Poor Picture Quality on new 55" Mits

[HDMan]

Just puchased a 55" Mits HDTV. When they hooked it up it looked terrible. Some BS then off to BH. Picked up Pace box, hooked up and still all my channels are fuzzy and not clear except for higher channels, movies, etc. Great with DVD! How and can it be fixed. Or is this it. If so its back to the BB with the Mits and back to my Proscan. Pleae help, have 20 days and counting on return policy. :(

[SketchEtch]

It depends on what you mean by bad picture. Obviously when you blow standard cable up (and expand it, stretch it, etc) it will be low quality and you will notice more.

I have a 55" Mits Diamond Series and am ecstatic with it. If DVD's and HD channels look good, it's obviously not the TV. You might just need to adjust to SD and regular cable on the big screen.

[CANDY76MAN]

on my DVR box from BHN some of the lower number analog channels look horrible...but they look ok on my pace box or just through the coax on the tv tuner.

if your going from a 36" or less tv too a big screen like that then it deffinantly won't look as good as your used too on a smaller screen for the reason stretchetch said...but it shouldn't be as bad as you make it sound...edges will be a little fuzzy and there will be some noise to the image on sd stuff compared to dvd...don't try to compare it to hd though...you'll just be dissapointed...lol

[bdraw]

I also have a Mitsu 55" Diamond.
You about summed it up, but you are not alone, most HDTV's are like this. There are very few that look good with SD. I think it is as simple as what it is built to do.

But mostly it is that you never knew how bad it was before, that is why my sig say ignorance is bliss. The bottom line is that your new TV wil show how bad the picture was before. Don't forget that you are really blowing up the size of the picture. If you take a picture with a digital camera that is 2Mega Pixel. it looks great as a 4x6 but blow the same pix up to 8x10 and it will look bad. Sd is 0.3Mega pixels, HDTV 1080i is 2MegaPixels.

Personally I just don't watch SD anymore.

[GreggLoewen]

Mitsubishi makes GREAT sets and I highly recommend them.

Not sure what your problems are: crappy signal going it? Poor cabling? Interferance? Poor convergence?

Anyways, you have a great set...now you have to start tweeking with it to get it to shine,

Best wishes,

Gregg Loewen

[passedpawn]

How and can it be fixed. Or is this it.

Can't. That's it.

Weird thing is, DVDs start out with the same resolution as the shows shown on cable. Analog cable, by its analag nature, looks bad because of the corruption picked up on its way to your house. Digital cable suffers from overcompression issues.

Since DVDs contain significant compression, I don't know why digital cable is screwed up. For recorded material, I guess maybe the recording could have been subpar (i.e., if old Mash reruns were recorded on some poor tape format, it would never look good).

I would gladly pay for a digital cable service that only provided 50 channels uncompressed (or with lossless compression!).

[mikeymo]

Just puchased a 55" Mits HDTV. When they hooked it up it looked terrible. Some BS then off to BH. Picked up Pace box, hooked up and still all my channels are fuzzy and not clear except for higher channels, movies, etc. Great with DVD! How and can it be fixed. Or is this it. If so its back to the BB with the Mits and back to my Proscan. Pleae help, have 20 days and counting on return policy. :(

Did you get your problem resolved? Does your DVD player output 480p?