I've built an HTPC to get the best video quality possible for my projector, but aside from better colors, I'd say I have worse quality than my DVD player. I figure it must be a settings problem. I also get quite a bit of screen tear. So, I thought I would ask the throbbing brain on the AVS forum for help.
1. How do I avoid screen tear? I play NTSC videos with a Radeon 8500 128 Video Card. Is it simply a matter of refresh rates?
2. How do I improve the picture quality? In particular, I seem to have a large amount of what I think is fixed patter noise (grainy dots at times in solid colors). These are not present (or less so) when using the DVD player. I don't think it's a cabling issue, because the DVD Player actually uses a longer cable (or actually feeds into the DVI-I cable I use for computer by means of a female/female coupler). Of course, the DVD player is going component to DVI-analog, which may lessen the noise for some reason, thereby making the cable the problem on for DVI-D (i.e., the computer), but if I knew, I wouldn't be asking.
1. How do I avoid screen tear? I play NTSC videos with a Radeon 8500 128 Video Card. Is it simply a matter of refresh rates?
2. How do I improve the picture quality? In particular, I seem to have a large amount of what I think is fixed patter noise (grainy dots at times in solid colors). These are not present (or less so) when using the DVD player. I don't think it's a cabling issue, because the DVD Player actually uses a longer cable (or actually feeds into the DVI-I cable I use for computer by means of a female/female coupler). Of course, the DVD player is going component to DVI-analog, which may lessen the noise for some reason, thereby making the cable the problem on for DVI-D (i.e., the computer), but if I knew, I wouldn't be asking.