[harlenm]

Got my new TV a few days ago. Was watching Gladiator, and noticed that when there is a white color next to a black color, the white flickers to the point that it is extremely annoying. It's not my DVD, nor is it my player, because I took the DVD to my parents house to try it on their 50" Fujitsu plasma, and it didn't do it. Is this because the TV is an LCD projector? Is this normal, or did I get a defective TV? Should I return it for a different type of tv? DLP, CRT, etc.?


Anyone else experience anything like this?

 

[harlenm]

anyone?

 

[BryanSD]

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Originally posted by harlenm Got my new TV a few days ago. Was watching Gladiator, and noticed that when there is a white color next to a black color, the white flickers to the point that it is extremely annoying. It's not my DVD, nor is it my player, because I took the DVD to my parents house to try it on their 50" Fujitsu plasma, and it didn't do it. Is this because the TV is an LCD projector? Is this normal, or did I get a defective TV? Should I return it for a different type of tv? DLP, CRT, etc.? Anyone else experience anything like this?

I have the same TV and so far have not noticed a flicker. Is your DVD player progressive and do you have it set for interlace or progressive? How do you have your DVD player hooked up...component, composite, HDMI? Have you tried different picture settings (vivid, standard, and pro). Unless this is in the middle of the afternoon...I would not use vivid. I would also try playing with some of the Advanced options in the menu. If you're still having problems with even the factory settings for "pro"...I'd consider taking it back. Or possibly take your DVD and DVD player to where you purchased it and ask if they'll hook it up to their floor model and see if the same problem occurs on their set.


-Bryan

 

[harlenm]

It's a Sony DVD player, and it is Progressive Scan, and it is turned on. Hook up to the TV is through both component and composite, so I can compare the two. It does it on both connections. Also hooked up my second DVD player which is not progressive scan, and it also did it. I think there is something wrong with the TV, and will probably return it this weekend for a new one, unless they can deliver a new one to me at no charge.

 

[TH3_FRB]

The GWIV tyypically has better DVD PQ if you use interlaced rather then progressive mode.

 

[Slordak]

This may simply be an aliasing artifact or a compression artifact in the source material. Anytime you have a repeated pattern with high contrast (e.g. herringbone) and you apply compression, these types of artifacts can show up, since they tend to be the first thing impacted during compression.


With that being said, these are probably more visible on some TVs than on others. However, I'm not sure I would expect to see a flicker on an LCD, since LCDs at 60hz don't really flicker. Is it really a flicker, or is it more like color shifting and banding?

 

[harlenm]

It's not a flicker. It's as if when the image moves, there is a ghosting effect, and then what was bright becomes dark, and then becomes bright again. it's really hard to explain.


I'm going to return this TV and try another one, see if that does it too. I do like the picture quality on the Samsung DLP's better, but those are out of my price range.