Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:20 am
Thanks Rodolfo for making sense of my technical confusion... 
It is disappointing that you came here wanting to know what all that stuff means so you would select the right settings, I put forth all the effort to explain that and recommend correct settings, and in the end you simply adjusted to what your eyes told you looked best. Any one of us could have suggested that in one short sentence (would have saved me 30 minutes) but eye candy does not have anything to do with video standards, quality imaging or correct settings.
You don't know if it looks better without running a calibration DVD/blu-ray and checking video test pattern response with a final test of real world material captured for real world color on your properly calibrated display. Most don't want to do that, I understand. If you did you would turn the Enhanced feature off because you would see it creates artificial detail that corrupts test pattern response. Your eyes will tell you Enhanced looks better with an image and they should because it is eye candy! RGB is not recommended because that is not the native signal on the disc for either format (I know this is just a DVD player) and while your TV may accept RGB, because that is part of the HDMI specification, the fact is many manufacturers pay little attention to proper RGB response because we live in a YCbCr digital video world. What all of that means is selecting YCbCr is always the best option (unless your TV is DVI) and selecting RGB might very well create errors that you will have to calibrate for (or errors that your eyes might prefer). Put another way, in a perfectly calibrated world you would not see ANY difference between RGB and YCbCr with DVD and blu-ray.video priority on, enhanced hdmi on 3, RGB (set to enhanced also). I guess if it looks better then thats all that matters.
It is disappointing that you came here wanting to know what all that stuff means so you would select the right settings, I put forth all the effort to explain that and recommend correct settings, and in the end you simply adjusted to what your eyes told you looked best. Any one of us could have suggested that in one short sentence (would have saved me 30 minutes) but eye candy does not have anything to do with video standards, quality imaging or correct settings.