Help!

[josh_l16]

TO ALL THAT MAY BE OF ASSISTANCE!
I need some help. I have the 522 dish box that allows you to have a second tv which has no box and is linked to the tv directly though a r/f cable. I recently purchased a new sony LCD tv and now my picture quality sucks! Is there anything I can do to get a increased picture quality without having to buy a new HD box and keep the set up the way it is? all opinions are welcome! THANKS!

[Rob Glasser]

Probably not. You could try running a new coax cable and see if that improves the picture a bit, and rule out any problems with the existing cabling. But historically SD TV, especially through RF is not going to look very good on an HDTV. Some TVs do a better job that others, I personally don't have any expierence with Sony LCDs, but I have tried off brand Plasmas vs Pioneer and Panasonic and the name brands do a signifigantly better job.

You really should get an HD receiver for an HDTV, you'd be much happier with the picture quality. At a minimum you could put another SD receiver in there hooked up via SVIDEO, that would probably improve it a bit.

[josh_l16]

Thanks for the info. I was looking at some other sites and do you think a cable booster could help it at all?

[Bill R]

Josh,

No, a "cable booster" (amp) likely won't help much. It is likely that the problem isn't that your signal is weak; the problem is that your new TV needs a higher resolution signal (like an HD signal) to take full advantage of its capabilities (I'm assuming that your new TV is HD capable). You should really consider upgrading your satellite system to HD. That is likely the only way that you will ever be happy with the picture on your new TV (from someone that has been where you are now).

[chainblu]

When I read this, I'm under the impression josh is complaining about TV-2...

[HDlover]

Could be the TV. Is it a flat panel LCD? I find almost all of them run way too bright, crushing whites and not showing much shadow detail and not good enough blacks. On top of that it is probably having to scale the picture too. If it is an LCD RPTV it might be having these problems also. Try a CRT TV for comparison.

[cafrankia]

i have found in my installs that lcd tv's really suck when it comes to the coax input the best thing to do is run the rca output to the lcd has a much better quality of output and it cleans it up even on tv2