OSD Questions

[kaudley]

Hi Folks,

I'm just completing my setup here. I've got great picture as far as TV goes, with using the Nvidia PureVideo Codec, wow what a difference! Recordings look good as well. Show Analyzer is phenomenal and the stvi to enable commercial skipping is brilliant.

My only last complaint is the OSD and the SageTV Menus. They are very fuzzy and it's almost impossible to read the show descriptions. I have a 32" television SDTV only, running composite from a GF4 mx4000 Video Card, through a Hitachi Reciever. Any suggestions on how I could improve this?

Thanks!

[hmca]

In my experience, it will never be clear. You can make it be clear-er by using your TV's on-board menus to sharpen the image and I believe most video cards w/TV out have a setting for sharpening. But after all that, it will never be as clear as a monitor.

[Steve52]

Must be an SD problem. I have a 55" RPTV HDTV running at 1080i and the STV menus and guides are all very smooth and clear. Very easy to read from across the room (12' or so).

[dflachbart]

Hi kaudley,

I have almost the same setup as you - GF MX4000 connected to a receiver via s-video, SDTV, nVidia decoder, and I have no problems with the OSD, in fact it is very clear and easy to read.

One thing which greatly improved my picture quality was to adjust the flicker-fixer setting in the nVidia options. By default it was blurring everything out, but after I adjusted it to a degree where the windows desktop seems to flicker slightly the TV pic quality got so much better.

Dirk

[garcia21]

If you have the option of using an S-Video cable I'd use that instead of the composite cables.

[stevech]

my Standard Def TV displays the menus/guide just fine. Very legible. S-Video does make a big difference vs. composite.
I use 800x600 x 24bit mode on my PC's video card. I suspect that's typical.

[davin]

640x480 desktop through s-video to my 27" sony wega SDTV tube looks great... very sharp. I second the flicker filter comment... if it's set too high it will blur out everything. I'm using geforce 6150 integrated graphics.

[ozfiles]

I started off using composite but since using s-video connections I have never looked back as others have said it gives you a very crisp picture for text and general video content.