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I've messed with my settings and can not get a good picture with regular DVDs on my PS3. They look very grainy. I'm using a HDMI cable and when I play a DVD through my 360 (via component) the picture is much better. I thought with HDMI and upscalling my DVDs would look better (much better) on the PS3. I'm thinking there must be some setting I'm just not doing right. Any advice? I've read many people talking about how good their DVDs look playing them through their PS3 but I'm having the opposite effect. Thanks in advance. I'm going nuts wondering what I am doing wrong.
 
Did you set upscaling to full? It doesn't do it automatically. That's what mine it set at, and it looks great. During playback hit select and then I think choose video settings or video quality and you can switch between off, double and full upscaling.
 
Yeah I have upscaling at full. Tried all the upscalling settings. Of course it looks better than off, but still nothing like it shoud, still very grainy. Hmmm....
 
each dvd has different quality too. There's only so much upscaling can do for a crappy dvd transfer.
 
I second the transfer quality comment. Try a few different DVDs and see what it looks like. I thought the opening 10 minutes of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was wretched when upscaled, but the rest of the movie played fine. Also upscaling an older movie (lets say the OG Night of the Living Dead) is going to look a hell of a lot different than a newer movie (the newest (re-re-release of Blade Runner).

dan
 
I have the PS3 set to my tv's highest res 1080i. I tried the same DVDs between the 360 (non HDMI) andt he PS3 and they look much better on the 360 and I know that shouldn't be the case. Just VERY grainy through the PS3. Hmmmm. Keep the suggestions coming. Thanks again!
 
Have you check the video/picture settings on your TV? Usually you'll have different modes like Dynamic, Mild, Custom/User, etc. A good number of TV's store different video settings for each input. So check what your xbox (component) is set at and make sure the PS3 (HDMI) is set the same. If you are using a custom setting for one of them, I'd try toggling each option on/off and watch for a difference.

What kind of TV?
 
Do you have your RGB color settings to "Full" and Super White to "on"?

Other than that, bump your PS3 down to 720p (disable 1080i) and see if it gets better.
 
Atken, good idea. I'm 90% sure I have the tv settings at the same as my 360. I have a Panasonic 42" plasma. model # escapaes me, the one with the anti-reflective coating on it. Great tv by the way.
mtxbass1, I have the super white on - couldn't tell any difference with it on or off. RGB might be on auto, but I tried changing that setting as well with no difference. I actually tried switching from 1080i to 720p and no difference again. When I let my PS3 select the best res it wanted to do it at 1080p (which my tv doesn't support) I went ahead with it and still no difference.

Thanks again for the advice.
 
[quote name='Viva Las Vegas']Atken, good idea. I'm 90% sure I have the tv settings at the same as my 360. I have a Panasonic 42" plasma. model # escapaes me, the one with the anti-reflective coating on it. Great tv by the way.
mtxbass1, I have the super white on - couldn't tell any difference with it on or off. RGB might be on auto, but I tried changing that setting as well with no difference. I actually tried switching from 1080i to 720p and no difference again. When I let my PS3 select the best res it wanted to do it at 1080p (which my tv doesn't support) I went ahead with it and still no difference.

Thanks again for the advice.[/quote]

Viva, here are my settings. Both my 1080p projector and my 1080p TV look much better than the 360 with DVD playback.

Cinema Conversion: Automatic
DVD Wide Display: Letterbox
DVD Upscaler: Double Scale
BD/DVD Video Output Format (HDMI): Automatic
BD/DVD Dynamic Range Control: Automatic

Both are connected via HDMI.
 
[quote name='Viva Las Vegas']Atken, good idea. I'm 90% sure I have the tv settings at the same as my 360. I have a Panasonic 42" plasma. model # escapaes me, the one with the anti-reflective coating on it. Great tv by the way.
mtxbass1, I have the super white on - couldn't tell any difference with it on or off. RGB might be on auto, but I tried changing that setting as well with no difference. I actually tried switching from 1080i to 720p and no difference again. When I let my PS3 select the best res it wanted to do it at 1080p (which my tv doesn't support) I went ahead with it and still no difference.

Thanks again for the advice.[/quote]

42PZ770 ? make sure the aspect ratio is set to HD size 2 and enable Frame & Block noise reduction. Which can be accessed only during playback ( triangle button via your sixaxis controller under AV settings iirc) Unfortunately, I wouldn't recommend using the default presets on your plasma. (I previously owned the 42PZ700 before upgrading to a Samsung 4671)

Here are some calibrated settings using Avia2 from jtsarnak on AVS

Picture Mode: Standard
Picture: +9
Brightness: +8
Color: -1
Tint: -2
Sharpness: -10
Color temp.: Normal
Color mgmt: Off
 
Thanks again for all the help. I feel really stupid but the main problem was what Atekn mentioned. My HDMI input picture settings went back to the factory default - which are terrible. mtxbass1, thanks for those settings. I'll play with that and check yours out to fine tune things. Denze, thanks, yeah soon as I got my Panny I was checking out the AVS forums for pic setting preferences.
 
Glad you got it figured out. I did the EXACT same thing with my PS3. The default settings on the TV looked like crap and I was only looking at PS3 settings since I knew I had already tweaked the TV. I didn't realize at first that each of my inputs retained their own picture settings and I hadn't used that 3rd HDMI port before. :wall:
 
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