Why does guide look worse in HD?

[cal87]

I have my receiver set to native output. To me, the guide looks significantly sharper when I am tuned to a SD station at 480i. When I pull up the guide when tuned to a HD station - much fuzzier. Why would this be the case? Are they using some crappy scaling algorithm for the guide only?

As a comparison, looking at the SD stations themselves - comparing between letting my TV or HR20 doing the scaling (neither that great) - looks about the same. Letting my external video processor do the scaling is a different story.

[wilbur_the_goose]

I've seen the same thing...

[Canis Lupus]

Do you have more than just 480i selected in your display settings on the HR-20? You might want to check to make sure you have 720p and 1080i selected as supported resolutions and see if that helps. Also check the supported resolutions for your TV.

[Stuart Sweet]

If native is on, the guide is being internally scaled by your DVR to 1080 or 720. I actually find the guide a touch too sharp at 480i on my TV.

[Jeremy W]

The HR20 smooths the fonts when it's outputting HD. I find it to be more pleasant that way, but I do wish that they would render the text and graphics in HD instead of just upscaling them.