Dave>h
Second Unit
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- May 1, 2004
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Just to provide an update...
I calibrated the TV with the AVIA disk, cleaned the HD DVD with a clean lint free cloth.
I still noticed what I am calling pixelization, although to a lessor degree. What I am seeing could be grain I suppose but it looks more like digital artifacts to my eye. I read a review of the HD DVD and it does mention that at the beginning of the film the footage does look more grainy that later in the film but I think I know the difference between grain and pixelization (although I could be wrong). Pixelization, I would describe as "blotchy squares where a smooth color or surface should be". I often see it on DVD especially in pictures of sky or hard whites or background walls, place like that. Grain, well I am not sure how to describe that, other than to say the picture looks like poorly developed film, if that makes sense.
I do not think, when using DVI (or HDMI) that I can manually turn off the DNie - whatever that is. I believe in the TV menu, when I do the calibration With the HD A1, going through the DVI connection, the DNie is on and there is no way to turn it off. That is, the menu item DNie is inaccessible, as though it is always on with DVI. If I am calibrating using the "Composite" connection, I can turn the Dnie off so I assume this is something specific to the DVI connection. Anyone familiar with the Sammy's know how to turn this circuitry off when using the DVI connection?
Amybe I will connect the A1 via component and see if get the same pixelization, at least I can start to narrow down where the issue might be as it seems rather obvious that this is a TV issue rather than an HD Dvd issue.
Thanks for all the comments. I will continue to update.
Dave
I calibrated the TV with the AVIA disk, cleaned the HD DVD with a clean lint free cloth.
I still noticed what I am calling pixelization, although to a lessor degree. What I am seeing could be grain I suppose but it looks more like digital artifacts to my eye. I read a review of the HD DVD and it does mention that at the beginning of the film the footage does look more grainy that later in the film but I think I know the difference between grain and pixelization (although I could be wrong). Pixelization, I would describe as "blotchy squares where a smooth color or surface should be". I often see it on DVD especially in pictures of sky or hard whites or background walls, place like that. Grain, well I am not sure how to describe that, other than to say the picture looks like poorly developed film, if that makes sense.
I do not think, when using DVI (or HDMI) that I can manually turn off the DNie - whatever that is. I believe in the TV menu, when I do the calibration With the HD A1, going through the DVI connection, the DNie is on and there is no way to turn it off. That is, the menu item DNie is inaccessible, as though it is always on with DVI. If I am calibrating using the "Composite" connection, I can turn the Dnie off so I assume this is something specific to the DVI connection. Anyone familiar with the Sammy's know how to turn this circuitry off when using the DVI connection?
Amybe I will connect the A1 via component and see if get the same pixelization, at least I can start to narrow down where the issue might be as it seems rather obvious that this is a TV issue rather than an HD Dvd issue.
Thanks for all the comments. I will continue to update.
Dave