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HELP! Trouble making DVD's look good on Toshiba TV

post #1 of 12
2/3/09 at 9:58am
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About a week ago I bought a new Toshiba TV (19AV500U). This is the first LCD TV that I've bought and overall I've been very happy with it. My Problem is that I can't seem to get DVD's to look good on this TV. Here is the situation.

I initially hooked up the DVD player to the "Video" port, which I know is mainly for VCR's. The other day I went out and bought a Component Video Cable from Radioshack. I hooked that up to the "ColorStream HD" port from the ColorStream port on my Toshiba DVD player. I started playing some DVD's to see how the picture improved. Overall it was better than before, but the picture still looks bad. The images are sometimes a little blurry and not clear. If there's a lot of fast motion in a movie it seems to not handle that very well. Honestly my DVD's looked better hooked up to a Standard-Def TV. It just doesn't seem to be down-converting to 480 very well.

Here is the Component Cable I bought and the TV specs:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=2289560
http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/televisi...model=19av500u


What do people suggest I do? Do I need a better cable?
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post #2 of 12
2/3/09 at 10:14am
The image probably doesn't look good because 1) you didn't calibrate it 2) It's a low end LCD and the video processing isn't that great. Just guessing. Calibration should definitely help. Whatever resolution you send it, the display has to scale it tp 1440x900.

larry
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post #3 of 12
2/3/09 at 2:20pm
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Originally Posted by mgold View Post

About a week ago I bought a new Toshiba TV (19AV500U). This is the first LCD TV that I've bought and overall I've been very happy with it. My Problem is that I can't seem to get DVD's to look good on this TV. Here is the situation.

I initially hooked up the DVD player to the "Video" port, which I know is mainly for VCR's. The other day I went out and bought a Component Video Cable from Radioshack. I hooked that up to the "ColorStream HD" port from the ColorStream port on my Toshiba DVD player. I started playing some DVD's to see how the picture improved. Overall it was better than before, but the picture still looks bad. The images are sometimes a little blurry and not clear. If there's a lot of fast motion in a movie it seems to not handle that very well. Honestly my DVD's looked better hooked up to a Standard-Def TV. It just doesn't seem to be down-converting to 480 very well.

Here is the Component Cable I bought and the TV specs:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=2289560
http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/televisi...model=19av500u


What do people suggest I do? Do I need a better cable?

Listen to pooper, turn down the contrast, set the color to warm and turn off sharpening.

If that doesn't help, try a HDMI cable and let the DVD player do the upconversion, it may or not be more capable.
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post #4 of 12
2/3/09 at 3:27pm
I didn't think he had HDMI on the player or else he would have used it. Maybe not. Even with HDMI, the TV will still have to scale.

larry
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post #5 of 12
2/4/09 at 6:30am
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I've tried to calibrate the TV. No matter how much you play with it though it still doesn't look good in some situations. The TV looks great with Digital TV over-the-air broadcasts!

Don't you think I would have used an HDMI cable if the DVD player was capable? There's no HDMI connection on the DVD player.

What options do I have now?
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post #6 of 12
2/4/09 at 6:49am
What did you use to calibrate? Avia? DVE? GetGray?

larry
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post #7 of 12
2/4/09 at 12:26pm
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I haven't used any special discs for calibration. I've been told they aren't that helpful.

The DVD Player is Toshiba SD-1800. On the front it says 192 kHz 24 Bit Auido DAC.
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post #8 of 12
2/4/09 at 3:59pm
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Originally Posted by mgold View Post

I haven't used any special discs for calibration. I've been told they aren't that helpful.

You were told wrong. At the very least try the basic setup (THX Optimizer) on the Pixar discs if you have one or can rent one. Better yet, try DVE or Avia II but as Larry noted, you are limited by the quality of the video processing.

Good luck.
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post #9 of 12
2/5/09 at 6:20am
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Originally Posted by mgold View Post

I haven't used any special discs for calibration. I've been told they aren't that helpful.

The DVD Player is Toshiba SD-1800. On the front it says 192 kHz 24 Bit Auido DAC.

You can't calibrate without reference test patterns. There's a who forum here on display calibration. Lots of good info there.

larry
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post #10 of 12
2/6/09 at 10:20am
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I guess I can just rent one of those disc. It couldn't hurt to try one out. Do you really need the specialized glasses and filters though?
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post #11 of 12
2/6/09 at 1:38pm
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Originally Posted by mgold View Post

I guess I can just rent one of those disc. It couldn't hurt to try one out. Do you really need the specialized glasses and filters though?

Not to set brightness and contrast, but you do to set saturation and tint/hue.

Get the THX Optimizer glasses: http://www.costore.com/THX/producten...=87&pid=930793

Shipping is only a couple of dollars, contrary to what it says on the page.

-Bill
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post #12 of 12
2/25/09 at 4:47pm
Dude, you need a decent and current upconverting DVD Player, ie a Toshiba XDE 500 or an Oppo. I have a Pioneer DV400, looks like crap on a flat panel, both my XDE 500 and my Sony BDPS350 BluRay makes the DVD's look beautiful. I subsequently hooked the DV400 up to my old Sony 34" XBR Tube, looks fine on the tube, crap on the flat panel, c'est la vie.
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