JVC D-Series (1 Viewer)

[Rick Radford]

This is an old thread!

Update: I bought an Hitachi 32UDX10S last October and have been enjoying it ever since. I ran it side-by-side with the JVC for a week. I was concerned about the digital set's PQ with analog cable. Turns out the PQ on the Hitachi was much better than the JVC... as were DVDs!

So for ~$1200, I am a happy camper.

 

[Jason Caudill]

Chris,

the sonys you mentioned do not upconvert to 480p, they use DRC and go to 960i (i think). This gives the image a softer edge than I care for. I would put the Toshiba sets that upconvert to 540p ahead of the sonys, but thats just personal preference. Jason

 

[Chris PC]

Hmmm. I don't think they do that, but you might be right. I thought since they pass DVD's at the native 480p that they can upscale cable to 480p to. It seems logical to take signals like cable, which is a natural to line-double, literally from 480i to 480p and do just that. Otherwise, more scaling artifacts come into play. If Sony does upconvert 480i to a higher resolution, then they don't do too bad a job, compared to many.
I tried the squeeze last night on my TV and was glad I got into that service menu . No what I found out? Doh. My TV was not calibrate properly for the simplest of things, such as, horizontal size. I shrunk the size and kept shrinking it and I couldn't believe how much image I was missing! Never mind DVD's! I'm talking NTSC cable! I must have been lossing 10 pixels or so per side! I couldn't believe it. I adjusted it a little bit and low and behold, after comparing the original setting with my new alignment, I was missing a sizable part of the picture. OK, it wasn't a HUGE amount, but I mean, still!
I did the anamorphic squeeze for DVD's and it worked ok. I have a question though.
Are there any other alignment adjustments that have to be tweaked when doing the squeeze? I thought I noticed some pincusion or trapazoid distortion at the top of the picture. I didn't spend alot of time verifying, and I will look again with, say the AVIA or another DVD. I have to use that because I couldn't tell how exact the alignment in the corners was before cause I never focussed on that, but I imagine it might be a bit off or i wouldn't be questioning it.
So do most people just change the two settings? Or do you custom tweak other settings for the squeeze.
Thanks for the info

 

[ChristopherT]

Just reading your post now.
I own the AV-32230. Here are a few links you might find helpful and informative...
Anamorphic Squeeze
http://www.hometheaterspot.com/cgi-b...34&t=000355&p=
http://www.hometheaterspot.com/ubb/u...;f=34;t=000390
http://www.hometheaterspot.com/cgi-b...34&t=000373&p=
Also check out Tom Huffman's web site.
Cheers

 

[Dan V]

I have a AV-32230, I tried the anamorphic squeeze and after much research and trial, these are the settings that worked best for me -,#64 VS COR change from 009 to 014, #65 V LIN, change from 007 to 001, #66 V SIZE, change form 054 to 034, #76 SIDEPIN, change from 032 to 016, and #86 V BLK UP, change from 00 to 001. DVD's have nevr looked better.

 

[Chris PC]

I don't notice THAT much difference. I guess my interlaced player ain't so bad at downconverting. It is better I guess. I find it interesting though, how much picture was cut off due to my set having the vertical and horizontal settings wrong for standard 4:3 TV, VHS and dvd etc!