Jonnie M
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- Dec 4, 2000
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Hello all,
Recently i started going through my region free discs on a new 42 inch Panasonic plasma using a Phillips 727 DVD player and the quality of the picture is, well, awful. I've tried using Avia and calibrating by eye but nothing seems to help. The picture is very soft and muddy, tons of jaggies (?) and ghosting... overall its just really poor. I had used the phillips on my older Sony Wega (4X3 squeeze set) and it produced a relatively decent picture.
Is there a reason why the quality is so poor? I doubt that all NTSC to Pal discs would look this bad on all HD monitors. Would upgrading the player to something like an Oppo greatly increase the picture quality? Any feedback about what others may be using on a plasma or HDTV to view region free discs would be of great use. I doubt it, but do all Pal discs on an HDTV look this inferior to NTSC discs?
just FYI, i have a Marantz player that is my primary and the pic quality is excellent... the Phillips is just for viewing Pal discs.
Any information would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance, (Please Help !!)
Jon
Recently i started going through my region free discs on a new 42 inch Panasonic plasma using a Phillips 727 DVD player and the quality of the picture is, well, awful. I've tried using Avia and calibrating by eye but nothing seems to help. The picture is very soft and muddy, tons of jaggies (?) and ghosting... overall its just really poor. I had used the phillips on my older Sony Wega (4X3 squeeze set) and it produced a relatively decent picture.
Is there a reason why the quality is so poor? I doubt that all NTSC to Pal discs would look this bad on all HD monitors. Would upgrading the player to something like an Oppo greatly increase the picture quality? Any feedback about what others may be using on a plasma or HDTV to view region free discs would be of great use. I doubt it, but do all Pal discs on an HDTV look this inferior to NTSC discs?
just FYI, i have a Marantz player that is my primary and the pic quality is excellent... the Phillips is just for viewing Pal discs.
Any information would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance, (Please Help !!)
Jon