Official Westinghouse TX Series ( TX-42F430S, TX-47F430S ) Owner's Thread - Page 150

Originally Posted by eldritch2k4

I picked the TX-42 up on Tuesday, calibrated it and then updated the firmware. I thought I noticed some picture degradation. Then, I noticed that it had reset my calibration to factory. Once I reset everything to the settings I got after calibrating, the picture was back to looking good.

Originally Posted by ixpagan

Martin,
The issues experienced with my TX were constant lockups, the remote would not respond. Popping noise, not sure where that was coming from. Sometimes I would turn it on and all I would get is the "W" logo, nothing else. At the time Westinghouse was useless. They recommended that I cycle the power on the unit - disconnect the power cable every once in a while, Sometimes it worked sometimes it didnt. Right now I don't see anything in this price range that's worth picking up. Prices are going down - my recommendation would be is to be patient. When I picked up the TX47 I got it at a great price and was happy with the initial performance until the issues started. Eventually I ended up with a Samsung LNT 4665F as a replacement which I am very happy with and would recommend. In the end I ended up paying about $200.00 more for the Samsung and that's getting a super deal on Amazon over the Xmas holidays. I think it was worth the money. I checked today's prices on my set and prices are now in the 1600.00 to 1900.00 price range online, way over what I paid for it. If I were to do it over. I would have waited another year. I don't remember having to go through this much trouble when buying CRT TVs.

Originally Posted by XxProtocolxX

Beefy we have the same model and firmware, can you tell me if when at a brightness of 41 and above you see white horizontal lines in blacks while looking at the screen from a side view. It should be pretty noticeable when you have a completely black image up. I suggest a wide screen DVD, so you have the two black bars on top and bottom - It's easily visible there)

Thanks.

Originally Posted by nascar24

The popping audio on my TX-47 is my biggest annoyance with this TV out of the many others.

Originally Posted by wxman08844

What exactly do you mean by popping? Is the hardware itself making noise, or is the popping coming from the speakers?

Originally Posted by Martez

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I've finally noticed some banding- the only place I can see it is on the PS3's menu. The background color sort of fades in and out, and for about 3 seconds during that fade I can see banding. However, it goes away after that even though the colors in the background don't look that different. Strange, but glad this is the only time I've seen it.

Originally Posted by cbh0531

The TV isn't banding, the XMB background is designed to look that way. Each color does it.

Originally Posted by Martez

You know, I have noticed a popping sound now and then. I have no idea what it was, but I've got an electric heater and all kinds of junk in my room so I wasn't even sure it was the TV... any hypothesis about what it could be?

How long did your set last before these issues started to come up? I've had mine two weeks, I'm hoping stuff doesn't come up, but I've got a 4 year warranty from Best Buy so I guess it doesn't matter- if something goes wrong I'll get it fixed or replaced.

Also, you said you had the 47" right? I wonder if those lockup problems are restricted to it and the 42" performs better?

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I got my PS3 last night and hooked it up via HDMI. Everything works GREAT. One annoying-ish thing is that when the PS3 changes resolutions (1080p in the menu to 720p for a game) the little info box pops up for a few seconds. Unnecessary, I think, but whatever.

Was playing Orange Box and noticed it has a strange little border on the right and bottom edge- it looks like it occurs when the game puts some kind of filter over what's going on on-screen (zooming in with a scope, etc.) so I'm guessing that it's a 1:1 pixel mapping thing, since it didn't happen with a Blu-Ray movie. *shrug* Setting the picture to Fill obviously fixes this, but like everybody else I wish it would overscan less or let us set how much it zooms in. But after reading about so many people with PS3 problems, I'm extremely happy everything is working. Watching Spiderman 3 on Blu-Ray confirmed that the speedy-shot-pixelization is in fact the broadcasts coming from the TV, because all the fast motion and shots in the movie looked fine. I'm actually quite impressed with how well the set handles speedy stuff when coming from a decent source.

I've finally noticed some banding- the only place I can see it is on the PS3's menu. The background color sort of fades in and out, and for about 3 seconds during that fade I can see banding. However, it goes away after that even though the colors in the background don't look that different. Strange, but glad this is the only time I've seen it.




I took a look at my set with the brightness at 45 last night. Did not see any white lines in black.

Originally Posted by ixpagan

Martez,
I had the TX47 for two weeks before the issues started. I owned the unit for 28 days before I had enough and decided to return it. Use TVblink to check for banding and dead pixels http://www.tvblink.com/

Best of Luck

Originally Posted by ixpagan

We have been having problems with our elevators at work for years now. Every morning you can hear almost everyone waiting for the elevators complaining on how slow they are and how they are constantly breaking down. The other day I get into the elevator, I don't know how I've never seen this before....I've been there for 8 years....on the very top of the elevator inside there is a plate that states manufactured by Westinghouse. I just had to chuckle, the people in the elevator must of thought I was nuts. I just wanted to share that.

Peace

Originally Posted by wxman08844

What exactly do you mean by popping? Is the hardware itself making noise, or is the popping coming from the speakers?

Originally Posted by Saberj

I just purchased the TX-42F430S earlier this week. I have the 1.3 firmware with an Oct. 2007 build date. I haven't witnessed most of the problems listed here. However, I have ran across a different problem. I wanted to see if anyone else had seen anything on this issue:

Basically, whenever I hook something up through my HDMI ports, I can't get the sound to export via the optical audio cord to my receiver. If I switch to internal audio, everything is fine. If I got to component or composite inputs, it will output externally as well. But for some reason, it doesn't like to output with the HDMI inputs.

I have two HDMI cables plugged in. One is going to my Motorola cable box and the other to my Toshiba A2 HDDVD player. Neither one has sound unless I switch back to internal sound. Very bizarre. Has anyone else witnessed this problem?

Originally Posted by nascar24

I do believe you are experiencing the HDMI HDCP spec. I believe the early TX-47 build was the only one that allowed this until they fixed it with newer firmware. What you have happening is by design and you can thank all the movie and TV studios for all this.

Originally Posted by nascar24

Popping comes out of the speakers at random intervals but quite often at that, Much more noticable when you are using it as a PC monitor and not using the speakers from the TV. Seems to be something with the HDMI as I dont believe it happens on any of the other inputs. Was hoping but not holding my breath that firmware may fix my one major annoyance with this TV. I now just hit the mute button so I can not hear it while using as a PC monitor.

Originally Posted by kolyan2k

in PS3 i noticed at the bottom of the screen, sometimes a line is flickering.

Originally Posted by mander

I have a TX-47F430S. I registered on the westinghouse site and it says there is no firmware available. I purchsed in November of 07. It is currently on 5110_1.1.0. Built on April 13 2007. Is there no update for this TV?

Originally Posted by Martez

I saw this yesterday. I reset the PS3 and it was gone.

Originally Posted by kolyan2k

yeah. it went away in about 5-10 minutes. but this is a problem with Westy. I have not seen this before i exchanged the TV. I also dont know if its the built2 or the firmware upgrade to 1.3

Originally Posted by kolyan2k

ok. as i already said, I exchanged TX47 built1 to TX47 built2 firmware 1.3 because it didn't support 1080p/24hz. I noticed decreased picture quality...... today i can say 2 things for sure: 1. looking at TV from an angle changes the picture, and it becomes too bright and noisy 2. in PS3 i noticed at the bottom of the screen, sometimes a line is flickering.

i want to exchange it again

Originally Posted by XxProtocolxX

So you notice the noise at an angle too huh. It's in the blacks right?

It's the new firmware, I never had this with 1.2.0