“How good is the picture when using a VCR? I have some old vhs movies that I show to friends/ family when they come and visit me, and I have heard a lot of the new hi def tvs have a hard time displaying vhs video (in the sense that is blurry, and gets distorted, etc.) Does this tv have any adjustments to make vhs quality video better? I understand that vhs format shouldn't look spectacular on the hd tv but my buddies say some hdtvs make the video quality worse than how it looked on the old sets.”
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To minimize this effect on an HDTV, use settings that "soften" the picture (or make it less sharp, or reduce the frequency response.) Using "Movie" mode will help with this. Avoid modes called "Dynamic" or"Vivid" or "Sports", which will make your VHS movie look worse (noise artifacts more visible.) You can also turn down "Sharpness" in your picture settings. (Movie mode does this for you.) Also look in your menu for picture settings such as "Digital Clean View" or"Noise Reduction". Turning these on may help. Here is why: The problem is that an HDTV has a native resolution that about twice that of your standard definition VCR, both horizontally and vertically. So, in other words, the HDTV is displaying about 4 times as much information (or 4 times as many "dots") on the screen as your VCR is providing. The TV has to create information to fill in between the "dots" to be able to fill the screen. Different HDTVs have different methods for creating this extra information. The simplest method is interpolation - basically creating something that is an "average" of what is on either side - or "connecting the dots." Some TV manufacturers have more sophisticated algorithms to determine what to create to fill in. For very sharp, high-quality standard definition source material (such as from a DVD), these can work well - and yield a picture that looks almost HD. But, if the source material is low resolution or noisy, this does not necessarily give a good picture. The noise can trick the TV into filling in something that doesn't look good. Pre-recorded movies on VHS may not be too bad, but something recorded from poor quality analog cable TV will be noisy, and if it was recorded at a slow speed (4, 6, or 8 hour speed) the quality will be even worse. Other suggestions: Assuming that your VHS movies are 4:3 aspect ratio (not widescreen), you might try setting your TV to display them in 4:3 (black bars on the side.) Otherwise, it will stretch them horizontally to fill the screen, which can make things look worse. Also, your picture will be better (more detail, less noisy) if you connect the VCR to the TV using the video & audio (yellow, white, and red) connectors rather than the RF (cable TV type connector on channel 3 or 4.) Even with the suggestions above, it still may not look ideal, but it should at least look somewhat better than it would otherwise. I hope this is helpful.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I have watched 27 old VHS movies on my new set and the picture quality is fine. I have not had any problem with old VHS movies.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Dvd picture is wonderful. Although, I did switch to an HDMI cable and the picture quality is even better.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Well the tv has noise cancellation of poor video signal that may be Substandard. As you may know vcr transmission is sort of outdated and I have not tried it yet. I suppose it may spruce up the signal a bit but wont upconvert the vcr signal to almighty hd.
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