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Originally Posted by krknspock
Hi Adu, yeah I getting that sorted out. The dvds are looking MUCH better than in the beginning still, I am ALWAYS one to listen to good advise! Let 'er rip! |
SETUP/VIDEO
TV Aspect: 16:9
TV Type: Try Standard (Direct View) rather than LCD. (Use whichever looks better.)
AV ENHANCER: OFF
FUNCTIONS/PICTURE MENU
Picture Mode: USER
Video Output Mode: 480p is the only resolution that seems to have correct color decoding. The player does pretty decent scaling to 720p and 1080i though (better than many other players I've seen), so the picture may look sharper and more HD with 720p or 1080i. If accurate color is your highest priority, then I'd say use 480p. If detail is more important, then I'd recommend trying 720p or 1080i, and using whichever gives you the best detail and the crispest looking motion. I've detected motion blurring with 1080i that doesn't seem to be present with 480p or 720p on at least one display. I can't be entirely sure if it's the player or display that's to blame though. So I'd try both 720p & 1080i, and use whichever looks better on your display.
Transfer Mode: AUTO1 (Some 30fps made for TV content, such as
Friends may possibly look better with AUTO2.)
HD Picture Enhancer: This control seems to do a very nice job of sharpening fine details in the 720p/1080i modes without adding ringing or edge-enhancement. So it may work better than using the Sharpness control on your display. I like it set to 1 or 2.
HDMI Color Space: YCbCr 4:4:4
FUNCTIONS/PICTURE MODE/USER/PICTURE ADJUSTMENTS
Contrast: -7
Brightness: 0 (default)
Color: -7
Gamma: 0 (default)
Depth Enhancer: Haven't played with this. But some seem to like it's effect. I've left it at 0 the default so far.
MPEG DNR: 0 (default)
FUNCTIONS/DISPLAY MODE
The quality of the zooming on this player leaves something to be desired, so I keep all the automatic and manual zooming options turned off, and just use the zoom options on the TV (when I want them).
4:3 Aspect: For 720p/1080i: Use NORMAL to stretch 4:3 DVDs to fill the whole screen (people will look slightly squashed), and use SHRINK if you want them to display pillarboxed with correct 4:3 aspect ratio. (If your TV has zoom options for 720p/1080i, and you want to use that to zoom 4:3 DVDs to remove the pillarboxing, then use whichever setting, NORMAL or SHRINK, gives you the least distortion when using the TV's zoom feature.)
For 480p: Use NORMAL, and use the zoom options on your display to fit the picture to the screen the way you want.
Just Fit Zoom: The options on this change, depending on whether you're viewing Fullscreen (4:3) or Anamorphic Widescreen (16:9) DVDs. For Fullscreen DVDs I set this to 4:3 STANDARD. For Anamorphic DVDs I use 16:9 STANDARD. Both settings will be remembered by the player.
Manual Zoom: x1.00. PQ will deteriorate noticebly if this is changed.
SOME DVDS THAT SCALE PRETTY NICELY
Live Action
Chronicles of Riddick
LOTR: ROTK
Femme Fatale
Fifth Element (Ultimate Ed.)
Hulk
Jurassic Park 3 (the preponderance of darker scenes may be a little rough on LCD though)
King Kong (2005) (Level of detail could be better, but otherwise this looks pretty good.)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Resident Evil (Superbit)
Sinbad & the Eye of the Tiger (a little grainy in some FX shots, but nice color on LCD)
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow
Star Wars: ANH, ESB and AOTC
Ultraviolet (faces look blurry in some scenes, and there's visible edge enhancement in a few shots, but otherwise this looks good)
Underworld (Superbit)
Underworld Evolution
Animated
Appleseed
The Corpse Bride
Disney's Dinosaur
Final Fantasy 7
Finding Nemo
Ice Age
The Incredibles
Monsters, Inc.
Robots
Shrek 2
Titan AE
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodust (Also rather grainy and noticeable artifacts in a few scenes, so there are probably other examples of anime that look much better than this.)
Wizards
B&W
Man in the White Suit (1.33AR)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 1 (1.33)
Day the Earth Caught Fire (2.35AR)
Plan 9 from Outer Space
More suggestions.