Hi,
I have one of those infamous Samsung Slim Fit TV's, which I am very pleased with, but I cant work out why Freeview is such poor quality via RGB SCART.
I pass my DVD player through the Freeview box, which outputs RGB too, and its a great picture, so its not the TV is it??
Thanks.

[Tight Git]

Jackam,

It should be fairly easy to trace the problem by swapping things around.

From your description, it sounds like you have a poor Freeview signal.

Was it ok previously? Can you try it with another TV?

What quality Scart leads do you have?

Good luck.

[per-Sony-fied]

As a general rule Freeview will always be worse than a DVD signal.... expect it to look better than the analogue signal tho'.

I know the SCART cable is good cos the DVD player passes through the Freeview box and the picture is excellent. I know the Freeview box is good cos it looks great on my previous TV. Whats strange, is that on Freeview only, it looks better when I set it to Composite from RGB. RGB just looks grainy and blocky...?

[per-Sony-fied]

Are you sure the tube is within spec? Poor convergence can cause this sort of ill.... the better the signal the better the pic will look. Freeview with it's poor bit rates on most of the stations can be highlighted with a more revealing tube and when convergence is out can make the pic look quite bad.

[avanzato]

Ironically I find that with composite being a rubbish video signal it actually hides some of the problems of the rubbish Freeview picture.

Have you turned down the sharpness control on the TV?
Sharping really accentuates the blocking and compression artifacts of the Freeview transmissions.