poor picture quality

[pajer]

I currently have a sony kp-51ws500 with a dish network 501 dishplayer receiver with s-video going in, i added a dish 6000 hdtv receiver with component outputs to t.v. the 501 s-video and the 6000 sd with s video out seem to have just as goos if not better picture than the 6000 with component out. am i doing something wrong. i was thinking of getting the 921 with the hdvi outputto see if that makes any difference. thanks, pajer

 

[Broadband Lab Rat]

Picture quality

SD from satellite will usually not look better when switching from S video to component feeds from the sat receiver to the display.... in many cases it's reported to look better using the S video inputs for SD from sats. The limiting item is the SD picture quality from the satellite, not the type of feed between the sat receiver and the display.

 

[DarrellP]

It depends on the scaler of your TV vs the scaler in the 6000. I use a projector on a 110" diagonal screen and dropped all of my Dish SD programming because:

1) It looks absolutely horrid blown up to 110"
2) After watching HD, there's no going back.

Now it's only DVD, HD or a little bit of SD digital.