HELP! DVD clarity on 37 inch LCD Flat Screen..

[Superman1314]

I just bought a 37 inch Flat Panel LCD TV. Blu Ray Movies look awesome (300 anyone?) HD Games look sweet, Everything looks fantastic. I have my PS3 hooked up using a HDMI 500 Monster Cable, and a Coaxle Cable for my X360 (The red blue yellow green yada yada cord). Both HD cables. Here is where the problem is. When I tried regular DVD's on my X360 and my PS3 when playing on my HDTV they don't look very sharp, in fact, they look worse than on a normal TV. The people and such on screen at certain distances have weird pixel distortions around their edges. It's just a bit fuzzy. When watching a space scene (think opening to Star Wars or Superman) the black of space actually shows pixels or something moving around...distorted.

Is this just the not so great picture quality of DVD coming through? Or are HD TV's just not good at displaying regular DVD's?

As I said, everything else lookes phenominal.

 

[Fledermaus]

IT might be that you're playing non-HD media through an HD cable. Try playing them through S-video or Composite cable (Red White Yellow).

 

[Superman1314]

IT might be that you're playing non-HD media through an HD cable. Try playing them through S-video or Composite cable (Red White Yellow).

Thanks. i will try that.

 

[L.A.]

on your 360 make sure you change your display settings to your tv native resolution

 

[imdaly]

Just out of curiosity, which color cables do you have plugged into the TV?

If you have the yellow plugged in, and have not switched the switch on the base of the video cable where it plugs into the XBOX360, then you're probably not watching in HD.

Check this and also make sure the settings of your XBOX360 are actually set to a HD resolution.

 

[SPIDER-MAN-ROX]

I encounter the same problems sometimes with my regular upscaling dvd player.

For example if I had a Blu-Ray player hooked up to a 1080i tv would I still get the same resolution as I would if I had a Blu-Ray player hooked up to a 1080p resolution tv? Although you can change the resolution settings in a Blu-Ray player to match the resolution of the tv that you have would there still be a significant difference in picture quality?