LCD TV Backlight

Hi

I have a new TV. It's a Sony Bravia 40" W2000. About 2 weeks old.

For me, CRT is much better than LCD, but I wanted a big TV that wasn't
deep, so went with LCD.

I am surpised at how good the picture is when it is showing an image,
but when the screen goes blank, the backlight non-uniformity is very
obvious and annoying. I have varied the backlight intensity,
brightness, contrast etc., but it doesn't help.

Is it normal for the backlight variation to be so obvious as to be
apparent even when the screen only goes blank for a short time (e.g.
between adverts, scenes in films)?

If someone tells me there's in a nice deep flat black I'll think about
sending mine back - a bit of a pain as it's an internet buy.

I find it especially annoying as there's no symetry to where it appears
bright - there's a wide band near the right hand side, but not the
left, and an annoying splash that comes in from the top about 25% of
the way from left to right.

cheers for any help!
Darren

"daz" wrote in message
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Hi

I have a new TV. It's a Sony Bravia 40" W2000. About 2 weeks old.

For me, CRT is much better than LCD, but I wanted a big TV that wasn't
deep, so went with LCD.

I am surpised at how good the picture is when it is showing an image,
but when the screen goes blank, the backlight non-uniformity is very
obvious and annoying. I have varied the backlight intensity,
brightness, contrast etc., but it doesn't help.

I briefly had a Tosh 32WLT66 LCD and it didn't have any issues with back
light uniformity when viewed head on. As I moved off axis the uniformity
did change but from my normal viewing position it was fine.


Is it normal for the backlight variation to be so obvious as to be
apparent even when the screen only goes blank for a short time (e.g.
between adverts, scenes in films)?

If someone tells me there's in a nice deep flat black I'll think about
sending mine back - a bit of a pain as it's an internet buy.

I find it especially annoying as there's no symetry to where it appears
bright - there's a wide band near the right hand side, but not the
left, and an annoying splash that comes in from the top about 25% of
the way from left to right.

cheers for any help!
Darren

On 16 Nov 2006 15:27:36 -0800, "daz" wrote:

...
cheers for any help!

If it's like that when viewing head on, it's faulty.

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"daz" wrote in message
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Hi

I have a new TV. It's a Sony Bravia 40" W2000. About 2 weeks old.

For me, CRT is much better than LCD, but I wanted a big TV that wasn't
deep, so went with LCD.

I am surpised at how good the picture is when it is showing an image,
but when the screen goes blank, the backlight non-uniformity is very
obvious and annoying. I have varied the backlight intensity,
brightness, contrast etc., but it doesn't help.

Is it normal for the backlight variation to be so obvious as to be
apparent even when the screen only goes blank for a short time (e.g.
between adverts, scenes in films)?

If someone tells me there's in a nice deep flat black I'll think about
sending mine back - a bit of a pain as it's an internet buy.

I find it especially annoying as there's no symetry to where it appears
bright - there's a wide band near the right hand side, but not the
left, and an annoying splash that comes in from the top about 25% of
the way from left to right.

cheers for any help!
Darren

Is that using the internal tuner or external sources.

I found connecting my DVD via analog, be it RGB, Component or S-Video,
resulted in shimmer when low level images where displayed. This vanished
when I used HDMI. This could be that electrical "black" actually means "low
level noise" coming from any analog connected sources. It would appear that
LCD's are very much "rubbish in, rubbish out" devices.

Switch it to a SCART input, with no SCART lead attached. That way you know
there is nothing spurious coming into the telly.

If you still have that uneven backlight glow, it's faulty.

Thack

Originally Posted by daz

Hi

I have a new TV. It's a Sony Bravia 40" W2000. About 2 weeks old.

For me, CRT is much better than LCD, but I wanted a big TV that wasn't
deep, so went with LCD.

I am surpised at how good the picture is when it is showing an image,
but when the screen goes blank, the backlight non-uniformity is very
obvious and annoying. I have varied the backlight intensity,
brightness, contrast etc., but it doesn't help.

Is it normal for the backlight variation to be so obvious as to be
apparent even when the screen only goes blank for a short time (e.g.
between adverts, scenes in films)?

If someone tells me there's in a nice deep flat black I'll think about
sending mine back - a bit of a pain as it's an internet buy.

I find it especially annoying as there's no symetry to where it appears
bright - there's a wide band near the right hand side, but not the
left, and an annoying splash that comes in from the top about 25% of
the way from left to right.

cheers for any help!
Darren

Hi Darren. I too will be taking possesion of the W2000 within a week or so. I'll check out
the background and get back to you with any info.

Maybe here's something you could help me with. I'm pretty new to this game, so bear with me. I was wondering how to connect up my current set up (Sony amp/rec. Sony HDD dvd recorder)
with the new tv.
Is there a digital RF into the tv,and does this then go to the dvd?
Do I use comp. connectors?
Does my audio co-ax link the dvd and amp?
And is it poss to watch/record terestrial whilst recording throuh Freeview?

I dont know if you can help at all but any info would be appreciated. Apologies for my naivety. Chris.