How to improve SD picture quality on HDTV

[Lucas]

Originally Posted by rtwhbw

I use directv (serial controlled) to feed my wintv150 card via coaxial cable, from my intergated card on my dell 2.8 ghz, I go to LCD tv via VGA (what ever the monitor hook up is. I have heard some say to go s-video.

THe decoders I am using are sage mpeg decoder both audio and video. I tried the nvidia decoders but keep getting errors.

Rusty

Coaxial connection is the worse connection to use. I concur with the others that you should also try a better decoder, either Nvidia, WinDVD or PowerDVD.

I use svideo or composite from my STBs and the quality is decent even when blowing the picture up to a 92inch projection screen via an LCD PJ.

[mike1961]

Ideally for the best SD picture quality you want to connect the sVideo from the cable box into the tuner card in the computer and also it's very important to connect the computer's VGA to the LCD VGA. I found far worse quality when any other signal besides VGA went to the LCD.

Mike