You may want to compare the cable boxes converter to your tvs built in one.

Most cable channels look too fuzzy now with the exception of the premium ones like HBO.

The tvs are essentially the same just one model year apart. I think most flaws can be overlooked and gotten used to but I do know how hard it is to ignore something once you know it's there.Ĭlick to expand.I can imagine because I recently moved from a smallish 46 inch 1080P Samsung to 55 inch 1080P Samsung. Then it's stretched to fit your screen either by the box or your TV and it'll never be that clean of an image. It's possible it's further compressed before arriving at the cable box. I don't know what kind of compression is used by cable companies. The image is obviously compressed by the network and sent over. Not bad in that it's outright unwatchable, but it has artifacts and you can tell the image isn't clean and crisp. I think 1080p content looks great on my JS9000 but 720p and even 1080i OTA stuff looks pretty bad at times. I ditched cable and only use OTA and streaming now. So many times scaling the picture can cause problems sure. Most Cable and OTA content is not 1080p, and some of it is upscaled by the cable box and then upscaled again by the TV. Since only LG makes OLEDs now it's possible that some of the complaints from OLED owners would be alleviated with better processing. I think at least some of it might be that LG's video processing isn't as good as Sony or Samsung. I do not know what your local Comcast headend does to local broadcast signals, but I've seen many a case where OTA looked worlds better than the same channel on a cable system. You MIGHT try bypassing cable and working with an antenna. You certainly won't get 4k from broadcasters, so that leaves ESPN for sports and maybe Discovery for pretty nature stuff. While I can see a FEW 4k channels, I don't see many coming along as it sucks a lot of bandwidth on providers who are already using SDV to milk more out of what they have. The game on our O&O Fox station had lots of swimming grass and wasn't nearly as pretty as the same game on my CRT HD RPTV.Īnd you're talking IF cable providers increase quality. The game on the local O&O CBS station looked a little soft, but very nice. As luck would have it, I was at a friend's house over the weekend. 1080p will look better on your display than 720p and way better than 480i.Īnd a lot will depend on the provider. Your set has to guess at what the missing pixels should be.Įver blow up a photo you took with your cell phone? Looks fine ON your cell phone, but fill a 19-inch monitor with it and - unless you used that Nokia Windows phone with the 40 megapixel camera - it looks like crap. We went through a lot of this back when people with HDTVs tuned to DSS standard-definition channels.

My tv is 1080p but shows 720p