Why Do Some LCD's Look Grainy/Blurry For Some Games?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070110020215AAW0sSg
Can someone please explain to me why LCD's are supposed to have such better picture quality than regular televisions? Cause I just got a 32 inch Sylvania LCD HDTV for Christmas, and a LOT of the stuff I've tried to watch on it really looks like crap. In fact, it seems to me like for watching most things, my regular old crap tv produced a much smoother picture!For instance, I have an Xbox 360, and the other day I tried to view a picture slideshow on it. When my xbox used to be plugged into my old standard def tube tv, which is the same size (minus the extra widescreen space on the LCD), the pictures looked great, really clear, good colors. Now, on the LCD, they all come up looking kinda pixelated, ya know? Like the colors aren't really all that smooth, they don't seem to blend into eachother seamlessly like on the old tv, and the image is kinda grainy looking. It looks almost like a painting or a drawing of a picture, as opposed to a real life picture!
Is High Definition the only format that is actually watchable on an HDTV LCD? I mean, I've tried watching standard definition widescreen DVDs too, and they all look really grainy, and if you get up close to the screen you can really see how the little patches of pixellated color don't quite blend really well. And an old Sopranos Season 1 DVD looked nearly unwatchable, it was so pixellated and blurry. Does my HDTV just kinda suck, or is this a compromise with ALL LCD televisions? Cause of the pixels?
I've also been to tons of stores and seen lots of these tv's, and they all seem to have the same image problems--even the HD channels in the stores come out looking grainy still. Even all the supposedly high end Sony's and Auos things had the same problem as my tv. Is this all HD is? Cause it doesn't look crystal clear to me, anywhere that I've seen it. I also pressed one of the store guys to come up with an answer. They had a basketball game playing in HD, and it was so pixely up close you could almost see little whiteish pixel silhouettes around the players. I pointed out all of the little pixel blurs on all the HDTV's, and after much arguing, he said it was the best I was going to get...
He did show me a Blu Ray version of some animated film on HDTV, and that looked awesome. As do all of my Xbox games, when I play them on my HDTV. But is that really all it's good for?
Also, are rear projection HDTV's any smoother looking than LCD HDTV's? I really can't stand how phony this thing is making everything I try to watch look. Any superior knowledge or opinions would be appreciated, as I'm thinking of returning the tv soon, or trading it in for a rear projection HDTV.
Thanks guys.
Is from that link, and the thread's title is edited from the title in the link since it has to do with my 360 I connect the TV to, and I was agreeing with most if not all that he's said. Even when the source is HD and not SD, the crappiness of some LCD's show fairly well from up close or a distance. Mine is a 26" Sony BRAVIA, and I made the distance sitting away to be 10". Besides the fact it looks nice for its design, and nice where it is, and makes the room look nice, the picture is pixelated (not saying it has pixels which it obviously does) but people should know what I mean. You can see the jaggedness and it's annoying.
Why do I not see this on my 1280 x 1024 CRT monitor, which has fairly around the same amount of pixels as my new LCD TV? I can be 2 feet from this 17" monitor and I will be hardpressed to start even noticing pixels, but from 10 feet away on a 26" LCD TV, having a 1366 x 768 resolution I can clearly see the effect the pixels are making. Is it because it's a 720p, and this CRT monitor is interlaced (I believe all CRT's are but this is for sure, because up close I can see the scan lines going from left to right/bottom to top) making it...I don't know...720i? Regardless, I find it hard to believe 2 displays (26" LCD TV and 17" CRT monitor) having around the same number of pixels, one being p or progressive, while the other is i or interlaced seem incredibly different, with the interlaced looking far better (ironically, because progressive is supposed to be >>>> interlaced) though when I look at my laptop screen, which is a 15.6" LCD screen, that supposedly also has a 1366 x 768 resolution AS THE LCD TV, it looks better than both displays I've talked about.
WTF?! Logically this is supposed to be no better looking than my TV, though why does my TV look like crap? I can stand 4 feet away from it and I'd rather look at a wall. It is pixelated as hell to be called "HD" and it is not because the source is bad. Tekken 6 runs clearly (meaning, obviously, because it sure as hell isn't clear) in 720p yet looks light years better on a CRT monitor that has around the same amount of resolution as the TV the game looks crappy on. My ass. I'm not sure why there's this gaping difference. Is it because I'm comparing 15-17" displays to a 26" one? I'm not sure. I do know I've went super-up-close to ALL monitors so the size thing shouldn't matter. My TV shouldn't look so much different for being a mere 10 inches bigger, but it does.
Well, thanks for reading. All this week I've been thinking hard about TV's and getting TV's (for my console, because I don't have blu-ray players/HD programming).
Man, is this really "HD"? How old is 720p anyway? 😆 Don't get me wrong, I know I've had some level of "HD" in my place always since this Sony Trinitron CRT monitor has been with me for years and it's 1280 x 1024 which definitely qualifies to be HD (720p, or 1366 x 768 has less overall pixels), yet, I've yet to see a level of HD that is worse than on my 26" Sony BRAVIA. It is really disappointing, especially since this same TV was nominated as being the best or second best 26" LCD's out there that you can buy. Maybe I am hallucinating, but I doubt it. My eyes are good and young, and I doubt me seeing crap, and grainy texture on one screen and not on two other screens with the same resolution means they need to get checked.