picture quality issue

[Spenser]

The room is coming along. Got the tv (sony kds50a200 1080) hooked it up to onkyo dvd player (progressive/HDMI) and the picture looks grainy. Don't have it hooked up to cable yet (missed the cable guy wednesday). Do I need to have a better dvd player to get a better pic for this kind of tv?

 

[mtrycrafts]

The room is coming along. Got the tv (sony kds50a200 1080) hooked it up to onkyo dvd player (progressive/HDMI) and the picture looks grainy. Don't have it hooked up to cable yet (missed the cable guy wednesday). Do I need to have a better dvd player to get a better pic for this kind of tv?

I am reading that your picture is grainy when you play a DVD movie? Is this correct?

What cable is used to connect the DVD player to the TV? Did you go through the DVD player setup to output progressive picture? Up-convert? Set the TV up properly in the right video in; TV calibrated with a test DVD?

 

[Spenser]

I have the dvd player hooked up to the tv via hdmi cable. I did go through set up on the dvd player and set it to progressive/hdmi. The tv itself doesn't have any option like that. The tv was not calibrated with a test dvd.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I have the dvd player hooked up to the tv via hdmi cable. I did go through set up on the dvd player and set it to progressive/hdmi. The tv itself doesn't have any option like that. The tv was not calibrated with a test dvd.

How far away do you sit when viewing? Have you tried using other video hookup method, component, S-video? In the DVD setup, have you also selected up conversion to 720 or 1080?
When the cable is hooked up, compare them and let us know.

 

[Spenser]

the viewing area is about 6 foot. I have tried component and the video looks the same. I do not have cable in the room yet. I also have set the dvd up correctly..progressive/hdmi 1080 setting.

 

[mtrycrafts]

the viewing area is about 6 foot. I have tried component and the video looks the same. I do not have cable in the room yet. I also have set the dvd up correctly..progressive/hdmi 1080 setting.

Well, it seems your viewing distance is within limits. Is that a 1080i setting on the DVD? Is that TV a 1080i TV?
Hopefully the cable TV will be hooked up soon and can compare. Not sure why it is so grainy

Actually, see if it is grainy when you are further back?

 

[JKL1960]

Will it be stupid to ask what you mean by grainy? HD is good enough to reveal film grain in a DVD movie. Nothing you can do about that. Do all DVD's suffer from this issue? Could be a bad HDMI cable. (That would be me grasping at straws. )

 

[Spenser]

I didn't expect things to be crystal clear while playing a dvd movie. I don't think the dvd player is doing a good job upconverting from 480 to 1080...infact i'd probably have to go to an hd-dvd player to get what I really want-but that's not going to happen. I'm going to see what hd cable looks like and take it from there, maybe try to get the monitor calibrated. The graininess almost looks like little particles of distortion. I don't think I can explain it any more than that. I'll tell you how cable looks if I can manage not to miss Mr Charter Cable.

 

[AVRat]

I wouldn't expect it on that TV, but you may be experiencing the screen door effect. Does it disappear if you move back a foot or two.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I didn't expect things to be crystal clear while playing a dvd movie. I don't think the dvd player is doing a good job upconverting from 480 to 1080...infact i'd probably have to go to an hd-dvd player to get what I really want-but that's not going to happen. I'm going to see what hd cable looks like and take it from there, maybe try to get the monitor calibrated. The graininess almost looks like little particles of distortion. I don't think I can explain it any more than that. I'll tell you how cable looks if I can manage not to miss Mr Charter Cable.

Well, I doubt your DVD player, unless that particular one is defective, is unable to do a good job of upscaling.
Let me ask you, are these DVDs anamorphic or non-anamorphic?
I have a 100x54 screen, front projection, and an inexpensive Panasonic is doing a great job on anamorphic from DVDs.