Hi all, I've owned a DSC-M1 since end of December '05 and have recorded quite a few MPEG4 clips and have primarily played back on my Mac which has been fine. Recently I burned some clips to DVD and played back on my TV and the quality is actually pretty disappointing. The video looked blocky and distorted...not really sharp. I wouldn't expect it to be as clear as a DV camcorder but still not that bad. Last week I purchased the Sanyo Xacti C5 and the playback was just as bad. I've got a plasma 50" so I'm not certain if that's the cause, i.e. it may look better on a 32" CRT? If this is normal, then I may consider switching back to a DV camcorder. Cheers, Sean
The resolution is too high... in DVD ( MPEG2) format you are up-converting an MPEG4 image to MPEG2. moreover, the images are designed for playback at 640 x 480 so as you increase the play-back resolution, the quality will become worse. I would have thought newer LCD/plasma sets would automoatically recognize the native resolution and play back in 640 x 480 and am a bit surprised that such sets do not automatically configure to the best display....
I've done fairly extensive video....soccer & basketball...........editing and burning using ULEAD Video Studio 8 and its MPEG4 plug-in......and burned to DVD............playing on a 27 inch T.V., the playback quality is much better than I expected...... Playing back the native file on a computer LCD seems to produce artifacting...but I've concluded that is more a result of the response time of the LCD....usually LCD are fairly slow....newer LCDs are better.....
Hello, You spoke about burning a DVD. Have you tried connecting directly your M1's TV out (yellow jack) to your TV set? If the quality level is same in direct connection using the MS as original carrier as with the DVD then "ite missa est", otherwise there is an issue with the DVD burning like reencoding of mpeg4 into mpeg2, maybe some quality parameters to tweek in a remote menu....
106 views
Usually answered in minutes!
×