Hello,
I recently just built a PVR Box for my TV. Everything is working fine (using Beyond TV), however the image on my TV is a little washed out, the color isn't as vibrant as it should be. I believe its because I'm using an ATI Radeon 9200 SE and the video out on the card is poor. I just want to confirm this, and if I upgrade to say a Radeon X700 PRO VIVO 256 mb will this improve the image on my TV??? Please note that my TV does not have SVideo and only has a composite video connection.
So basically my question is should i upgrade to the RADEON X700?? Or if i should upgrade is their a video card that you would recommend and will this improve the TV Out quality?? (Please keep in mind that i'm on a budget, $150-200 for the card would be fine)
Thanks
Hauie
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Sounds to me that the reception from teh aerial isnt brilliant...
i doubt it is the card itself.
as wompey says, try another video cable (if you have one spare) or first try and attach to aerial to a tv first. If thats ok, you know there is a setting incorrect on the system, if it isnt, you know its either the cable, or the aerial reception itself.
The Cable is a high quality cable coming from the video out of the 9200se and goes into my video in on my TV. I know the cable feed is good because it looks great on the LCD monitor attached to the Computer. I'm basically cloning the image on to the TV.
Also, I can't change the Settings on the TV because I have two feeds to the TV, one is from a digital box and the other coming from my PVR. The color and image coming from my digital box are excellent, but when i switch to video 1 (the PVR) then the image is a little washed out (But still very watchable, it just bugs me that its not perfect). So if I change the color settings of the TV, i'll have to constantly readjust it as I move from Video to TV.
Any other suggestions??
Thanks again
Hey hauie
You an adjust the colour, brightness, contrast and gamma in the control panel of the ati catalyst drivers.
Right Click on desktop > Properties > Settings > Select tv-out display monitor > Advanced > Overlay
You will need to have a video playing to edit them controls in realtime
My opinion is that buying a new graphics card will not solve the problem of quality. Bad quality tv cards/badly configured calibration is normally the cause of problems. When playing back DVD's, xvid movies etc I would advice to use the ffdshow codec (you can search for this on google) - It provides advanced configuration to edit the movie quality in real-time. It can filter out noise, sharpen, post-process, deblock and many more features to enrich the image.
Good luck :)
garreh
Your TV's composite video input is really your Achilles heel here. You'll need S-Video to get decent picture saturation. Composite will always look washed out compared to s-video and especially a digital LCD. It's the nature of composite and the reason s-video was created. S-video keeps the R G and B signals separate to maintain their vibrancy. You could probably find a way to boost the saturation of the colors from your video card but you'll probably end up with color bleed on the TV set.
My advice, get a new TV with S-Video if picture quailty is paramount. Top choices are DVI and HDMI.
Sorry to be a bummer.
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by: wompeyPosted on 2006-02-21 at 15:03:16ID: 16013780
Hi Hauie,
I'm not sure if another video card would help you or not, but have you tried changing the color settings on the TV? If that doesn't help, try another video cable if you have one lying around before spending more $$$. I've heard that sometimes video cables that come with video cards are pretty bad...