[adgreer]

I just got my h20 yesterday and I am trying to find the best resolution setting. So far seems like having native on to adjust to the channels resolution is the best. Just wondered what ever one else has favored. Also how do you use the mini menu Instead of the full guide?

 

[BradBrening]

I just got my h20 yesterday and I am trying to find the best resolution setting. So far seems like having native on to adjust to the channels resolution is the best. Just wondered what ever one else has favored. Also how do you use the mini menu Instead of the full guide?

I run mine at 1080i, and have set the settings for the "Display" menu to "pillar box" - which shows SD programs with the black bars on the side. This way, HD looks great in full screen, SD channels look great in "pillar box" format, and the guide still looks good all the time.

I've tried using "Native" format, and I've found that if it's in 480 mode the guide looks horrible. Also, my Hitachi TV takes a second or two to recognize the new resolution whenever I switch between SD and HD programs.

 

[bobnielsen]

I run mine in 720p, since my plasma only has 768 pixels vertically. I tried 1080i and couldn't tell any difference.

The blue button will give you the mini-guide while watching a program. You can navigate with up/down/left/right.

 

[Marino13]

I run mine at 1080i, and have set the settings for the "Display" menu to "pillar box" - which shows SD programs with the black bars on the side. This way, HD looks great in full screen, SD channels look great in "pillar box" format, and the guide still looks good all the time.

I've tried using "Native" format, and I've found that if it's in 480 mode the guide looks horrible. Also, my Hitachi TV takes a second or two to recognize the new resolution whenever I switch between SD and HD programs.

It is not your TV that takes a second or two to recognize the difference on native but rather the DirecTV receiver that takes that long to reconfigure the output.

For what it is worth I use native on all three of my H20's. I have all of them hooked up to Lumagen VisionHDP HD Video Processor/Scaler's and then hooked up to three different panels (2 are 768P and 1 is 1080P). I use pixel-perfect mode on all of my displays to bypass the TV's internal scaler. Using native mode on the H20 allows the Lumagen to do all of the deinterlacing/processing/scaling of whatever signal the H20 sends it. I also have all of my displays and Lumagen's professionally calibrated.

I use 1080i on my three HR10-250's since they do not have native output. This allows me to send all of the pixels to my Lumagen's for 1080i broadcast (CBS HD and NBC HD).

Hey, I see you are from Gillespie. I live in Staunton. Small world.

 

[ej777]

I have a 50inch Sony SXRD with the h20 hooked up via HDMI. I have noticed digital programming is not crisp but the HD is awesome. Anyone have a suggestion as to how if possible I can clear up the digital picture? Thanks in advance.

 

[thedonn]

I use native with my Vizio P50.
Double check that you also have 1080i and 720p both selected in your supported resolutions. I saw that I forgot to add 1080i back to my H20 when I was testing something. So for a few weeks all HD was outputting at 720.

 

[rynberg]

I do not use native simply because my CRT RPTV takes ~2 seconds to switch between 480 and 1080i and doesn't accept 720p anyway. The SD channels do look better when output at 480, so when I know I'll actually be watching a program on an SD channel instead of surfing, I just switch the output res to 480.