Question from a new user

[kees.duif]

Hi all. I'm a XH A1 owner for 2 weeks now and have a question about the presets which can be downloaded from this very great forum.
For trying out all the downloaded presets I hooked up my A1 to my LCD TVset through the component-out as well as through AV-out.
On my TV I notice a big difference in the picture of both conenctions. The component connection shows much less contrast and color. And therefor some presets which look nice via AV-out donn't via component and vice versa. I guess that AV-out is SD quality and component out is HD quality? (did not have the time yet to read through the manual). My questions is: Since I donn't have a Blu ray burner and/or player and no real HDV TV I plan to shoot in HD, edit in HD and finalize to a SD DVD. With this in mind through which conenction can I best check the presets and thus the settings of the A1? Through component or through AV-out?

Thanks in advance
Kees

 

[Huy Vu]

Neither are accurate. You'll get a wildly difference range of color from the TV to the A1's LCD to your computer monitor regardless of connection type. These consumer displays aren't color calibrated and usually don't have the kind of calibrating options available to professional CRT monitors.