Wendelius
05-03-2002, 19:36
I write this hoping some of you can provide some tips on how best to set-up this TV. It just arrived today (replacement by John Lewis for my Hitachi TV that blew up a couple of months ago).
I watched Shrek and found the pictures really good. But tonight I started watching Sky Digital and I'm very disappointed.
The picture has what I guess must be called an overly processed and noisy (grainy?) look. But since I'm not sure about the terms, let me explain:
- People's faces and background seem to exhibit some dithering (not smooth transitions from colour to colour) and you can nearly see dots on the object/person.
- There is a digital (as in, can't do straight lines, ...) look to some situations.
- There is some very faint ghosting near people when they move.
My wife compared it to watcing DVD movies on the computer (where we tend to get the dithering, jagged line look).
I tried various things. The Natural Motion mode and the Digital Scan one seems to exhibit the problem more than plain 100Hz. I set the Digital Noise Reduction to a minimum. I also switched off the Active Control (automatically sets brightness/contrast/... base don signal and conditions) but am not sure whether that helped or not.
But all this doesn't seem to improve the picture quality much. In fact, when you stand close to the TV and look at people's faces or hair when they move, you nearly feel like you're looking at a compressed computer picture (a bit fuzzy, blocks, ...).
I can't remember my Hitachi looking like this. I know it's been a couple of months but I would remember. My Digibox is going in as RGB by the way.
I then decided to check a movie DVD to see what faces would look like there. When I switch on the DVd Player, the inout doesn't appear as RGB but CVBS (and that wether I plug in the DVD in AV1 or 2). Does anyone know what this is?
I then went directly to the scene where John Doe takes the cops to the desert. The electric lines are jagged, but I guess that this could be expected. However, even Freeman's hat seem to have jagged edges. And once again, the picture looks a bit blotchier than I remember. That's in plain 100Hz.
I've read that this TV can display a very good picture. So what's happening here? Those problems are too obvious for such a costly TV, aren't they? Any idea what I need to change to fix all this? I certainly didn't expect Satellite and DVD to start looking like I'm dealing with a computer picture that's been compressed too much.
Any help from knowledgeable Philips owners (and others) would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Wendelius
I watched Shrek and found the pictures really good. But tonight I started watching Sky Digital and I'm very disappointed.
The picture has what I guess must be called an overly processed and noisy (grainy?) look. But since I'm not sure about the terms, let me explain:
- People's faces and background seem to exhibit some dithering (not smooth transitions from colour to colour) and you can nearly see dots on the object/person.
- There is a digital (as in, can't do straight lines, ...) look to some situations.
- There is some very faint ghosting near people when they move.
My wife compared it to watcing DVD movies on the computer (where we tend to get the dithering, jagged line look).
I tried various things. The Natural Motion mode and the Digital Scan one seems to exhibit the problem more than plain 100Hz. I set the Digital Noise Reduction to a minimum. I also switched off the Active Control (automatically sets brightness/contrast/... base don signal and conditions) but am not sure whether that helped or not.
But all this doesn't seem to improve the picture quality much. In fact, when you stand close to the TV and look at people's faces or hair when they move, you nearly feel like you're looking at a compressed computer picture (a bit fuzzy, blocks, ...).
I can't remember my Hitachi looking like this. I know it's been a couple of months but I would remember. My Digibox is going in as RGB by the way.
I then decided to check a movie DVD to see what faces would look like there. When I switch on the DVd Player, the inout doesn't appear as RGB but CVBS (and that wether I plug in the DVD in AV1 or 2). Does anyone know what this is?
I then went directly to the scene where John Doe takes the cops to the desert. The electric lines are jagged, but I guess that this could be expected. However, even Freeman's hat seem to have jagged edges. And once again, the picture looks a bit blotchier than I remember. That's in plain 100Hz.
I've read that this TV can display a very good picture. So what's happening here? Those problems are too obvious for such a costly TV, aren't they? Any idea what I need to change to fix all this? I certainly didn't expect Satellite and DVD to start looking like I'm dealing with a computer picture that's been compressed too much.
Any help from knowledgeable Philips owners (and others) would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Wendelius