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Old 25-01-2012, 03:46
BlizzardUK
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I had a Philips 37" TV that I sold yesterday as it had a problem with the timing unit, but before this happened the picture was amazingly good for Sky, I don't remember seeing much artifaction and the colours were perfect. I just picked up a 42" LCD from LG and I am really disappointed with Sky pictures, everyone's head has a fuzz around it, as though cut out. When people move it smudges and trails a bit and just looks a bit fuzzy (depends on channel usually though). This doesn't happen with DVDs or HD. I use Sky via HD and have it on 1080i, but I tried the lesser resolutions and they are worse. It reminds me of the quality I had with a Woolworths Technosonic before I got the Philips. The HD channels are fine. I know some SD channels have awful bandwidth, but how did the LCD Philips make them look like a CRT then ?

Is this just because it is 42" and 5" bigger than 37" so it is noticeable ? Or is it just a cheap panel (it was cheap) ? If it works well on HD and DVDs then does this rule out the panel ?

As I say, it is just confusing because my 37" Philips worked so well with Sky, but as it was a 720p 2006 model I could no longer get the same again, and I think it was time for 1080p.

I give it a huge thumbs up for HD (even Sky HD), amazing, but Sky SD, blurrrgh,

Any settings recommended ? It is a 42LK450U, got 5 out of 5 on Amazon from virtually everyone who reviewed it.
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Old 25-01-2012, 09:11
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If it is anything like my LG TV you can apply different picture settings for each input. So perhaps the HDMI/SCART you use for DVD is set up slightly differently to the Sky one.

But then again the bitrate off Sky will be considerably lower than DVD so you will see some difference. One thing I would advise though. Go into the picture set-up menu and turn off all the Dynamic this that and the other rubbish it has. In my experience the picture quality is only made worse with these features turned on and they can make the artefacts inherent in the low bitrate broadcast images worse.
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Old 25-01-2012, 10:45
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I agree with Chris to turn off all the gubbins on the TV however it may well just be that you have a bigger TV now. On fast moving action (especially things like football) most digital broadcast TV has to low a bit rate and you get the symptoms you mention. You don't get these on HD or DVD to anything like the same extent because of the higher bitrate.

On a smaller TV you don't notice these which is why many upgrading from a CRT to a panel are often disappointed.
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Old 25-01-2012, 13:33
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Hi, try turning off trumotion this worked for me on my lg 650t if you have a look at the av forum website you will probably find lots of advice from lg forum. chris
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Old 25-01-2012, 17:17
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Thanks guys. I will turn off all the gimmicks. I think to be fair to the TV it is probably like you all suggest, an extra 5" but I am sitting just as close as I was to the 37" TV, so it is that much bigger for me to notice artifaction. I do sit about 3ft from it when using my PC so that probably doesn't help, I should of got a smaller TV really, but oddly the 42" was cheaper than the 37" and I needed this TV as it is one of the only matte screens out there.

Just goes to show though how poor Sky TV bitrate can be on some of the standard non-premium channels. Like Sky Sports is a lot better than UK Gold for instance.
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