[PsychoTherapist]

I just bought a new Widescreen TV - a Ferguson FTV32110 32" Widescreen 100hz.

I set it up and noticed that the picture quality is rather poor. The best way to describe the problem, if there's a straight line on screen, slight ghosting can seen to the side of it, similar to that of a slightly mis-tuned analogue signal.

The picture is like that on everything (RGB, Svideo etc), but the TV on-screen menus are fine. No matter what picture settings I change, there is no effect on this and I have to turn the sharpness down to absolute minimum, to make it even slightly bearable.

Also, down the left & right of the screen, the image is slightly more blurred than the image in the center of the screen.

I even went as far as to enter the service menu (taking great care) and none of the settings in there have any effect either.

So is this TV faulty, or is this likely to be due to the effect of poor digital processing on this 100hz set?

[John Currie]

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Originally Posted by PsychoTherapist

I even went as far as to enter the service menu (taking great care) and none of the settings in there have any effect either.

So in other words you tweaked some of the settings (most of which you probably didn't understand) to see if it would alleviate whatever problem there is with the set.

You should have been nowhere near a service menu on a brand new set.

[broadsat]

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Originally Posted by John Currie

So in other words you tweaked some of the settings (most of which you probably didn't understand) to see if it would alleviate whatever problem there is with the set.

You should have been nowhere near a service menu on a brand new set.

If there was an award for patronising bullxxx this statement REALLY would win,and to think this forum is to help folk !!!!!!!!!!!

[PsychoTherapist]

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Originally Posted by John Currie

So in other words you tweaked some of the settings (most of which you probably didn't understand) to see if it would alleviate whatever problem there is with the set.

You should have been nowhere near a service menu on a brand new set.

Understanding of what things did, hmmm well they were marked with what they were and the current value was highlighted, but maybe I'm stupid huh? Get real!

Your reply doesn't answer my query in the slightest and infact has very little to do with my problem, so to sum up - I'll do whatever I like on any set I like, thankyou very much!

[chrisjr]

Have you tried turning off the 100Hz processing? It isn't unknown for the extra tweaking that goes on in the TV to affect picture quality. From other posts on DS it seems that viewing digital TV in particular can be sensitive to all the "picture enhancement" gizmos that 100Hz sets seem to have. Often the solution is to turn all this processing off.

So might be a place to start. After all normal telly, as broadcast, is "only" 50Hz so a 100Hz set is in effect "inventing" every other frame in the picture (for want of a better description). This may be the root cause of the problem.

[geekspeak]

Can't comment on the Furguson but I have not had any issues like you describe with an LG 100 Hz.

It does sound to me, like a faulty set but without confirmation from someone with the same set, I could not say for sure.

[mikeydb]

Could be poor cables in use causing ghost images to appear on the screen, or some general mismatch/poor connection between the video source and the tv.