Hd Tv Pitcure Help :eek5:

[shamoo]

hello all, i need some advice/help. i'm a big fan of films (obviously ) i recently came into some money, so i bought a hd tv, Samsung LE32N73BDX 32" this is only used as a tv not pc monitor, i have a £30 scart lead which i got from a panasonic shop, so it should be good. i hooked up my sky+ with the good scart lead, but the picture is not as good as my old 32" overly big hitachi, it goes pixelated?? i just watched platoon dvd on my new tv (i changed the scarts lead over untill i get another ) sometimes the picture was excellent but sometimes it looked pixelated. now the dvd was a "back up" of the original, i used dvd shrink. but the problem is for both dvd and sky. so my questions is. is it pixelated on sky because the quality being sent from sky is not good enough to fill the amount of pixles on the tv, (hence sky hd) but surely it would be a better picture than my old tv or the same, its the same size? and secondly was the dvd pixelated because it was a "back up" and not as high quality as the original dvd would be.
i've looked and changed settings on the tv no joy? does anyone have or had this problem? if so how did you solve it?

[MrHenryDog]

cant answer the sky question, but if you watch a dvd on hd tv, you need a hd dvd player,and a special hd lead.some dvd players can 'ramp' or 'upscale' existing dvds up to a play on a hd tv,but it still wont be true 1080.

[sandt38]

Platoon needs a stout compression, I backed it up myself not long ago. Simple transcoders like Shrink just don't work very well when you compress much more than 20% and use a big screen. If you want to try a nice free program to compress bigger movies, I suggest DVD-Rebuilder. I personally use the Pro version because I like the complete 1 click methood, which encodes, converts to .iso, and burns using IMG Burn or DVD Decypter. Here is a great tutorial on using an all freeware encoder. Unlike the tutorial I listed I personally use DVDShrink (with "no compression" setting selected to rip the entire film for compression) with AnyDVD running in the background to rip and strip. IMO it is worth it to purchase the DVD-RB Pro package and at least CCE Basic (Cinema Craft Encoder). I use CCE SP 2.7, but that is some large cash. HCEenc which comes in the free DVD-RB is a perfectly fine program. This will take a few hours to encode, but the quality is worth it.

Other times, the media quality can affect the picture, but typically they display colored pixelations. I started using cheap media which worked fine for my smaller TV, but when it went in my 53" or projector, it looked like crap. I suggest buying and using only high quality media. I prefer Taiyo Yuden (which by many accounts is "the best"), but Verbatim is also among the "highest quality" media preferred by rabid enthusiasts. Both are available at Supermediastore and at RIMA. Sorry, I realized you are in the UK, and looked for a source that was reccomended for those in the UK. Here are the Taiyo Yudens in a store based in the UK, and here are the Verbs.

Hope this helps.