Hello all - Been cruising the forum for a month or two and finally bit the bullet and bought a refurbed Westinghouse SK-32H240S from Buy.com for $420. I know, know, but I'm poor.
Received my TV Tues. and excitedly began setting it up, only to hours later be whining here and looking for a little guidance.
I'm hooked up with Cablevision IO and got a SA HD4250 STB. Plugged in a HDMI cable end into each and to my horror saw such terrible images that I wanted to cry. I know that HDTV's have to be tweaked. But I assume, perhaps wrongly, that at least one or two of the presets should provide a semi decent image. Not on my box. I searched here and on a couple other HDTV forums and tried a bunch of settings recommended by owners of the same TV. Not much better, definitely not watchable, all posterized and blocky with almost every different station having a slightly different version of nasty. Everything SD is absolutely unwatchable. BTW - I'm no videophile so I'm not a hyper critical viewer, so when I say nasty I mean nasty.
I plugged in a non HD/non upconverting progressive scan DVD player via Comp cables and Standard DVD's are unwatchable. Also tried some of the downloaded and burnt to DVD Xvid movies that I watch mostly and that was even worse (this makes sense to me re: low resolutions, etc.)
Plugged the STB into the second HDMI port (using different cable) with same results. Also tried Comp cables to STB, no luck. The one quirky (and maybe hopeful thing is that I found a basball game that was almost watchable and I could imagine with tweaking that it would be OK. But nothing else was close (I didn't check all the HD stations of course).
Next step is to bring the STB back to cablevision and hope that it's the culprit. Probably isn't I'm guessing. The TV has your basic refurb 90 day warranty where I'm probably responsible for shipping it back for service. So all this blathering before the probably nightmarish service route leads me to the question of does anyone know how to tell for sure if the TV is bad?
I apologized for the length of this post but I really needed to ventilate.
Peace,
Littlalex
Received my TV Tues. and excitedly began setting it up, only to hours later be whining here and looking for a little guidance.
I'm hooked up with Cablevision IO and got a SA HD4250 STB. Plugged in a HDMI cable end into each and to my horror saw such terrible images that I wanted to cry. I know that HDTV's have to be tweaked. But I assume, perhaps wrongly, that at least one or two of the presets should provide a semi decent image. Not on my box. I searched here and on a couple other HDTV forums and tried a bunch of settings recommended by owners of the same TV. Not much better, definitely not watchable, all posterized and blocky with almost every different station having a slightly different version of nasty. Everything SD is absolutely unwatchable. BTW - I'm no videophile so I'm not a hyper critical viewer, so when I say nasty I mean nasty.
I plugged in a non HD/non upconverting progressive scan DVD player via Comp cables and Standard DVD's are unwatchable. Also tried some of the downloaded and burnt to DVD Xvid movies that I watch mostly and that was even worse (this makes sense to me re: low resolutions, etc.)
Plugged the STB into the second HDMI port (using different cable) with same results. Also tried Comp cables to STB, no luck. The one quirky (and maybe hopeful thing is that I found a basball game that was almost watchable and I could imagine with tweaking that it would be OK. But nothing else was close (I didn't check all the HD stations of course).
Next step is to bring the STB back to cablevision and hope that it's the culprit. Probably isn't I'm guessing. The TV has your basic refurb 90 day warranty where I'm probably responsible for shipping it back for service. So all this blathering before the probably nightmarish service route leads me to the question of does anyone know how to tell for sure if the TV is bad?
I apologized for the length of this post but I really needed to ventilate.
Peace,
Littlalex
