Digital HDD Recorder Question

[taxboy]

We've got a Panasonic TX-32LXD85 LCD TV which uses a terrestrial signal and I'm very pleased with the picture quality.

As our old VCR no longer worked with it I've splashed out on a Panasonic DMREX769 HDD recorder. The question is that the TV viewed via the HDD gives a worse quality picture than through the TV alone if this makes sense. Is this normal or have I connected it up incorrectly somewhere

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm a total noob as far as digital TV is concerned

[taxboy]

OldSkoolRS said:

Check the video output settings of the DVD recorder and see if they are set to 'RGB' or just 'Video/composite'. If the later then this is lowest quality connection and with tend to give a blury washed out image compared to using the better RGB setting. Also, some TVs allow you to use different settings per input so you should be able to adjust the brightness, contrast, etc for the DVD recorder input without upsetting the TV's internal tuner picture settings.

I'd like to say thanks for your help - I've changed the AV 1 output to RGB1 without component and the picture quality has improved.

Is it now worth buying an HDMI cable to improve DVD playback further bearing in mind the TV is not a full 1080 HDTV ?