Non HD Quality on a Plasma TV

[sbsi]

On a big screen Plasma TV, does it suppose to look pixel, kind of blurry on non-HD channels.

I am not sure it is the TV set or the picture signal.



The tv is a Samsung Plasma 50 inch

[dantheman77]

when I watch non hd I do so on my smaller 27 inch( I think) non hd tv. like you my pictyure is not real good.

[old corps]

I have 4 HD Tvs & a HD projector, 24"-120". PQ for SD varies from acceptable to lousy. Hardly ever watch SD, can't stand it!

Ed

[Jim S.]

MPEG4 SD is passable on most of the channels (the few that I still have to watch that way.) Heck, I'll even stretch it once in a while (only if it's letterboxed -- if it's full-screen 4:3, I watch it that way.) MPEG2 SD, on the other hand -- some of the channels used to be so bad, they should've been forbidden from selling them! (The ironic thing is, the MPEG4 channels are supposedly down-sampled to 480x480 to make them easier to compress or something. As far as I know, the MPEG2 channels are still 640 horizontally.)

[Lord_Vader]

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Just my opinion... I think it depends on the TV and the native resolution too. It you are native 720, then they will look better. If it has to scale up to native 1080p, then it will look worse. I originally bought a vizio 1080p tv before I got HD and the SD was really bad. I replaced it with an HP 720 of the same size and it was better. Could have been that the HP was a better TV, but I think it was the native resolution. On my larger Samsung, the SD isn't that bad, but you can really tell that its SD and not HD.

[GaryPen]

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On a big screen Plasma TV, does it suppose to look pixel, kind of blurry on non-HD channels.

I am not sure it is the TV set or the picture signal.

The tv is a Samsung Plasma 50 inch

Dish SD channels look like crap due to over-compression. The larger the display, the more noticeable the crap.

However, there are some things that can be done to reduce the crapiness. If you haven't changed any of the settings in the TV's "picture" menu, you need to immediately change from the torch-like setting that all brands are set to by default. It is usually called "Vivid" or "Dynamic". Change that immediately to "Standard" or "Normal" or "Neutral", something like that. Also, lower the Sharpness setting to no more than 3.

The "torch" mode and high sharpness settings can really accentuate the crap level of an SD image. You will find your HD images will look better now, too.