Crappy TV out picture

[funkychicken]

I'm using a radeon 8500 with Win XP and PowerDVD for ummm DVD's

trouble is the picture on the TV is rubbish it kinda looks all grainy.

I remember someone posting a while back about something similar and someone gave them a link to a program for TV out which fixed his/her problem.

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers,

Andy

 

[Confused]

You could be looking for HydroVision, do a search on google

Confused

 

[Dunjon]

I did the Google search but didn't find a program call HydroVision. My 8500 looks pretty good to me but I'd love to make it better if I can.

 

[rbV5]

You might want to try the latest beta drivers, I've heard the TV-out quality is much improved on the 8500 (there seems to be a gamma problem with some 8500 series boards)

Go to Rage3D and check out the 8500 forums, lots of good info there.

 

[Confused]

Sorry, my bad, it's HydraVision, my memory wasn't working too well

Confused

 

[Nintari]

I am the one who posted abut the problem on the radeon 8500. I posted about it but people on this forum and tomshardware forum ignored it. Rage3d though there was a pretty big responce to it and many many people started to find out about the problem. I finally got an e-mail from ATI confirming the problem but no answer as to wy it was happening or if it was going to be fixed. It is a problem that shows up at 800x600 only. Images look washed out and seem to have an odd papery film over them. It is not a driver problem it is in the hardware. Every other resolution is fine though.

What I did to get around this problem was used power strip to create a custom resolution of 720x576 and everything looks great(somone else posted this solution in the thread I stared at rage3d) . Not as small as 640x480 and not as large as 800x600 but a good medium resolution good for DVD and web surfing too.

From my understanding the radeon 7500 does not have this problem at 800x600 though.