Tweaking tv out display...

[BluDChyLD]

I've recently hooked my radeon 9000 pro to my television for watching movies. I've got no problems with it, but the picture looks very different from the one displayed on my monitor.

Although is it perfectly watchable, when comparing the same image on the montitor the colours seems a lot dimmer with darker skin tones. I've lowered the colour saturation on my tv out to stop as it was way too high, and ive played with the controls on my tv but I still can't get the image still looks different.

I realise that tvs and monitors display in very different ways, so is there any point trying to replicate my monitors image? The tv im using is quite old...
Thanks for any help,
BluDChyLD

[Kb_cruncher]

Colours on tv will always be different to a monitor.if you spend more time in front of a monitor,like i do,then your likley to notice a big change.an upgrade to a bigger,better tv would give a much better picture too.

[midiguy]

I have never touched TV OUT on my video card, but a friend of mine has. he didn't have the best luck with it when playing back his DivX 5.02 encoded movies.. The picture on the TV wasn't that good, and he tried this using multiple computers and multiple TVs, only to get pretty much the same result.. he really wanted to watch his backed-up movies on his TV though, so I told him if he wanted to that badly, just to encode them in SVCD and to paly it back on his DVD player. The result on the TV was much better, although the quality of the movie was lower compared to the DivX 5.02 version of it. if you played both back on your regular computer using a regular monitor, you would clearly see that the DivX version is superior. but using the TV OUT for the DivX and the DVD player for the SVCD, the SVCD one looked significantly nicer... the hardware MPEG-4 players are coming very soon though, so it should all be good!

[BluDChyLD]

what card has your friend got? Nvidia have been known for poor tv out, thats why I went for ati.

I'm really happy with the quality so far, the setup isn't the best... Svideo cable with rca adaptor to hook up to my vcr, then a standard aerial lead connected to my tv.