Telewest and LCD tv Picture quality.

mj82 · 14-01-2006, 20:37

I have just brought an lcd tv and when i connect my cable box to it the picture quality is really poor. I have changed my scart cable to a monster one but still no better. I connected my dvd player and the picture is perfect as is my freeview. has anyone got any ideas to try ????

TAZMANUK · 17-01-2006, 14:55

Hi
have u made sure that the scart lead is connected all the way in?

i dont have a lcd tv i have a 42 inch rear projection tv and the picture is brilliant on it, i have connected it using some OFC (Oxygen free copper) scart cables with gold plated connections which i got from argos they was hitachi ones, but u stated u have used monster which maybe better than the ones i am using.

have you tried both of the scart sockets on the back of ur tv make sure both are working fine with your dvd player as i used to have a sanyo crt tv and one of the scart sockets was faulty and would only bring up sound and no picture i have to wiggle it a bit to get the picture on.

you could try a scart to phono if u lcd have that option

mj82 · 18-01-2006, 12:22

Thanks for the sugestion tazman, I have just had a engineer out and he said that telewest won't work with my lcd untill tv drive comes out sometime in march. so i think i'll get sky.

TAZMANUK · 18-01-2006, 14:58

Thats strange why wont the cable box work via scart cable? seems odd to me, should work ok via scart as that is what they call a eurosocket, the other way you could try is the RF via the aerial, or feed it through your video and connect the video to it and us the AV button seems a little odd that you have a lcdtv that wont pick up on scart

mj82 · 18-01-2006, 19:53

Hi, the tv does display the image and sound when connected to the cable box via a scart, it is just really poor quality ie alot of distortion. A chap from from the engineer dept called me back and said that they have just recieved some of the tv drive boxes in and that he should be able to get me one for next week. I'll see what happens.

jonnynorris · 28-02-2006, 14:07

Did you change the colour type in the 'Settings & Services' area of the Telewest Menu? Mine was on 'composite' as default and had to change it to 'RGB'. This made a big difference to the quality even though the connection was still via RGB Scart.

I too have an LCD TV and it works fine with a non-TVDrive box.

**Stephen** · 28-02-2006, 15:03

I think what he meant by the TV drive box is that it outputs some programs in HD and more are to come. Its not that the regular Telewest box doesn't work with your TV it does, its just it can't run at the same resolution the TV is designed for yet.

As your LCD has a higher resolution that standard TV it will not look as good as it does on a standard TV. The digital picture is also heavily compressed and that will show up on the bigger screen, getting sky won't solve this either. The same thing will probably happen as well, unless you wait for the SKY HD service.

The Telewest TV drive offers this service and is already available, however none of the channels in HD have actually launched yet.

spacegirl · 28-02-2006, 15:56

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Originally Posted by DarthYoda

I think what he meant by the TV drive box is that it outputs some programs in HD and more are to come. Its not that the regular Telewest box doesn't work with your TV it does, its just it can't run at the same resolution the TV is designed for yet.

As your LCD has a higher resolution that standard TV it will not look as good as it does on a standard TV. The digital picture is also heavily compressed and that will show up on the bigger screen, getting sky won't solve this either. The same thing will probably happen as well, unless you wait for the SKY HD service.

The Telewest TV drive offers this service and is already available, however none of the channels in HD have actually launched yet.

That's for sure... regular 4:3 broadcasts from LivingTV look aweful on our new Sony Bravia 32" LCD. You can really see the compression. Nasty! Some channels are worse than others - BBC's coverage of the Ice Skating at the Olypics last week was fab, widescreen and very clear. I guess some channels vary their compression ratios. DVD's play back brilliantly tho.

hickmon · 06-03-2006, 21:12

compression.... anybody seen "quiz tv" on freeview.... RAW.!!

chindley · 08-03-2006, 11:03

I've not seen it but i've heard Scott Mills ripping it on Radio1.. apparently they have a vendetta against him

Lee-B · 03-04-2006, 13:36

I was wondering if the same is true of the TVdrive? With regular channels? are they compressed in the same fashion? or does the MPEG like artifacts go away on all channels?

Lee