Gentlemen and ladies.
Recently, I was bought a
Samsung T220HDTV, this was for my 360, to replace my previous 12" CRT. I was looking forward to receiving it, as I had heard "good stuff" about this new fangled High Definition TV malarky.
And lo, when I didst receive said TV, I saw it and I was pleased, and I said unto myself, "verily is the colour depth wondrous", and other such platitudes of delight. However, I shortly began to notice things which didst not cause delight or pleasure. Nay, in fact they cause distress, anger even.
The pixelation is appalling, playing the level 'Creek' On CoD4 is virtually impossible, as the leaves are square blobs which fluctuate with movement. Grass is a random collection of blobs on swaying lines. Lines I say, did I say lines? If only that were the case, for there appears to be no anti-aliasing at all. I saw better diagonal lines on my BBC B, 20 odd years ago.
It gets worse, upon playing Oblivion, I was battling a spider daedra, they can summon mini-spiders, when a summoning occurs, a black square appears on the screen and the summoned creature appears as if out of this. This did not occur on my CRT-TV.
Is this normal, am I being picky expecting a brand new TV to be better than my 15 yr old CRT? Or is there something wrong?
Facts: I have 1080i (It defaulted to this, I tried 720 and 1080p, no really any difference) set up in the 360, there is limited set up on the TV itself, but I have done what I am able.
The TV resolution is actually 1050.
I have it connected via the component connector from the 360, as I don't have HDMI output.
I also have my PC set up to the TV, and it is fine, wrt pixelation. Not got any comparable games to play, but CS-S is really nice and crisp. PC GFX card is not as good as 360, by a long way. The PC is connected to the VGA port, not the other digital one, whatever it is called, as I couldn't get that to work either.
Also, I tried plugging the 360 in as scart, it was awful, is this normal?
Any help/answers muchly appreciated.