Murky picture quality through TV-OUT

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
  • muteme
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Jun 2004
    • 26
    #1

    Murky picture quality through TV-OUT

    Er, hi, wasn't sure where to put this...

    I'm having a bit of bother with the picture quality when I hook my TV up to my video card. I'm sure it must have been alright, maybe not great, until a week or two ago I noticed how murky and washed out my desktop (and movies, and, well, anything) looks on my TV, and how certain colours, like blues and reds, look over-saturated. See, I watch DVDs through my computer and onto my 21" TV (which I only recently bought new), so it's a pain for them to take such a dive in quality. And Divx/Xvid videos have a lot of the life sucked out of them and are made to look like something filmed from the back of a cinema (they're not, by the way )

    I have an ATI Radeon 9550 video card, which I've hooked up to my TV with a yellow RCA cable. I've tried using a different TV - the same. Tried another RCA cable (one that actually came with the video card) - same. I held the cable both close to and away from the monitor and power cables, to see if there was interference, and it made no difference. Changing the colour and contrast on my TV does very little.

    So should I assume that it's an issue with the ATI card itself? Is there any way to modify the TV-OUT signal, so maybe I could finetune it until it looks right? Or any other suggestions?

    Oh, er, some specs...

    Windows XP
    640mb RAM
    2.40 GHz CPU

    ...I'd be more specific if I knew what anything else meant

    Thanks!
    Tags: None
    • Batman
      Lord of Digital Video
      Lord of Digital Video
      • Jan 2002
      • 2317
      #2
      Have you made any recent changes to your system configuration? If not, then there may be some issue with the card, considering that this malfunctioning is a recent phenomenon.

      You may want to explore the tv-out properties of your card.

      BTW, with my ATI Radeon 9000 mobile, I have connected to multiple telivision sets (via an S-VIDEO cable) and used the tv-out functionality and have to date, witnessed no such problems.

        Comment

        • muteme
          Junior Member
          Junior Member
          • Jun 2004
          • 26
          #3
          If I plug the video cable into a scart adaptor and hook it up to my TV that way, it gets rid of the weird flickery colour saturation, the screen looks more 'settled' is the way I'd describe it, but I'm still left with this grey murky quality. It makes all the colours look kind of lifeless on my TV, whereas on my monitor I can see everything's fine really. Not sure what I can do to alter it, the ATI driver doesn't really offer many options for configuring the TV display.

            Comment

            • muteme
              Junior Member
              Junior Member
              • Jun 2004
              • 26
              #4
              Hi Batman The only recent change I've made is to switch my power supply, as the one I was using kept causing my computer to restart itself.

              If I go into Display Properties > Advanced > Displays > TV ... I have options to change contrast, colour saturation, screen position/size, composite sharpness, dot crawl, flicker removal, and format (PAL/NTSC). None really seem to affect it.

              Do you think it'd be worth reinstalling the video card? Or is that a bit dramatic?

              The thing is, things are still watchable on my TV, but it sucks the life out of everything, like watching TV through a watery grey filter.It's the kind of problem where I could learn to live with it, but don't want to settle for something half-arsed, you know?

                Comment

                Previous template Next
                Working...