any luck with SD Picture Quality?

[loki993]

so I just got my dish installed and so far its pretty good. I do have a bit of a complaint though, the SD PQ is not very good. I was honestly expecting decent SD PQ based on the quality of my digital channels when I had cable, which were pretty decent. I expected the SD channels on dish to be pretty ogood also considering there all digital, but honestly they dont look much better than my cable analogs.

Im pretty sure its because the DVR is upconverting everything to 1080I and im sure my TV probably does a better job. has anybody had any luck in getting the SD channels decent? any ideas, settings? is there a way the get the box to not upconvert the SD so my TV can do it?

[Jim5506]

Some have used the S-video input as opposed to component or HDMI - seems to help out on SD channels, but it's a pain to switch inputs on the TV when you change channels.

[BattleZone]

SD just is never going to look very good on an HDTV, but both sat companies down-rez their SD programming a bit, which only makes it worse. You don't really notice this on a CRT, but on a fixed-pixel HD display, it looks bad. The upside is that the HD looks better, and more and more networks are going HD. In a few years, everyone will have been upgraded to HD-capable receivers (even if they aren't actually getting HD programming), the SD versions of the channels will be taken down, and folks with SDTVs will have the HD channels down-converted to SD by their receiver.

[loki993]

Some have used the S-video input as opposed to component or HDMI - seems to help out on SD channels, but it's a pain to switch inputs on the TV when you change channels.

yeah, I dont really like that idea and I know the GF will not.


the Hd does look great.

[Jim5506]

My daughter just got a Sony Bravia 26 in. HDTV,connected to a ViP211K - Sd looks pretty bad even on it.

However, my 57 inch Hitachi RP-CRT does a very good job with Dish SD signals, go figure.