Virgin media box on 46" bravia, picture not good

Colbaker · 13 Oct 2007 at 10:59

Hi, i have recently purchased a 46" sony Bravia tv and attached my Virgin media box to it VIA HDMI but noticed that on any other channel than the HD bbc channel the picture us not great, it is blocky and doesnt seem to handle motion very well, this is a bummer as it puts me off watching the rugby, is there some setting i need to adjust to sort it?

thanks

Nismo · 13 Oct 2007 at 11:03

SD stuff will always look slighty iffy on a HDTV, saying that we have V+ going via HDMI to a lesser brand 32" HDTV and everything looks fine on that. Slightly rougher than a CRT TV, but no real issues with blockiness even on lesser cable channels. Proper HD stuff of course looks fab.

There's a definite degree of 'getting used to it' but its hard to know if you have a genuine issue without knowing exactly what the picture looks like.

Phil99 · 13 Oct 2007 at 11:49

Try turning the contrast down a bit, that may get rid of some of the blockiness

Tesla · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:05

How far away do you sit from the TV? Try sitting further away.

kitten_caboodle · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:07

46" he'd need to sit in another room

Tesla · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:14

kitten_caboodle said:
46" he'd need to sit in another room

Not really, I would say about 3m-3.5m away from a 46" TV.

Is your TW box outputting RGB via Scart into an RGB enabled Scart socket on the TV.

kitten_caboodle · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:16

ooh, sorry Mr Literal, thought'd you'd spot the

Tesla · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:18

kitten_caboodle said:
ooh, sorry Mr Literal, thought'd you'd spot the

save it for GD.

kitten_caboodle · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:33

I'm so sorry, I hadn't realised that humour was entirely banned in here. I do apologise to the OP for the offence I have obviously caused

badbob · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:36

Reduce sharpness too. And any picture processing, auto contrast, basically everything.
HD channels should look great. I've watched SD Freeview on a 1080p and it looks good, if the channel bitrate is high.

Tesla · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:41

kitten_caboodle said:
I'm so sorry, I hadn't realised that humour was entirely banned in here. I do apologise to the OP for the offence I have obviously caused

What humour?

kitten_caboodle · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:42

point taken

*gets coat*

james.miller · 13 Oct 2007 at 14:28

i was amazed by the sd performance of my V+ box on my sony 40w. its far better than it should be really, lol