Xbox One New HDTV same wiring, TV picture worse.

[rkkeller]

I have had the Xbox One since day one and it was always hooked to my TiVo Roamio to a medium quality 73" HDTV. Picture looked fine and everything worked well.

I just bought a higher end quality 60" HDTV and connected the Xbox One with the same TiVo and same HDMI cables and it actually degrades the images quality of "TV ONLY" pass thru a little bit. Games look fine, but the TV picture and even sound are a little worse than if I ran the TiVo direct to the TV.

FWIW, most might never even notice. Am I seeing things or could it actually be a little worse on a higher end HDTV?



Thanks,

Rich

 

[SeanM]

Quality is realtive, I remember I had a one of those off brand chinese HDTVs and it worked great with my 360, but then i got a Samsung smart OLED tv as a gift... the picture is much suckier than it was on the chinese TV... so I play my games on the Chineses one...

 

[sc_shark]

ive said it before

i have a cheap no no name 4k tv that i payed 500 bux for that blows my parents 1080 lg out of the water and thats running 720on xb1(games are not 1080 so default xb1 play thru is 720...

its really what your eyes are use to.. it may be color saturation or going from led to plasma ect ect.. allot of variables

 

[jbeavis100]

Try playing with the colour saturation if you can, it can really help that issue..

 

[heavensdevil]

You could always try to tweak the options in the TV menu and see how it goes. Try messing with the brightness, sharpness, and contrast and see how it goes. When gaming, try to turn off all post processing things and better still, if there's a "Game Mode" use that instead as it's usually set to optimize gaming.

 

[rkkeller]

Thanks, I will try a couple of the things mentioned above.

It's just odd that the picture is amazing without going thru the Xbox One, but once connected it's a tiny bit worse, even the sound changes.

It must be a setting somewhere.

 

[Gringo]

So you are saying you tried running the cable box to TiVo, straight to the new tv and it looked fine. Then you pass it through the Xbox and it does not look as good? Don't see how it could be a setting on the tv. Maybe just that extra HDMI cable in the mix. I would try a different one or swap them around to see if that makes a difference.

 

[rkkeller]

So you are saying you tried running the cable box to TiVo, straight to the new tv and it looked fine. Then you pass it through the Xbox and it does not look as good?

Yes. I think it must be an Xbox One setting as even the sound is changed some once run thru the Xbox One.
It's not a big difference, but I have not fooled with it yet. I don't use the kinect anymore and don't need the guide
so I am OK switching inputs when playing a game.

 

[sc_shark]

this may sound very stupid..

if you go into setting(xb1) check your video.. if you have it at 1080 or 720... i actually keep mine at 720 because most games are 720

pushing thru with tivo i cant say but depends on the compression.. only think i could say would be.. the feed is being processed twice and buffered. the tivo may be pushing one thing but the xb1 still has to process it and uncompress it

wasnt their talks about xb1 not being able to control dvr and such.. that may be a reason.. idk.

 

[Gringo]

I thought I read the Xbone does not process the TV/cable signal.