[mythtv-users] Optimizing Picture output

Nathan A. Smith nasa01 at comcast.net
Mon Jun 11 23:51:35 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 16:17 -0400, William Munson wrote:
> Nathan A. Smith wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Call me confused.  I have a rear projection TV that does all the way up
> > to 1080p.  It has many, many inputs -- and for this discussion, I am
> > using the DVI connection.  I have setup the resolution from X to match
> > the state TV resolution 1920x1080.  With this setup I have noticed a
> > noticeable difference between regular TV and what I see via Myth.  Since
> > I have no artist ability -- I really have a hard time describing what
> > that difference is (ie: color, contrast, brightness, interlacing, all
> > the above).  So my questions are:
> >
> > 1. As most things broadcast today are interlaced -- do I need to do
> > deinterlacing?
> >   
> Most people find deinterlacing improves picture quality quite a bit. Not 
> sure why since its interlaced source video being played on a tv that 
> expects interlaced material. The docs have a good explanation of what 
> deinterlace mode does what.
Yeah, 

I tried Bob -- and it didn't make a noticeable difference, so I turned
it back off.


> > 2. How do I match color, contrast, brightness between normal TV and
> > Myth?
> >   
> Try enabling the "xv picture controls" in setup and then use the 
> on-screen controls to adjust to your liking. See the docs for the proper 
> way to do this.
Do I have to do this for every channel?  I noticed that mythweb has a
place to save these settings, but it's listed per channel....



Thanks for taking the time to look at my quandry,

Nasa

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