Poor DVD picture quality on a Samsung LNT-4661 LCD TV

[Ben123]

Hi,

This question is directed to owners of Samsung LN-T4661. I recently trade in my old projector TV to a Samsung LNT-4661 capable of 1080p which is shipped Free of Charge under my local Samsung promotion program.

Immediately upon hooking up, I find the DVD picture to be quite bad. It's very soft and "pixelated" and lack of detail and sharpness. After extensive tweaking and upconverting the picture to 1080i helps a bit but the picture still looks very soft. I recalled that my older non-1080p 40" LCD TV display a much better picture for standard Def DVDs. I start to wonder if the less than satisfactory picture is due to the fault of my DVD player ( Samsung HD860, connected to the TV via HDMI ) or simply because this TV is bigger and I am watching them at about 8ft away thus making the picture flaws seems more obvious.

So for those that own this TV, which DVD player do you use and at what settings?

I read somewhere that 1080p TVs are actually not suitable for watching standard DVDs due to the need for more scalling up which can distort the picture and in this case, lower-end 720p TVs are more suitable to the task. Any truth in this?

Unfortunately, I don't have a BD player hooked up to this setup yet so I can't test the TV's performance on highdef sources.

Another wierd problem is that component cables do not work at all. The TV shows an error "mode not supported"