Full HD movie with grainy image

Hi guys, I just bought a new FULL HD TV made by Samsung. I hooked up my PC to it with a HDMI to DVI cable, the best one I could find.

My PC is decent, Core2Duo, NVIDIA 8800GTS video card, 2 gigs memory.

When I play 720p movies the image is good, very clean, but you can see that it is being stretched.

If I play a 1080p movie the image is not so good, kinda grainy. Cant really explain with words.

I uploaded screen shots of two 1080p movies.

300: img8.imageshack.us/img8/6383/1080300grainy.png

We were soldiers: img8.imageshack.us/img8/5369/1080grainy.png


I am using Media Player Classic Homecinema and Media Player with the same results.

Does any one knows why the image is so bad? And how to fix it?

I`m using Windows Vista 32bits and I have the latest nvidia driver installed.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers!

If you downloaded the file from the internet, it's probably the file was encoded using a low bit rate. What size is the file and what is the running time?

We were soldiers is 7.43 gigs and 2 hours and 18 minutes.

300 is 10.1gigs ans 1 hour and 56 minutes.

We were soldiers is 7.43 gigs and 2 hours and 18 minutes.

300 is 10.1gigs ans 1 hour and 56 minutes.Hmmm. Sure are large enough to be good HD. Not sure what the deal is.

What resolution are you sending to the TV?

The 7.43 gigs for the soldiers movie is low for an over 2 hr HD. My smallest OTA HD recordings run 5-6GB per hour (with the stream stripped).

Just what is the source of your movie files? Are they downloads as rbnick suggested? If so, you really need some HD known to be good to test it to find out if it's just the content or a problem with the connection.

i'm not too tech savvy with these things but i just know that 300 was filmed that way. it's supposed to look grainy and gritty, that's what the filmmakers were going for.

What resolution are you sending to the TV?

The 7.43 gigs for the soldiers movie is low for an over 2 hr HD. My smallest OTA HD recordings run 5-6GB per hour (with the stream stripped).

Just what is the source of your movie files? Are they downloads as rbnick suggested? If so, you really need some HD known to be good to test it to find out if it's just the content or a problem with the connection.

What codec are you encoding them to though? If the OP downloaded the HD movies they were more than likely ripped from a Blu-ray and encoded using the MPEG-4 codec. I've seen all six star was movies 1080p at about 8 GBs each (though they were captured from cable/satellite from one of the premium movie channels) and they were great quality. My point of all that was if you are encoding with MPEG-2 the size is going to different then if you were encoding using MPEG-4.

-Shark2k

Full HD is a meaningless marketing term. I am assuming you mean a 1080p TV?

Go here - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

and download,,,Terminator in 1080p and see how that compares to your other content.