Problems playing Bluray on PC onto Panny 42PZ85...

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Hey guys,
Recently got a new PC, with a Ati 4870 gfx card and a LG Blueray drive. At the moment I've connect it to my tv with dvi-hdmi converter and have it setup as a second desktop 1920x1080. I'm using PowerDVD at the moment to play bluray movies, however the picture quality looks awful! In panning scenes somethings seem to blur together, and in other a lot of the picture looks well 'painted' like on canvas, its really strange! Main two I'm using for comparison are Planet Earth and Band of Brothers, both with generally look crap! I've look through all the settings I can on the computer and nothing seems to change it! I plugged in my mates PS3 into the TV and played the two series and the difference was huge! Much crisper, glorious HD images! What am I doing wrong with my PC?? Any help welcome!!

Also not sure if this is the right forum? Software or GFX maybe? again suggestions welcome lol.
 
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These are my settings with a PZ80 and 3650, constantly tweaking though.
In CCC.
Colour - Bright = 7 Contrast = 115.
Avivo. Let app decide, Edge enhance = 10. De-noise = 30
In PDVD, create new profile "HD". Set bright +20, con -2, Sat +2.
 
Thanks for the input Katoom, I had a look at all those settings and none of them fixed the problem! Also I've just noticed that when playing the blurays on my LCD monitor I have the same problems, so I'm guessing its some sort of decoding problem?
 
You could try different gfx drivers. I always stay away from messing with the picture in any software. The TV's settings can do all you need.
 
try installing AnyDVD HD.set your tv as primary display (without secondary display connected) and update powerdvd.
 
I have the same Panny as you and will be adding a LG drive tomorrow for BR and HD dvd discs. At the moment I have 5 episodes of planet earth as mkv's which I am playing through wmp11 using the coreavc codec and I am pretty impressed with the overall quality of 1080P very reach out and touch it, although as I say I have yet to try a proper disc, I will post back tomorrow if it is bad for me!
 
I've got AnyDVD installed, and I've tried setting the tv as the primary and only display but nothing makes any difference. It still looks crap quality! Are there any other programs that I can use other then Powerdvd to try and play blurays? I've install WinDVD but the trial version won't play bluray!!
 
Total media theatre supposed to be good.

@ Holwill Can you post your settings when you've fitted the drive, would be really helpful.
Thanks.
 
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Well tbh all I have set up so far is 3 hotkey's

1) open cats
2)set@24hz
3)set@50hz

to swap between normal avi's etc and blue ray and mkv's.

Set the pixel option to rgb studio limited.

The plasma is only a week old, so all tv ,contrast, brightness is at 50% as it was advised to do this for the first 200hrs, so because of that all the other controls in CCC are at default. To my eyes at the moment, it looks bloody briliant. So after the first 200hrs have passed, if things can be improved upon with some tweaking I will be well chuffed.
 
What do you mean by Set the pixel option to rgb studio limited?
I use mine with VMC and found that the colour and contrast were off.
Also, it seams like there is to much processing going on with the picture, I get a better picture from the in-built free view than my DTV card.
60hz gives less flicker for me and 24hz Blu-ray just makes the sound lag slightly.
 
Katoom said:
What do you mean by Set the pixel option to rgb studio limited?
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In cats 8.11 there is an option of something like "hdtv options" on the avforums someone probably who knows a damn sight more than me advises using this setting as the black and white balance is better.
Katoom said:
I use mine with VMC and found that the colour and contrast were off.
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I have played AVI and DVD's through VMC and it looks ok to me, but as I said earlier I am running brightness and contrast at 50% during the running in period.
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Also, it seams like there is to much processing going on with the picture, I get a better picture from the in-built free view than my DTV card.
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I had a win nova T-500 but it was a complete pos picture quality was lousy and it broke up and froze more often than not. I have found that my Humax PVR connected via a quality scart running RGB gives a slightly better picture quality than the built in Panny freeview tuner.
Katoom said:
60hz gives less flicker for me and 24hz Blu-ray just makes the sound lag slightly.
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50hz is fine for all non BR and MKV for me and when running either of those in 24hz I am not getting any sync issue's apart from Iroman which is Power DVD 8 issue, from what I have read.
 
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