Analog vs. Digital Picture Quality

[Pyrrho]

I just got a New Panasonic 42" 77U. I have cable connected via a comcast high def DVR box. I ran a DVI to HDMI cable from the box to the TV HDMI in. I also ran component video from the box to the receiver and a HDMI from the receiver to TV.

THE PROBLEM

The picture quality with hi def cable feed is increadible. How ever the standtard analog channels look pretty much horrible. Is there a way to fix this?

The best "solution" that I know of is to select an aspect ratio that simply puts on the screen what is in the signal rather than expanding it to be large (it is called "1:1" on the HDTV I have, but may be called something else on other sets), so that the analog picture only uses a small portion of the screen. That way, it will look sharp and clear. But it will be much smaller than the HD pictures. The only way you will have the same detail per inch is to make the picture smaller.

 

[ned]

i've a Realta HQV scaler and certainly made all non-HD channels look great. It also has NLS.