[amahdi]

I have an HR21-700 and the picture quality on my Philips 47" is pretty good except I just feel it is not as "sharp" as it should be. For example when watching the View - the pq is really good but there is a very little blur when you see the faces. Its not that apparent but the pq is not that crisp in some cases.

Not sure why - your help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Ali

 

[say-what]

Well this is easy - you're watching The View

Actually, the problem could be with the signal being provided by your local station. There are many factors that go into what you see begining with the source signal, then the encoders at the uplink facility, then the signal has to travel from earth to the sat to your dish through your cabling (and all intermittent connectors and switches) to your box and then tv.

How do the other HD channels look?

 

[dcowboy7]

the view actually does blur the picture by using the "filter"....baba wawa wanted to look younger.

 

[Kansas Zephyr]

Try a different live HD show.

Barbara Walters is rather "mature", so cameras use a softening filter, at her request. She is the executive producer.

(It tends to help hide crow's feet, etc.)

Edit: dcowboy7, I see we posted at the same time

 

[TomCat]

the view actually does blur the picture by using the "filter"....baba wawa wanted to look younger.

Bingo!

Studio cameras have what are called "contouring" controls, which are essentially filters that sense skin tones and selectively reduce the resolution in strategic areas of the picture. It is the modern-day functional equivalent of shooting through cheesecloth. Most on-air talent, even at the local station level, have exact parameters of these settings spelled out in their contracts, to protect their image (from the truth ).

 

[amahdi]

Bingo!

Studio cameras have what are called "contouring" controls, which are essentially filters that sense skin tones and selectively reduce the resolution in strategic areas of the picture. It is the modern-day functional equivalent of shooting through cheesecloth. Most on-air talent, even at the local station level, have exact parameters of these settings spelled out in their contracts, to protect their image (from the truth ).

Thats what I think - "View" is sort of blurry. Other channels are pretty good. However I was watching the NBA playoffs this year and there was a stark difference between my picture (kind of grainy) vs my friend's picture on his HD TV. Only difference was he was using COMCAST Cable as his provider. It was on ESPN and his pq was def much better. Not sure why?

One last thing - I also noticed that the picture SIZE on my TV (closeness of characters on TV) is a bit smaller than the picture on my friend's tv. The people on the screen look bigger. Not sure if this makes sense or not.

Thanks again....

 

[DarinC]

There are a handful of channels, ESPN being one of them, that are still in MPEG2. They are compressing the MPEG2 channels more, relatively speaking, because they are on satellites that are extremely tight on space. They are rumored to become available in MPEG4 on the new sats VERY soon.