I think something's wrong (picture quality)

[Vile]

Hi all,

I just bought a panasonic player (DMP-BD10A model) and hooked it up to my Panasonic HDtv (TH-37PX60U model). I use an HDMI cable. When I checked the tv's setup and the players setup, all the HDMI stuff was on and seemed to check okay.

When I played a disk, the blu-ray movie add where they show you 5 blue ray movies to watch, was very grainy and hmm hard to describe.. very light colored. So after a couple hours of troubleshooting I tried changing the players HDMI setting. It was set to automatically detect which quality type the TV can handle. After trying each type I finally put it on 1080i which I dont think my TV can do. Yet for some reason that came out looking the best and solved the strange lightness/grain problem.

Now when I watch though.. something just doesnt seem right. I have a feeling the picture quality should look nicer like it does when I watch digital TV in HD. Any thoughts? I'm going crazy trying to figure this out. Thanks!

[DavePS3]

Stuff from cable or satellite that is actually shot in 1080i video, definately looks better. Try the Blu-Ray of the Pat Metheny concert or BLue Planet for example. They look incredible. Movies do look a lot better than 480i but if you've been up-converting DVD's to 1080i, the difference on many Blu-Ray's to the SD equivalent (also true of HD-DVD), are mostly in edging... no dot crawl, stir-stepping, smoother looking edges all around and DTS is clearer even when using your existing Toslink or Coax to pass the 5.1 or 6.1

[Vile]

Ah okay that makes sense. I'll try one of the ones shot in 1080i and see if it looks like how things appear on my TV through digital cable. Thank you much for the reply

[WickyWoo]

When I played a disk, the blu-ray movie add where they show you 5 blue ray movies to watch, was very grainy and hmm hard to describe.. very light colored. So after a couple hours of troubleshooting I tried changing the players HDMI setting. It was set to automatically detect which quality type the TV can handle. After trying each type I finally put it on 1080i which I dont think my TV can do. Yet for some reason that came out looking the best and solved the strange lightness/grain problem.

You have a 720p TV right?

It may have been set to 480p

You should really set it to 720p output, because all you're doing is introducing scaling artifacts

and DTS is clearer even when using your existing Toslink or Coax to pass the 5.1 or 6.1

That's impossible, since you're sending the bitstream. It's the exact same data. You're looking at a placebo effect