My Mates Is Better Than Mine.

[Cortex]

I've been round to my mates house and watched Monsters Inc. and his TV setup was alot more vidid than mine.

Briefly explaining...

He has a Sony Wega (one of te first ones about 18 month+ old) and a Pioneer 717.

The picture colours were a lot more in your face and the picture depth was unbelievable, is this progressive scanning.

My current setup (until this week) was Toshiba 28" 5.1 TV + Pioneer 515.

I have also seen this style of depth on a plasma screen.

Little Help

 

[Kevo]

There are a couple of possibilities re your m8's set up...

100Hz TV
RGB SCART using a high quality lead?

btw, the 717 is a quality player and probably better build than the 515

 

[groundy]

Originally posted by Cortex
I've been round to my mates house and watched Monsters Inc. and his TV setup was alot more vidid than mine.

Briefly explaining...

He has a Sony Wega (one of te first ones about 18 month+ old) and a Pioneer 717.

The picture colours were a lot more in your face and the picture depth was unbelievable, is this progressive scanning.

Neither the Sony Wega nor the Pioneer 717 support Progressive Scanning so this was not the case.

Was his a 32" set? Perhaps his contrast/colour/sharpness settings are better calibrated?

As Kevo says, the 717 was a quality player for it's time and it still probably performs better than the 515 but the 717 alone would not be responsible for the level of improvement you noticed.