[Crazytrekker]

Well I just took the plunge and upgraded my trustee 28" Panasonic CRT for a Panasonic TX-32LZD85 LCD display.

I'm a little disappointed. Ok, VERY disappointed.

While Blu-Ray performance is first class, the SD pictures received or upscaled by the Panny are almost totally ruined by what looks like excessive D-NR. Images look as if they're being overly processed. It's affecting everything: DVD, Sky, Freeview (anything that's upscaled).

For example:

Watching a US movie trailer (R1 DVD), the first screen showing the certificate is white on green/red/whatever. The letters are oversharpened and have an incredible amount of MPEG noise around them (creating an unnatural "blocky" text effect). It's doing the same thing to moving images and other on-screen texts (I'm using a Denon 2930 as my upscaler by the way, set to HDMI RGB 1080p, and v1.3a Panasonic HDMI cables)

The Sky menu - the options on the screen "Entertainment", "News", "Movies" etc are all surrounded by MPEG noise.

Is all this "normal"?

The sharpness setting on my display is set to NIL and the D-NR is also to OFF.

What's causing this? Is it the discreet 100Hz processing (that can't be turned off) or the extra (unpublicised) DNR that this set is adding without my knowledge on upscaled images, even still ones with no movement? Or is it simply "normal" for SD sources to look like this when they're upscaled to 1080p? Is there any way of reducing it without losing PQ?

Is it a fault with my set? Does anybody else have the problem?

Thanks!

[davidweller]

I've got the 37" version of this and don't have any problems.

What picture setting are you using?

If 'Dynamic', try changing to 'Normal' or 'Cinema'.

[Gort]

When I got my Sony LCD, the default picture was disappointing compared to my previous Panasonic CRT. However, after changing the Vivid setting to Standard, as well as adjusting other picture settings, I'm fairly pleased with the SD picture. So, go to your picture settings and have a game of trial and error, and see if that improves things.

[Crazytrekker]

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidweller

I've got the 37" version of this and don't have any problems.

What picture setting are you using?

If 'Dynamic', try changing to 'Normal' or 'Cinema'.

I tried "Normal" but the black levels tend to fluctuate on that mode (the black darkens when it's a completely black screen as opposed to, say, when there are white credits on black) so I'm using "Eco" where the picture is still quite bright but the blacks are consistent.

Just watched The Boys From Brazil on BD and was blown away. Switched back to Freeview and was appalled by the contrast in quality.

I need to watch more DVDs.

I watched an episode of Reginald Perrin on DVD before and the PQ was absolutely appalling. I'm dreading putting on a Doctor Who in case those also look like poo. Trial Of A Time Lord is out this week and I *was* looking forward to it...

[soulboy77]

Have you tried setting your SD sources to output at 576p to let the TV do the upscaling? I tend to find this produces the best picture in the majority of cases as the upscaler in the TV is more often than not better than the one in the source box (and that includes my Denon DVD player).