plasma

just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel. Picture is fuzzy, blurry patches, distance
seems out of focus, almost like watching the screen through slightly frosted
glass at times - a bit like the quality of streaming video on the pc. signal
quality seems okay. not tried analogue as I dont have an aerial set up.

is this picture quality normal for a 42" plasma hdtv when not run with an
hdtv source?

Answer is no you should get a great picture, are you sure it's set up
correctly....


"dakeb" wrote in message
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just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel. Picture is fuzzy, blurry patches,
distance seems out of focus, almost like watching the screen through
slightly frosted glass at times - a bit like the quality of streaming
video on the pc. signal quality seems okay. not tried analogue as I dont
have an aerial set up.

is this picture quality normal for a 42" plasma hdtv when not run with an
hdtv source?

yeah its set up right. apparently the itv bitrates over sky are very low.
bbc and sky are low too but not as bad as itv. think i'll buy a quality
scart to try to improve the picture.

"Paul Brenchley" wrote in message
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Answer is no you should get a great picture, are you sure it's set up
correctly....


"dakeb" wrote in message
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just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel. Picture is fuzzy, blurry patches,
distance seems out of focus, almost like watching the screen through
slightly frosted glass at times - a bit like the quality of streaming
video on the pc. signal quality seems okay. not tried analogue as I dont
have an aerial set up.

is this picture quality normal for a 42" plasma hdtv when not run with an
hdtv source?

dakeb wrote:

think i'll buy a quality
scart to try to improve the picture.

The scart lead provided with the Sky box is of perfectly good quality.
To spend more is pointless.

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dakeb wrote:

just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel.

This is pretty much par for the course.

Football is a bad source to start with: lots of fast movement, fine
image contours and uniform colours.

Any SD sat source is going to look rather poor on a 42in screen at the
best of times.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/8vef5
UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
BBC reception questions? ; http://www.astra2d.com/
Fed up with on-screen logos? : http://logofreetv.org/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

"dakeb" wrote in message
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yeah its set up right. apparently the itv bitrates over sky are very low.
bbc and sky are low too but not as bad as itv. think i'll buy a quality
scart to try to improve the picture.


will that improve the bitrate then?

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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:10:07 +0200, Jomtien wrote:

dakeb wrote:

just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel.

This is pretty much par for the course.

Football is a bad source to start with: lots of fast movement, fine
image contours and uniform colours.

Any SD sat source is going to look rather poor on a 42in screen at the
best of times.

I have been very pleased with how good the quality of the best SDTV is on my new
46" Samsung LCD HDTV. The BBC channels are especially good. I am receiving the
satellite signal on a DVB-S card in a PC connecting to the screen via VGA.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:10:07 +0200, Jomtien wrote:

dakeb wrote:

just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel.

This is pretty much par for the course.

Football is a bad source to start with: lots of fast movement, fine
image contours and uniform colours.

Any SD sat source is going to look rather poor on a 42in screen at the
best of times.

I have been very pleased with how good the quality of the best SDTV is on
my new
46" Samsung LCD HDTV. The BBC channels are especially good. I am receiving
the
satellite signal on a DVB-S card in a PC connecting to the screen via VGA.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

Also make sure your picture settings in sky are set at RGB not pal that
should improve the picture through a scart.

dave

dakeb wrote:
just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky
box via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality,
especially football matches on any channel. Picture is fuzzy, blurry
patches, distance seems out of focus, almost like watching the screen
through slightly frosted glass at times - a bit like the quality of
streaming video on the pc. signal quality seems okay. not tried
analogue as I dont have an aerial set up.

is this picture quality normal for a 42" plasma hdtv when not run with an
hdtv source?

I have a non-HD widescreen CRT and football on ITV has been of noticably
****e quality on Sky Digital. I don't think this will come as news to
most readers here.

I counter the effects by drinking plenty of beer which is much more
effective than forking out for expensive SCART leads.

--
Stephen Chadfield
http://www.chadfield.com/

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:47:01 GMT, "Dragon"
wrote:


"Nigel Barker" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:10:07 +0200, Jomtien wrote:

dakeb wrote:

just got a samsung 42" plasma hdtv. Am running it with a standard sky box
via scart. Am very disappointed with the picture quality, especially
football matches on any channel.

This is pretty much par for the course.

Football is a bad source to start with: lots of fast movement, fine
image contours and uniform colours.

Any SD sat source is going to look rather poor on a 42in screen at the
best of times.

I have been very pleased with how good the quality of the best SDTV is on
my new
46" Samsung LCD HDTV. The BBC channels are especially good. I am receiving
the
satellite signal on a DVB-S card in a PC connecting to the screen via VGA.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

Also make sure your picture settings in sky are set at RGB not pal that
should improve the picture through a scart.

dave


Also make sure that you are connecting to the TV SCART that accepts RGB. On many
TVs there is only one such socket.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur