Anyone have an opinion of the best way to view DIRECTV SD Service? I'm sure most will say on a CRT SDTV, but then what do I do about OTA HD channels? I'm trying to figure out a solution for watching DIRECTV SD service and HD sources like OTA all on one TV, and I thought one of the old rare CRT HDTV's would be the solution, until I hooked the DIRECTV receiver to the CRT HDTV and realized the picture looks worse than on a regular CRT SDTV. I finally learned that this is because of two things: 1. DIRECTV SD service outputs in 480i, which normally wouldn't look any worse than 480i OTA, but does because it's MPEG-2 super compressed, and 2. The CRT HDTV, although being a CRT, still deinterlaces and converts the 480i signal to 480p but doesn't have enough data within the overly-compressed satellite signal to convert to and display in 480p to look as good as regular OTA 480i.
My question is, does anyone know anything to do about this? It would be great to watch DIRECTV SD service, OTA HD channels, Blue Ray, etc. all on one TV and it all look right. The CRT HDTV automatically converts 480i to 480p no matter what, with no way for it not to.
Do you think running DIRECTV SD service through an HD receiver would help at all?
What about some kind of special external graphics processor?
Anything? Thanks a lot!
My question is, does anyone know anything to do about this? It would be great to watch DIRECTV SD service, OTA HD channels, Blue Ray, etc. all on one TV and it all look right. The CRT HDTV automatically converts 480i to 480p no matter what, with no way for it not to.
Do you think running DIRECTV SD service through an HD receiver would help at all?
What about some kind of special external graphics processor?
Anything? Thanks a lot!