[Bealzebub]

Since getting this set there are 3 things niggling me that I need answers to and I'm hoping someone here can help me.

1. Whenever I play a video or dvd, the picture sometimes appears to be speeded up ie, motion is too quick, yet the sound is fine. Can anyone tell me why this could be, and how to cure it?

2. Also, on my previous set, I had the dvd connected via a scart, which auto-switched to 16:9 where applicable on R2 dvds. Now I have it connected by component cables and it no longer does this. Does anyone know the reason why?

2. Finally, is there a subtitle button anywhere, which switches them on and off at a single press? So far it seems I have to either set them to ON or OFF.

Many thanks.

[bobcar]

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Originally Posted by Bealzebub

Since getting this set there are 3 things niggling me that I need answers to and I'm hoping someone here can help me.

1. Whenever I play a video or dvd, the picture sometimes appears to be speeded up ie, motion is too quick, yet the sound is fine. Can anyone tell me why this could be, and how to cure it?

2. Also, on my previous set, I had the dvd connected via a scart, which auto-switched to 16:9 where applicable on R2 dvds. Now I have it connected by component cables and it no longer does this. Does anyone know the reason why?

2. Finally, is there a subtitle button anywhere, which switches them on and off at a single press? So far it seems I have to either set them to ON or OFF.

Many thanks.

1. It can't possibly be too quick if sound is ok and that would be the player anyway, do you mean jerky as if missing frames?

2. Component doesn't include a widescreen switch so you have to do it manually.

3. No idea, sorry.

[Bealzebub]

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Originally Posted by bobcar

1. It can't possibly be too quick if sound is ok and that would be the player anyway, do you mean jerky as if missing frames?

2. Component doesn't include a widescreen switch so you have to do it manually.

3. No idea, sorry.

Thanks for the replies Bobcar. Regards your answer to my first question, the only way I can describe it is like when, in US shows, they artificially speed up the video to make it look, for example, like someone is drawing a gun really quick. It was particularly bad when watching an episode of the Sopranos last night, but seemed better after I'd switched off all of the motion enhancing options.

Off course, that begs the question, what's the point of having these options?

Ah, the joys of modern technology eh

[Belgarion]

You're seeing the effect of the motionflow system kicking in.

Occasionally, depending on the amount of movement on the screen, the picture can sometimes look like it's being filmed using a camcorder - when it is actually adding extra frames to increase the smoothness of moving images (known as interpolation)

You can remove this effect by changing the motion options to either Film 1 or Film 2. I would imagine you're using Film 2 or possibly Auto - I would try Film 1 first.

[Bealzebub]

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Originally Posted by Belgarion

You're seeing the effect of the motionflow system kicking in.

Occasionally, depending on the amount of movement on the screen, the picture can sometimes look like it's being filmed using a camcorder - when it is actually adding extra frames to increase the smoothness of moving images (known as interpolation)

You can remove this effect by changing the motion options to either Film 1 or Film 2. I would imagine you're using Film 2 or possibly Auto - I would try Film 1 first.

Thanks for reply, and you were spot on. Had been playing around with motionflow recently as it seemed to be causing some right problems when watching programmes shot on video.

Not sure what setting I've got the set on now, but it does seem to have cleared the problem.

[Belgarion]

Glad to help.

Incidentally, make sure you have it switched on when watching fast sports - especially motor racing - it cleans up the image very well indeed!