Xbox quality

[Coach Finstock]

I've never seen a forum as it launched - Im always on the bandwagon about 6 years later. Still, if anyone wants to talk to me about 360 download quality, i need it bad. Every movie i have had was shocking in terms of quality. Can I fix this? Have i done something wrong? Someone's gotta tell me.

[NaughtyDrunkenMonkey]

Are these downloaded movies or from DVDs?

If downloaded did you download the right format for your TV? as there are normally HD and standard definitions available for download,

Check connection cables?

[ChunkyMonkey]

Welcome to the monkey enclosure. Now Xbox movies....

In short - and in my experience - the quality is crap. I've watched a few movise via xbox live now and they might be Hi-Def (720p) but the contrast seems way too high. The worst example of this I've seen is The Matrix. It's terrible.

My guess is that although they are using HD, to get the file sizes down to something managable they are squeezing somethng else and this is causing the problem.

I'm not a very technical monkey - but downloading HD movies from xbox and showing them on a nice 32inch Sony Bravia makes the quality dog rough. Maybe someone from Microsoft could tell us why the picture quality is so disappointing?

[NaughtyDrunkenMonkey]

Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey

I'm not a very technical monkey - but downloading HD movies from xbox and showing them on a nice 32inch Sony Bravia makes the quality dog rough. Maybe someone from Microsoft could tell us why the picture quality is so disappointing?

Ahhh thats where your going wrong you need to watch it on an 8 year old 27 inch Bush Internet TV you cant tell if it looks crap coz everything looks crap on it

[ChunkyMonkey]

I'd love to know what other people think. I'm beginning to think it's just me... Or maybe I'm going to hae to take the Xbox input on my tv and totally re-set it up for downloaded video....

[shadowman]

I assume u have hdmi cables from your x box going into your TV already

with that check your using them in your TV menu on the chance it isn’t on

check there in fully on the back and not loose in any way, nor nicked-crushed

look at your TV manual and confirm your TV supports the hd display resolution e.g. 750p for the download u get.

last thing I can think off is perhaps u need the hd 360 DVD drive hooked up also perhaps some codex or software in-on that allows the better aspects to be displayed I don’t know off hand if the drive has or does this but it is 1 less tick on what it might be.

bar that with downloading anything there is always some sort off degradation off the original though I debut it would be so much as to give you the issues you’ve had.

[mjt]

Last night I recorded The Matrix on Sky HD at 720p. I'm now going to download it via Xbox live - the HD version is 720p too.

I'll set both tv inputs to default. Then I'll get both lined up on the same frame (the Xbox and Sky HD are on different inputs), darken the room and take a photograph with the camera on a tripod and using a fixed aperture and shutter speed, switching between inputs on the tv.

The picture should be almost the same and certainly shouldn't be noticably worse.

I'm not sure if this is in any way scientific, but it will certainly work as a starting point to discuss this problem...

[mjt]

And the results are now pasted into the bottom of the review.

Any thoughts on what I did, how I did it and whether it mean anything or was a complete waste of time would be really helpful...

Click here for updated review

[NaughtyDrunkenMonkey]

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