Hi there,

I have a Dell 37" LCD HDTV that is connected to a Scientific Atlantic 8300HDC provided by Time Warner. It is hooked up via a component cable.

When I access the guide and all, the text is blurry and looks like its 'not in resolution' -- sort of like running your computer monitor on a lesser than naive resolution. This happens regardless of when I'm watching HD or SD programming. The picture quality of the TV is fine, but the guide and all is slightly distorted in this sense. Even the icons used to depict the television stations are blurry and mostly unreadable.

I have already set the output of the tv to high definition capable, but maybe I'm missing something?

Any idea what could be causing this? Should it look this way or should the text be crisp?

Any advice would help. thanks.

Hi there,

I have a Dell 37" LCD HDTV that is connected to a Scientific Atlantic 8300HDC provided by Time Warner. It is hooked up via a component cable.

When I access the guide and all, the text is blurry and looks like its 'not in resolution' -- sort of like running your computer monitor on a lesser than naive resolution. This happens regardless of when I'm watching HD or SD programming. The picture quality of the TV is fine, but the guide and all is slightly distorted in this sense. Even the icons used to depict the television stations are blurry and mostly unreadable.

I have already set the output of the tv to high definition capable, but maybe I'm missing something?

Any idea what could be causing this? Should it look this way or should the text be crisp?

Any advice would help. thanks.

I suspect you have a Dell W3707C which has a wierd native resolution of 1366x768.

Then the channel guide comes up as only a 4:3 640x480....coming out on a 1920x1080 output which your TV then manipulates even more to take it down to the wierd 1366x768 resolution...so yes, it would look weird and blurry.

You might try setting the output to 720p on the 8300HDC - that might help you some as the HDTV can atleast display that (though it will probably stretch it strange - but could not hurt to try).