32" Toshiba Regza LCD HDTV?

Question

I just bought this TV last night, I haven't upgraded to HD Cable yet, But the picture while watching cable seems to be a tiny but fuzzy, the color is great and all, For example while John Mccain was giving a speech this morning I could not make out his American Flag pin. I mean its not terrible like to where I cant see anything just a little blurry. Is there a setting or something I can change? Help please.

Answer 1

Your number one problem is that you are not yet watching  HD content.

SD content is broadcasted with 480 lines of vertical resolution but your TV has over 720 vertical lines. Your TV must up-convert around 300,000 broadcasted pixels per frame to over 1,000,000 pixels per frame on screen. Up-conversion will always result in less on-screen detail and sharpness. There is no magic setting that will fix this. You can adjust the sharpness setting in your picture menu, but you will still have less than desirable results. With an HDTV: garbage in = garbage out. Get an HD service.

A digital converter will not help. In fact, a digital converter will hurt your picture quality. An HDTV already has a digital tuner. Converting clean digital signals with a converter box to a low resolution, noisy analog signal for your HDTV to receive can ONLY drop picture quality. In fact, not all convert boxes support analog pass-thru, so this solution could block all the analog clear channel programing from even getting to your new HDTV. There's an improvement!

Answer 2

There are a couple of things that might help you such as upgrading to digital cable and getting a digital converter for the 2009 dtv switch.so you could use the converter to make the picture better with out having to pay for the hd cable.