Why HTPC connected LED TV looks bad?

[arunlouie]

Hi All,

Recently I have finished my HTPC build and connected to my Sony 40EX650 LED tv. I have good spec AMD 6850 GPU, which is actually a overkill for HTPC.

My issue is picture quality on normal windows are not that pleasant. Infact my 21 inch LED monitor looks good. I have tried all different options with display settings. No much help. Though videos look fine (may be I am looking more details now).
Is this because pixels in TV are bigger than that of my Full HD monitor??

Any suggestions to improve this?

 

[greenhorn]

Is this because pixels in TV are bigger than that of my Full HD monitor??

among other reasons, yes
I hope you are running at the native resolution of the display, ie 1920x1080. The same resolution will always look better on a smaller screen.

 

[manniraj]

Hi All,

Recently I have finished my HTPC build and connected to my Sony 40EX650 LED tv. I have good spec AMD 6850 GPU, which is actually a overkill for HTPC.

My issue is picture quality on normal windows are not that pleasant. Infact my 21 inch LED monitor looks good. I have tried all different options with display settings. No much help. Though videos look fine (may be I am looking more details now).
Is this because pixels in TV are bigger than that of my Full HD monitor??

Any suggestions to improve this?

You didn't mention what type of movies that you are playing to get this feeling. As I am using a bare minimum AMD based htpc and a full hd 1080p looks stunning to believe with MPC-HC+MadVR configuration. Even with close-up I hardly see any grains. But yes if you are using a lower resolution <720p then it definitely looks good on your 21" LED compared to a 40". The higher the screen size higher resolution movie file makes sense.

 

[arunlouie]

You didn't mention what type of movies that you are playing to get this feeling. As I am using a bare minimum AMD based htpc and a full hd 1080p looks stunning to believe with MPC-HC+MadVR configuration. Even with close-up I hardly see any grains. But yes if you are using a lower resolution <720p then it definitely looks good on your 21" LED compared to a 40". The higher the screen size higher resolution movie file makes sense.

My issue is not while playing movie, but when opening other applications, browser, foobar, or even a desktop.
For video I am quite satisfied, I am using PowerDVD, MPC, KM Player. Out of three I see KM Player is good in features and the image texture. KM Player is marginally better in terms of skin texture and MPC player is marginally better than KM player in terms of landscape scenes.

Desktop monitor everything looks fine, like fonts, no rough edges in Images.

 

[harsh247]

its the size buddy. the same content is stretched on a larger screen. if u view the tv from far though, the quality will seem the same

 

[saikatbiswas82]

I am almost running the same setup except the GPU (please see my signature below). Like the previous post, its all about PPI. A 22 inch Full HD monitor will have more PPI than 40 inch Full HD TV.
Just one quick suggestion. Please try XBMC for movie playback. I was a huge fan of KM Player. I switched to XBMC last year and using it ever since.

 

[aakashr]

I am almost running the same setup except the GPU (please see my signature below). Like the previous post, its all about PPI. A 22 inch Full HD monitor will have more PPI than 40 inch Full HD TV.
Just one quick suggestion. Please try XBMC for movie playback. I was a huge fan of KM Player. I switched to XBMC last year and using it ever since.

Hi, I am also very happy with XBMC but many on the forum feel MADVR + MPC HC would even further improve picture quality, what do you feel?