Bit of a noob question regarding UHD

NorthstaNder · 11 Jul 2018 at 22:58

Hi,

Just upgraded from an HD (1080p) set to a 4k UHD set etc and I cannot help but be a bit underwhelmed by the HD picture.

The 4k picture is corking, but my old HD set has the better 1080p picture. Is this purely down to the picture being upscaled? Anything I can tweak to improve it?

Thanks in advance.
Jonathan

NorthstaNder · 12 Jul 2018 at 08:01

Yes, gone from 43 to 49 so that probably doesn't help either.

NorthstaNder · 12 Jul 2018 at 08:40

I'll have to check. I'm just watching a blu ray and it looks really good. Its the HD TV channels I'm a bit underwhelmed with (BBC, ITV etc)

I'll have a look at the settings on my virgin media V6 box as well.

NorthstaNder · 19 Jul 2018 at 00:20

So if I set the V6 box to output in 1080p will the TV then upscale that to 2160?

NorthstaNder · 19 Jul 2018 at 15:59

Ok thank you. I'm sure I tried setting the V6 to 1080p and the TV then reverted to 1080p as well.
There must a setting I'm missing somewhere.
TV is a.Sony KD49XE8004

NorthstaNder · 19 Jul 2018 at 16:34

Am I right in thinking...

Set V6 box to 2160p and it will do the upscaling?

Set V6 to 1080p and the TV will upscale to 2160p bit still report the resolution as 1080p when the info button is pressed?

NorthstaNder · 19 Jul 2018 at 18:12

And the second option is the way to go?

NorthstaNder · 19 Jul 2018 at 18:39

VincentHanna said:
Depends on the TV, but I'd trust my £2400 OLED to have better upscaling than a cheap virgin media box.

Sony KD49XE8004. But only £645

NorthstaNder · 19 Jul 2018 at 21:13

I've found the option I needed on the V6 box. Basically I selected every resolution which means the V6 will let the TV do the scaling so illI see how that looks

NorthstaNder · 19 Jul 2018 at 21:18

5 mins later and it already looks better!

Thanks all for pointing me in the right direction