[jcatalfamo]

Are there any settings in the User menu or the service menu to reduce motion blur.


I went thru umr's SM changes and the picture looks somewhat better, but the motion blur seems a little worse!


Let me explain exactly what I'm seeing.

It is worse on SD. A good example is when im watching the news via directv SD. if the news caster has on a pin strip shirt, the lines get lost in a blur whenever he moves even the slightest amount, last night the one news caster had on a color striped necktie, and it was a big colored blur whenever he would move as he was speaking.


Do others notice this? is it normal? any SM tweaks to remove or lessen this effect.


btw... i even see it happening somewhat on DVD's whether its 480i or 480p seems to make no difference.

 

[umr]

Welcome to MPEG compression artifacts. I saw the same thing on Dish. Switched to TWC. Now I have more noise on analog channels and better PQ on digital channels than Dish. The SM tweaks make this worse because your set is displaying more of what is really coming into it. You could switch to an untweaked picture mode for DirectTV.

 

[jcatalfamo]

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Originally posted by umr Welcome to MPEG compression artifacts. I saw the same thing on Dish. Switched to TWC. Now I have more noise on analog channels and better PQ on digital channels than Dish. The SM tweaks make this worse because your set is displaying more of what is really coming into it. You could switch to an untweaked picture mode for DirectTV.

Well, I switched my sd directv receiver to composite instead of svid. and switched the mode back to standard.


It seems to have helped a little, but the odd thing is that the cinemotion setting seems to make it worse, is there a way to turn drc completely off, my 3 choices are high def, progressive and cinemotion, but no "off".


Umr, anyway to disable the drc in the SM for a certain input or mode?


Also, are you sure this is a result of mpeg compression, I notice the digital artifacts "blocks" on my 46" 4:3 rptv but this new sony lcd also seems to have a blurring whenever anything moves on the screen.

 

[umr]

Are you sure you followed the tweaks. You should not have been using S-Video if you did.


I know of no way to disable DRC entirely or to make it input dependent. I do switch picture modes on my TV with my remote dependent on inputs, but this is pretty tricky.


Your 46" TV may be obscuring some of what you are seeing. Many TV's have poorer resolution than a tweaked GW. It could also be something else. It is hard for me to tell over the forum.

 

[jcatalfamo]

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Originally posted by umr Are you sure you followed the tweaks. You should not have been using S-Video if you did. I know of no way to disable DRC entirely or to make it input dependent. I do switch picture modes on my TV with my remote dependent on inputs, but this is pretty tricky. Your 46" TV may be obscuring some of what you are seeing. Many TV's have poorer resolution than a tweaked GW. It could also be something else. It is hard for me to tell over the forum.

Yea, followed it to a T, switched from composite to Svid after I was done becuase I thought it looked a bit soft, but then switched back to composite.


I just watched some of another CD, hidalgo, I think i was imagining the effect on the dvd w/ progressive mode as I couldnt see it, but its defiantely there on SD.

I wish I could switch to cable, but my wife would never give up the dual tuner tivo


I found this excert of a review which sums up exactly my experience over the last 4 days....

Not sure about the HDTV as Im still trying to grab a cheap tuner off ebay...


"After initially installing the set, I was typically WOW'ed by the picture. Colors are great, the image is large, it has a decent side-angle viewing area, etc. But slowly problems emerged. If the images you're displaying are fairly static, this set excels at providing a stunning picture. Sadly, most images are not static. LCD uses liquid crystals to formulate the picture and currently, that process is a bit slow. The end result is that when objects on screen move, they blur. At first I didn't notice it in most images. But then it started showing up everywhere.


Tivo menus that pan from the side blur heavily but at least that's just a menu. XBox games, while they looked great during slow scenes, blur with motion. Hockey games are a complete mess. You actually get eye fatigue watching a full game. The advertising on the side boards all blurs, hard shots disappear in a blur, players blur. Plus the set has trouble displaying a very harsh nearly all-white surface. In fact, the blur was most evident in things like news shows. The anchor would look perfect sitting there, but just for a moment. He or she would move a bit and their face would blur, then clear, then blur, etc. It was extremely distracting. HDTV detail helped with this but did not eliminate it."