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smjohns · 24-01-2007, 14:15

Our TW box is connected to our Hitachi 42PD9700 plasma using HDMI and the picture quality for both SD and HD channels are fantastic. Obviously older programs will not look as good as the recent stuff but that goes without saying. We have noticed that the feed from the TW box is better than the inbuilt freeview tuner. We have it set to 720wide (just because of the blurry menu issue with 1080i). Our DVD player also upscales to 1080i and assuming the DVD is a good quality film (e.g. films released in the last 5-10yrs) then the picture quality is fantastic on this too.

I must admit that I have always found LCD pictures to be too harsh and highlight any flaws in pictures and in this respect unless you have a very good and true HD feed the picture will never look as good as it can on a Plasma. Also you have the refresh issues with faster moving images too.

In respect of the upscaling/downscaling, this is done in the TV Drive box primarily but then also in the TV. If you set your box to 720p then it will output in 1280x720 and 1080i is 1920x1080. Obviously if your TV screen is not this resolution then it will need to upscale/downscale appropriately too. Some TV's are better at doing this than others. If your TV is not that good at this then it may be worth setting the TV Drive to the resolution that best suits your TV's.

24-01-2007, 14:15	#15
smjohns Inactive Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 9	Re: Newbie not happy with tvdrive Our TW box is connected to our Hitachi 42PD9700 plasma using HDMI and the picture quality for both SD and HD channels are fantastic. Obviously older programs will not look as good as the recent stuff but that goes without saying. We have noticed that the feed from the TW box is better than the inbuilt freeview tuner. We have it set to 720wide (just because of the blurry menu issue with 1080i). Our DVD player also upscales to 1080i and assuming the DVD is a good quality film (e.g. films released in the last 5-10yrs) then the picture quality is fantastic on this too. I must admit that I have always found LCD pictures to be too harsh and highlight any flaws in pictures and in this respect unless you have a very good and true HD feed the picture will never look as good as it can on a Plasma. Also you have the refresh issues with faster moving images too. In respect of the upscaling/downscaling, this is done in the TV Drive box primarily but then also in the TV. If you set your box to 720p then it will output in 1280x720 and 1080i is 1920x1080. Obviously if your TV screen is not this resolution then it will need to upscale/downscale appropriately too. Some TV's are better at doing this than others. If your TV is not that good at this then it may be worth setting the TV Drive to the resolution that best suits your TV's.