Soulburner
07-05-2007, 06:32 PM
So I have my component and optical cables hooked up. I'm running a BenQ 24" FP241W LCD, and Logitech Z-5500 5.1 THX speakers. The sound is great, but the picture is not.
I was worried about this, and I'm afraid my suspicions were correct - it looks like crap. Of course at 1:1 the picture is very small, a little box in the middle of the screen. It is also very pixelated already, at its native resolution. Not big enough to be really playable (or readable) I expand it with Aspect mode. Now it is really pixelated. On a tube TV the games always looked awesome (with composite cables even) and I never saw any hint of pixelation or aliasing problems, however they are all too apparent now. Everything is very blocky and there is no smoothness to the graphics at all, even the smoothest of games such as Final Fantasy X and Gran Turismo 3 look like old Windows 95 games. All "fine detail" is lost.
So, what can I do about this? Is there anything to improve the picture or should I forget this whole setup and move the PS2 back to the 27" tube TV where it looks great? I feel like I am doing something wrong but I don't know what you could do wrong. Why is there more fine detail on a 27" tube TV with composite cables than a 24" LCD with component?
I was worried about this, and I'm afraid my suspicions were correct - it looks like crap. Of course at 1:1 the picture is very small, a little box in the middle of the screen. It is also very pixelated already, at its native resolution. Not big enough to be really playable (or readable) I expand it with Aspect mode. Now it is really pixelated. On a tube TV the games always looked awesome (with composite cables even) and I never saw any hint of pixelation or aliasing problems, however they are all too apparent now. Everything is very blocky and there is no smoothness to the graphics at all, even the smoothest of games such as Final Fantasy X and Gran Turismo 3 look like old Windows 95 games. All "fine detail" is lost.
So, what can I do about this? Is there anything to improve the picture or should I forget this whole setup and move the PS2 back to the 27" tube TV where it looks great? I feel like I am doing something wrong but I don't know what you could do wrong. Why is there more fine detail on a 27" tube TV with composite cables than a 24" LCD with component?