the bozo who did the free installation. I will look into how to ground the cable.
Signal strengh is in the high 90's
Cable is one of the $40 monster cables.
sounding more like an HGTV issue... I believe Hughes makes most of the innerts for directtv units anyway...It is either the quality of the broadcast or the receiver... I'm in San Diego and the image quality i get from HGTV is comparable to CNN and Headline News... not the best, but still pretty good! best is the PPV and HBO channels... Worst, is my local feed of Fox Channel 6... they have other issues.
SamM
P.S. grounding of the dish would potentially cause a ground-loop, but if you are not grounding the dish, then i can guarantee that is not the issue.... plus you are using S-Video and not modulating the channels from Coax, right? that means you should experience simmilar interference from any channel from the dish if it were a ground-loop problem.
Hummmmmmm... I was looking at HGTV also and don't seems to have the same fuzzies.... what part of the country do you live in and also you may want to ask DirecTV what transponder HGTV is on and check other channels on the same transponder to see if you get similar results...I live in Southern California and HGTV comes in fine.... i supposed it could be the tuner/decoder in your receiver also. What make/mdeol of reciever do you have?
Sam
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