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Old 23-06-2005, 12:46
The Lord Lucan
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Recently bought one of these for the second sky box for watching sport when i'm in the dog house

However.. I have a few problems with it.

Firstly screen graphics seem to have squint edges ie the Sky info (now/next) bar is not straight at the ends.. especially if the program being played is bright or the settings are anything more than dim ( i'll get a pic up in a minute )

I also cannot get a code for either the Sky or Sky+ remote to work on it. They all do nothing.

Also the Service Menu "trick" does not work with this samsung..

Argh.. Anyone?
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Old 27-06-2005, 03:36
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As I said the other week on another thread about this TV - 'Sorry to spoil things for you even further mate, but that TV won't even 4:3 in RGB. My parents have that TV, and when watching Sky, the TV will not allow 4:3. If you select 4:3 on the TV remote, it stays in 16:9 - the picture stays all stretched, yuck. The only way to get round it is to set the digibox to display in PAL, the picture is not as sharp, but then the TV will allow 4:3. Absolute crap that TV.'

That TV handles RGB so badly, not only is the picture locked to 16:9, but the picture gets pushed up and right, which again is abnormal - usless if anything is close to the top of the screen. As on other TV's, RGB pushes the picture to the left only.

Those Samsung widescreen Plano's are absolute usless for digital television. Why do Samsung even bother? What is the point in a widescreen TV that won't 4:3 in RGB???

And also, yes, my parents Samsung 28" widescreen Plano, has that bending of vertical lines problem - again yuck. The edges of the Sky EPG are all crooked. Also, if there was say for example a block of flats in a program, they look all wobbly. The same goes for any other things that are vertical and straight.
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Old 27-06-2005, 11:31
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I had a Samsung 24" (Not Plano) and it was just as bad.

Picture wobbling, vertical line bending and it couldn't actually do 16:9 when using RGB. It would be shifted up and right as you put it.

My brother has one of the Samsung 28" Plano TVs and it has been a bit dodgy, but I don't think he would ever switch it back to 4:3.
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