Shyte picture - also cuts off the screen
Cairy Lunt
Posts: 3,192
Forum Member
✭✭✭
have got virgin media digital TV installed. Does anyone else have the edges of the screen 'cut off'? Also...the picture isn't that great. We have just recently bought a HD LCD TV and the picture is better with the digital channels through the TV than it is through the virgin media box. It still seems fuzzy despite spending 30 quid on a gold plated scart cable.
Virgin suck arse
Virgin suck arse
0
Comments
Do you have the box set to widescreen and RGB?
I presume you have a normal V box and not a V+ box?
It's also worth mentioning that a lot of the extra digital tv channels do not broadcast in widescreen, so you will either end up with black bars to the sides of the picture or a stretched picture.
Cheers, thats just pee'd me right off, the matey from comet upsold me.
Bugger.
Sorry. How do i set the setting on the settop box to RGB and widescreen? I have never gone into that.
Comet suck arse. Allegedly.
I know that now!
Cheers for your help mate. Don't think i can take the cable back as the pachaging was ripped to bits.
Agreed!! When i got V+ installed the tech supplied me with a decent scart cable, all pins connected at least!
LCD and standard tv pictures just don't go even with a gold plated scart. Is it a V box or V+ box?
-Chris
another perfect example of people slagging off VM for no good reason. Read the damn user manual of your equipment before you start blaming the provider.
My other gripe is with Virgin Media installers. If they can see that they are installing a TV box on a widescreen TV, would they really be that inconvenienced to spend 5 seconds of their time to enter the setting menu and set the box to widescreen for the customer ?? The amount of virgin media boxes installed on widescreen TVs and set to stretch a image that isnt widescreen must be huge.
-Chris
I would beg to differ, yeah a digital HDMI cable it doesn’t really matter but a analogue cable like scart there is a huge difference between a £5 jobbie or a good constructed cable however having said that the ones in Currys are usually well over priced. A good Ixos or Monster cable at £30 or £40 works very well.
With a V+ box connected by HDMI I wouldent recommend putting it as low as you suggest.
-Chris
If you're happy to spend £40 on a couple of plugs and a metre of cable, you'll be delighted with these:
http://www.russandrews.com/product-Russ-Andrews-SCART-2770.htm
They're a bit more if you want a full metre and want it fully connected. Sadly they can't burn-in your scarts (extra), though.
Thanks guys. Much better now!
Virgin rock!
I am about to tell them to shove it up their a**e and im moving to sky. I have had 12 months of several channels not working, crappy jerky pictures, and when i ring to complain they say someone wil ring me back and guess what? THEY NEVER DO!!!
I just had VM installed today, all went well so far Application and welcome pack arrived on the same day also. The engineers were cool, installed TV, phone and internet fine. ALSO! showed me how to use it (Even those I know) and set the TV to widescreen cos I have one yay).
I wonder if it's just better in Wales? lol
Let see how billing goes show we?
Martyuk1
Thank God for this thread
Claire Nasir will no longer be blocked out by the evil black rectangles on my screen
On the Scart cable issue, I'm using the same one we got with the Telewest box a good few years ago. Does it really make a difference?
A bit of patience goes a long way. My experience with VM has been fine, so either you have been unlucky or your approach needs a bit of fine tuning, I'd say.
Incidentally, you won't get that huge VOD library with Sky.