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6 Responses to 'Why does the regular cable picture look bad on my new lcd, it was better on my tube tv?'

1. G - January 7th, 2009 at 1:39 pm

   It sounds like you’re going to have to subscribe to HD television.

2. 3dhomejoe - January 8th, 2009 at 11:31 pm

   you need to get HDTV for it to look just as good as it did before and better

3. Dad's found yer scoo'er - January 12th, 2009 at 10:59 am

   Depends how you are connecting the cable box. It should give a reasonable picture via the S-VHS output, if not have a go at your cable company to get a new one.

4. Elijah C - January 12th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

   its because the regular cable picture was “low-quality” but it didn’t matter because Tube televisions aren’t able to display fine details.

   so you were living in a world of “blissful ignorance”…like a half blind man enjoying a 5 year olds finger painting as if it were a Monet or Picasso.

   but when you upgraded to a High quality Television, it displayed the “low-quality” regular cable picture as just that, a “low-quality” picture.

   you are now someone with good eye sight that is now viewing the 5 year old finger painting, as a mess , because you can now Actually SEE what you are looking at.

   …sorry if i confused you with the metaphors

   you must also upgrade your cable programming to HD,

   I think the Bravia X model includes, a special option that is specifially designed for increasing the quality of “standard definition” cable signals.

   look through your service manuals.

   good luck.

   (low-quality can be interchanged with the word “standard definition at any time)

5. Daniel - January 15th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

   All new HDTV’s are built for HD programming. If you don’t get HD programming, LCD’s will look worse than your old TV, which is what you are experiencing.

   I work at a major electronics retailer, and whenever someone buys a new HDTV, we always highly, highly, highly, recommend upgrading to HD cause people always complain that their older TV looked better.

6. TV TECH-man® - January 16th, 2009 at 6:35 pm

   Your OLD Tube TV was designed around 480i signals….

   Your NEW TV is designed for 1080i, and it has to still convert the 480 signals to 1080….

   CONVERSIONS always add some distortion to the signal….

   Snow on your TV set is caused by the tuner’s MIXER CONVERTING your signal.
   Color shifting is caused by your Color Demodulators…
   Blurry Blocks is caused by your Analog to Digital Converters…

   Conversions are a necessity, but when we get MORE HD channels we won’t be seeing the A/D conversions using HDMI…..

   That’s the promise of the NEW TECHNOLOGY….
   So you’ll just have to use the OLD TV for the OLD signals, and you’ll be happy with the results.

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