How to make movie quality better on LCDs?

[lektrix]

Just got a Viewsonic 19" VX924, popped in some movies but I noticed the quality @ 1280x1024@75Mhz is more blurry and pixelated than the quality @ 1024x768 on my 17" CRT.....Im using a DVI input too..is there anything I can do to improve it?

 

[0roo0roo]

ugh..what movies? you talking hideous divx? those are blurry and pixelated and maybe now you can actually see the horror

that or you are using lousy dvd decoder software.

 

[ribbon13]

nothing wrong with Divx/Xvid. I can't really tell the difference when I make a DL movie compress to about ~2350MB (2 movies per single layer disc for backup)

Perhaps you mean pirated DivX where groups try to fit movies on to 1 or 2 CDs? Yeah, compressing 9GB to 600MB is gonna look like crap, especially on a digital display. When you have superior hardware the crappyness of your media is more apparent. CRTs naturally masking is why crap encodings look better on it.

 

[lektrix]

Damn. Maybe I should get some real DVDs 🙁

It does not look as smooth and appealing when displaying video files and showing every pixelation in its unforgiving video playback.

 

[lektrix]

BTW, the monitor says 160 degree horizontal and vertical... does that just mean upward and downward tilt? its not possible to tilt this thing left/right or rotate it 90 degrees right?

 

[ribbon13]

viewing angles? its just how off center from the screen you can be and still see it clearly. Like if someone is standing behind you or sitting next to you.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Even retail DVDs have poorer quality at 1280x1024. They're encoded at 640x480 so displaying them full screen at a high resolution means loss of crispness. Still watchable, but I notice a difference. At native res/size DVDs have practically photo quality.

 

[sniperruff]

i don't know. stop supporting piracy?

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
Even retail DVDs have poorer quality at 1280x1024. They're encoded at 640x480 so displaying them full screen at a high resolution means loss of crispness. Still watchable, but I notice a difference. At native res/size DVDs have practically photo quality.

True but they use less compression but have bigger file sizes. DVD's look GOOD.

OP try and view some HD stuff from the apple site. If that looks POOR then the monitor isn't a very good one imo.

Crappy signals will make any good screen look poor.

Koing

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
Even retail DVDs have poorer quality at 1280x1024. They're encoded at 640x480 so displaying them full screen at a high resolution means loss of crispness. Still watchable, but I notice a difference. At native res/size DVDs have practically photo quality.

not all, depends on the aspect ratio.....

again, not all, gladiator is one exampe that comes to mind with pixelization even on a sd t.v., especially in the beginning where it leads you into the story, the smoke/dust has quite a bit of blocks...

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
Even retail DVDs have poorer quality at 1280x1024. They're encoded at 640x480 so displaying them full screen at a high resolution means loss of crispness. Still watchable, but I notice a difference. At native res/size DVDs have practically photo quality.

well they don't look poorer, they just look the same. they are 740x480 actually not 640x480. crispness does depend on renderer and quality of initial encode..some dvds are shady, esp older ones that weren't animophic, or ones where they squeeze too many eps into one disc to be cheap. what you do get at 1280x1024 is the ability to compare the total crispness of full hdtv res compared to dvd. it is rather amazing.

 

[JAG87]

coming from a sony 17 inch trinitron CRT, and going to the exact same monitor u have i tell you: sit back and enjoy what you got, it aint getting any better. Its what you sacrifice when you buy an LCD. You gain space and eyesight (and no more monitor tans) but you loose quality no matter how you put it,

 

[0roo0roo]

assuming his source material had quality to begin wtih. doubtful. and i doubt he had a top of the line 17" crt... i mean wtf is that? why would a professional buy a 17"? atleast within the last 10 years... its probably some old consumer grade crt thats faded anyways, no way it was better than his lcd no matter how lousy it is.

 

[lektrix]

guess it doesnt make a huge difference if i change my res to 640x480 jus to watch movies :\

 

[NeezyDeezy]

ffdshow

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: lektrix
Just got a Viewsonic 19" VX924, popped in some movies but I noticed the quality @ 1280x1024@75Mhz is more blurry and pixelated than the quality @ 1024x768 on my 17" CRT.....Im using a DVI input too..is there anything I can do to improve it?

Nothing, that's the nature of current LCD monitors. Newer technology doesn't always mean better technology across the board.

 

[lektrix]

And I just noticed the black isn't really black :|

 

[Penth]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
Even retail DVDs have poorer quality at 1280x1024. They're encoded at 640x480 so displaying them full screen at a high resolution means loss of crispness. Still watchable, but I notice a difference. At native res/size DVDs have practically photo quality.

well they don't look poorer, they just look the same. they are 740x480 actually not 640x480. crispness does depend on renderer and quality of initial encode..some dvds are shady, esp older ones that weren't animophic, or ones where they squeeze too many eps into one disc to be cheap. what you do get at 1280x1024 is the ability to compare the total crispness of full hdtv res compared to dvd. it is rather amazing.

720x480 FTW!

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
assuming his source material had quality to begin wtih. doubtful. and i doubt he had a top of the line 17" crt... i mean wtf is that? why would a professional buy a 17"? atleast within the last 10 years... its probably some old consumer grade crt thats faded anyways, no way it was better than his lcd no matter how lousy it is.

I had the original Iiyama Vision Master Pro 450. Would you say that is more top end?

Now I run a 23" Sony LCD and a 24" Dell LCD 😀

Koing