[my65ffrcobra]

I love this projector btw Thanks for all the advice.


I ran component, composite, and HDMI to the projector. Then a friend moved in for the summer and brought his dish network with him. The best output of the dish unit is S-video so I bought a s-video cable and had it dangling up there but the picture is no better than composite. My friend said it made a huge diffrence on his tv. Is this normal?


Is it just me or is the dish broadcast especially crappy, it looks worse to me than DVD and even 480p broadcast over the air digital (atsc)


for all you 720p/1080i fence sitters the projector upstairs looks just as good as the 1080i tv downstairs. Thats comparing ota hd broadcast. Downstairs does look a little sharper but its 57 inches vs 137 inches upstairs. Downstairs the "tonight show" on the coffe cup looks a little blurry you just notice it more upstairs since the cup is 4 times as big

 

[jarrod1937]



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I love this projector btw Thanks for all the advice.


I ran component, composite, and HDMI to the projector. Then a friend moved in for the summer and brought his dish network with him. The best output of the dish unit is S-video so I bought a s-video cable and had it dangling up there but the picture is no better than composite. My friend said it made a huge diffrence on his tv. Is this normal?

composite and s-video send only 480i! the further you stray away from a fixed pixel displays native res the worse it'll look.

the difference from s-video and composite is that s-video seperates the luminence and color where composite has it all together. normally there would be a visual difference, however you're probably noticing the deinterlacing and upscaling more so there may be little difference between the two.

my recommendation is either live with the bad pq of s-video, get hd dish, or run it through a seperate video processor or htpc to cleanup the signal the best you can and feed it back to the projector through a better connection (what i currently do myself).

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Is it just me or is the dish broadcast especially crappy, it looks worse to me than DVD and even 480p broadcast over the air digital (atsc)

dish compresses the crap out of their video signal, so it may.