quality issue

[supaman32052]

I ordered 3 total mag 254s.. I let my friend get 1 and I got 2.. my friend hooked his up.. and I hooked 1 of mine up..my friend says his quality looks like a dvd player is playing.. mine is the total opposite.. mine is less than 720p.. but my tv is a 1080 smart tv 48 in samsung.. I tried all of the video settings on the mag . And the quality looks like it would If u was to squinch your eyes to watch a normal tv.. any suggestions? I tried all of the video settings even tried switching tvs in my house.. tried rebooting.. now I'm stuck..

 

[theuduk]

Some channels are not all that good some quite good find most News channels good and the HD i.e. TSN, VEVO some movies like Sony are good but depends on the data they are using.

 

[supaman32052]

Ok..they all look great in the small window. But soon as I open up the screen the quality goes bad. Most of the news channels have bad quality.. the better quality channels are mostly the sport channels that I don't watch.. thanks anyway

 

[theuduk]

Did just check 205 Fox on mag254 and HD version on SV8K and found it hard to see a difference, on 46 inch tv.

 

[K00lKatT]

There is nothing wrong with your Mag, all depends on what you feed it to play, thks..

 

[supaman32052]

ok.. i havent tried it.. i dont know what sv8k is? ill check out the 205 channel in the morning when i get off work... but almost all of the channels have poor quality.. none have dvd quality but some are better than others

 

[supaman32052]

even when i tried switching tvs to a 55 inch it wasnt good quality either.. u can see the grains in the picture.. i was thinking maybe it was a setting that im not aware of..is it certain channels that u know that i shouldnt have an issue with so i could test it?

 

[theuduk]

Try a different HDMI cable?

 

[supaman32052]

When I tried a different tv the hdmi cable was different. . Thanks for the suggestion.. I wish I knew what it suppose to look like so I'll have something to go by..

 

[Alwyn71]

Ok first of all where did you buy your mag?

 

[EPAPRESS]

even when i tried switching tvs to a 55 inch it wasnt good quality either.. u can see the grains in the picture.. i was thinking maybe it was a setting that im not aware of..is it certain channels that u know that i shouldnt have an issue with so i could test it?

Please, take your MAG and go to your friend. Connect your MAG to his TV and compare. Is it the same "good" quality of both boxes?

Manfred

 

[ZurichKabel]

you seem to have your op as 480 NTSC 4:3 . you need to switch to 720p
its in the INTERNAL PORTAL ..
the fact you have got a HDMI lead connected dont mean it is 720p

 

[supaman32052]

i bought all 3 from ebay .. some part of canada.. i didnt know about infomir at the time.. i sold 1 to a guy from my job.. and he said his is at dvd quality.. mine looks about like my dreamlink t5 without the hd channels

 

[supaman32052]

good idea epapress that was going to be my next step.. im going to hook up the 3rd box this weekend to see what it looks like.. my settings is at 1080i in the settings.. i tried all of the resolution settings .. my tv will reject the low quality settings . when i put the mag on a lower quality setting my tv will tell me that the device reolution doent match up with the tv.. and no picture will show at all.. after it did that i had to take the mag to another tv and put it back on the 1080i settings.. i ave tried also the 1080p setting.. it isnt better

 

[supaman32052]

zurich , why would i have to put the setting on 720p when my tv is 1080? ill visit the internal portal tomorro.. i only went to the video settings i didnt know i could make video adjustments in the portal because im dont even know what a portal is really.. im new to mag

 

[ZurichKabel]

you cant set it to 1080i - there are no broadcasts
set to 720p
1280x720
24/60hz

you need to plug it into another TV set

 

[supaman32052]

ok thanks .. ill try it tomorro.. my mag gives me the 1080i option.. i dont think all mags are the same .. my friend has his set to the 1080i option.. ill try it your way though tomorro

 

[supaman32052]

before i ordered these mags i had another friend that came to the house to show me his mag.. thats who introduce me to fta and mag... his mag quality didnt go past 720p and it was super terrible at my house .. mine shows better than his did..some channels are better than others but most channels look like a bootlegged dvd that u buy on the streets

 

[theuduk]

Supprised you bought the mags if the demonstrator was so bad, anyway was checking again tonight and CNN looked same as sat HD version here are my video setings.

108p-60
1280-720
Auto detect DVI Off
Force Off
HDMI event Immdiately

Had the same res in the Inner portal.

 

[supaman32052]

i tried those settings .. im not familiar with inner portal.. ill check it out tomorro.. i bought the mags anyway because im down with tv without a monthly bill regardless..i need to start up a post that says what is portal.. thanks for your help.. and my cnn is a long way from high def.. the only channel that i can remember that comes very close to hd is video 2 .. that is pushing 1080 standard