Firespinner
10-28-05, 01:34 PM
Here's my deal, with hope for help from the Informed—
I've hooked up a SA 8300HD to my LC32D5U after abandoning Cablecard and deciding that I wanted DVR to play with. The problems:
When I use a regular componant cable (Red/White/Yellow), the tv recognizes the cablebox and I can use the smart stretch feature, TVGOS, etc. The SD picture looks alright, a little pixilated maybe, BUT the HD picture looks AWFUL.
When I connect using the cable that TWC gave me (red/blue/green///red/white), the tv won't read "cablebox" but recognizes a componant. HD looks completely brilliant just like it should, but SD looks garish and it seems like none of my carefully chosen (Avia) calibration settings are being used. Also, the formerly black bars on the side of 4:3 content are bright grey, the picture is slightly off center, and I can't use any of my TV's view mode options (like smart stretch). TVGOS is completely out.
I'm using my HDMI connection for my upscaling Samsung HD850 DVD player, so that's not an option, I don't think.
Please help this newbie figure out how best to set up my equipment—
Thanks, and cheers!
I've hooked up a SA 8300HD to my LC32D5U after abandoning Cablecard and deciding that I wanted DVR to play with. The problems:
When I use a regular componant cable (Red/White/Yellow), the tv recognizes the cablebox and I can use the smart stretch feature, TVGOS, etc. The SD picture looks alright, a little pixilated maybe, BUT the HD picture looks AWFUL.
When I connect using the cable that TWC gave me (red/blue/green///red/white), the tv won't read "cablebox" but recognizes a componant. HD looks completely brilliant just like it should, but SD looks garish and it seems like none of my carefully chosen (Avia) calibration settings are being used. Also, the formerly black bars on the side of 4:3 content are bright grey, the picture is slightly off center, and I can't use any of my TV's view mode options (like smart stretch). TVGOS is completely out.
I'm using my HDMI connection for my upscaling Samsung HD850 DVD player, so that's not an option, I don't think.
Please help this newbie figure out how best to set up my equipment—
Thanks, and cheers!