IBARA Picture and Sound quality issue on PS2 on HDTV

[Salsa Party Animal]

I got Ibara for Jap PS2 this morning and gave it a quick bash.

I think the sound is awful as I can't hear the shoot them ups action very clearly and the speech is fine and tried turning up the volume.

The picture is a little blocky.

Is this due to connecting my PS2 on HDTV via component or the game graphics. I think it is first time I play Shoot them up on my new TV.

[Kron]

The picture is blocky because its been adapted to display at a higher resolution and has also been filtered, It doesn't look great on a standard def TV via RGB scart either.

It will look even worse being scaled on a HDTV because of the murky filtering which will probably add even more blur than normal.

[Team Andromeda]

Also are you using the digital Out for the sound ?. Becasue SEGA Rally had much the same troubles (muffled sound) through component , but is bloody ace thought digital

[Salsa Party Animal]

Digital Out ? is that via optical ? or red/white audio pins

[Team Andromeda]

Digital Out ? is that via optical ? or red/white audio pins

Yeah Optical mate, even if a game doesn't have digital surround sound support ect, it will always sound better through Digital/Optical.