Thread: Ugly darks
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Old 2007-11-16, 04:33   Link #2
hobbes_fan
You could say.....
 
 
Join Date: Apr 2007
It could be a whole heap of things.

46" is it LCD, Plasma or CRT. LCD reproduces darks worst its just the way it is. CRT still probably has the best black/dark colour reproduction followed by plasma. It is also more than likely that the encodes aren't high enough quality (which is is why I almost excsluively only d/l 1280x720 h.64 files where possible.)

Basically have a look at files, if they're 640x 480 and you expect them to look good on 46" 1920x1080 resolution screen you will have to live with artifacing. You're basically blowing up the image 3 to 4 times it's normal resolution. For a simple experiment to demonstrate what I mean, get a magnifying glass, get a magazine look at the words/pics with the magnifying glass. That's pretty much what's happenning. Also consider how yo connect to your 46" RCA, S-video don't have the bandwidth to deal with high res files, You need to use either VGA or HDMI.

It also depends on the file avi/divx/xvid really don't work well in my experience in big screen situations. High res H.264 looks far superior to a high res avi/divx/xvid file.

And that's not ruling out a bad encode. I have no experience with KAA stuff for obvious reasons. But you might want to check with them.
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