Analog on HDTV - Do some models do better than others?

[evenfall928]

Hey y'all,

We just bought the 42" Sharp LCD that was at Circuit City on Black Friday, and when we started testing our systems, my fiance noticed that our older game systems (e.g. Dreamcast + PS1) looked considerably worse than it did on our old Sanyo 32" SDTV.

I actually didn't notice this at first, but after a side-by-side comparison, I think it attributes to the lack of scanlines on the HD, so the images end up looking a lot more jagged and less smoothed.

Anyhow, I was wondering if there were any settings/accessories/other models/etc that would affect analog quality?

 

[Shawn]

Standard definition on an LCD or Plasma HDTV is always going to look worse than it does on a standard definition tv. The only exception would be a CRT HDTV that it can change it's resolution depending on the content.