help!!!!!!!

[kevin]

After much deliberation, I just bought a sony KV36HS510 36" flat
screen hdtv, and upgraded to a sony cinematic progressive scan dvd
player with all the best wires and monster cables. I even bought a
surge protector that you run the cable thru to clean the "noise" out
of the cable. I have regular time warner cable. Here is my problem:
My cable, vcr and dvd picture all look worse than before. They all
looked crisp with my 27" sony trinitron and sony dvd with just svideo
and coaxial cables. Why after all the upgrading does the picture look
worse. I can sort of understand the cable, since the bigger the tv,
the more you see the imperfections magnified, but the dvd should look
perfect, not grainy.

Any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks
kevin

[Jordan]

Check that picture signal wires aren't running parrallel to power cords
(if possible).

Your Progressive Scan DVD Player is hooked up with component video
cables correct? If not then you need to as component video is the only
way to use progressive scan, s-video will not work.

Make sure your DVD player is in progressive scan mode (this may be a
setting in your menu, and click of a button on the remote, or you may
have to look on the back of the player and move a switch).

In your dvd player and your TVs setup menu there will be something like
progressive conversion. Set that to either film or auto. This will
make the player function properly with movies filmed at 24 frames per
second.

Also, set your TVs contrast to below half way...it's probably at 100
right now or whatever your highest setting is, drop it down to somewhere
below half way. Also lower your brightness and sharpness. You should
find a movie with the THX logo on it (star wars films, planet of the
apes, signs, terminator 2, ect..)

Run the THX Optimizer's video tests to set up your picture correctly.

HOpe this helps.

[MT Head]

Are your aspect ratios correct? HDTV is a wider screen; if you're watching
video formatted for regular TV everything gets stretched sideways and looks
like hell. To get the right aspect ratio you have to put up with gray
borders on the left and right.

Also, your DVD player may still be assuming that it's hooked up to a
regular TV - it may also have a setting for output aspect ratio.