Poor PS3 Visuals .. Help !

[Phat Momma Hoe]

Hola !
Bought a PS3 on Tuesday but am constantly bothered by poor visuals on it when compairing it to my 360 performance. Not only is it jaggier than a jaggy thing but the visuals just look 'below par', dont have a better way to describe it.

Pretty much expected not to notice much in the way of difference between the PS3 and 360 with the odd exception of maybe something like colour depth.

Both machines are running 720p on an LG 37LC46, the PS3 via HDMI and the 360 via VGA.

Basically just a little dissapointed with it and was hoping there was some sort of setting I've enabled (or not) during setup thats making it look so poor when compairing it against the other console.

Only played GT5, Uncharted and Resistance at the moment. Still have Ratchet & Clank, Motorstorm and Ninja Gaiden to try.

Any ideas ?

 

[Phat Momma Hoe]

Thats what Im getting at, I was expecting everything to look nice, especially in uncharted (awesome game btw). Hence the thread ....

 

[Phat Momma Hoe]

Or there's something wrong with his setup?

There are quite a few display options to tinker with on the PS3, i know you've set it to display 720p but it might be worth checking again just to make certain that 1080i is unchecked as that would cause the problems you're describing.

Other than that all i can suggest is looking at a few FAQs and determining what each option does and see how it affects your setup. I know GT5 has some aliasing issues, but uncharted is just gorgeous to look at so i imagine something is probably wrong if you're not pleased.

Just unchecked 1080i and left it on 720 and 1080p, for some reason upscaling was turned off so that wouldnt have been helping matters

However it still doesnt look right. Its so hard to explain it. Its almost like the screen is so 'sharp' that its showing up any imperfections by 100% and as a result even Uncharted is looking rather poor for jaggies as they are very prominent. As mentioned, it may have something to do with HDMI over VGA but as my 360 is a release day one so I cant compair the 2 on HDMI.

As a comparisan, I've just been playing Viking on the 360 and tested the new settings on Uncharted and taking the main playing character (not scenery etc) as an example, Viking is very smooth and believable looking with no real graphical issues where as in Uncharted the guy almost looks like he is built out of lego (ok, ott but thats how it feels at the moment).

I've no doubt that this is something to do with my setup, just frustrating as I know I shouldnt notice much between the 2 platforms what so ever.

Will check out the FAQ

*Ninja Edit*
Please dont get me wrong, Im not trying to start a flaming thread about each console, far to old to be bothered by that kind of thing. Just asking for advice as I've been dissapointed by how the PS3 is displaying on my TV at the moment. This may purely be down to my expectations rather than the hardware. I fully understand that there will be varying differences between the platform.
All I want to achieve is to get full enjoyment out of my hardware, not bothered about what badge is on the front of it or who manufactures it ... Just a gamer

 

[Phat Momma Hoe]

I don't want to sound patronizing, but i take it your tv supports 1080p?

Upscales but not true 1080p, not really sure why I've got it ticked as an option to be honest.

 

[Phat Momma Hoe]

For experimentations sake, untick everything other than 720p

[EDIT] I don't think you can untick 576i, just ignore that.

Tiss my next plan off attack (Although I cant see why it should make a difference)

 

[Phat Momma Hoe]

Messed about with most settings now, including TV settings and made things look a bit better. But coming to the conclusion that this is mostly a HMDI thing over what Im used to on VGA.

Thanks for the input people, I'm a bit happier now

 

[Phat Momma Hoe]

Firstly stop blaming the console and set you tv up properly, could be down to that as well. Get over to www.avforums.com, and in the LCD section find threads about your tv and try out some of the settings that users will have posted. Then tinker until you are happy with the picture. Not meaning to be harsh. but the tv won't have particularly amazing electronics inside, so don't ever expect it to look perfect, just try and tweak it as much as possible to get the best it can produce.

Next, you need to look up some FAQ's on setting up the PS3 properly, also check out avforums for that.

And maybe you should read the thread before jumping on me