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Thread ID: 86241	2008-01-09 10:48:00	LCD/Plasma owners	plod (107)	PC World Chat

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628862	2008-02-05 23:54:00	Trev, are you watching in wide screen yet?	wotz (335)
628863	2008-02-29 08:36:00	I just bought the TH 37PV70AZ 37" Panasonic Viera, it has 720p HD, not he full 1080p HD. I have been wondering if I should of perhaps gone the whole hog and got the 42 with full HD, however I put the sometimes grainy signal down to 1) poor signal from Sky , which will be upgraded this year (Apr/May) & 2) I have yet to sort out the cabling. At present i am just using coxial cable and the signal I think it only has 150 lines, however i have been told that component cable will increase that by 4. I did get to see a HD signal on the 37 when in the shop just to confirm it looks anygood, and to be honest, you couldnt see the difference between 720p and 1080p from 2m away. We have only to wait for Sky, then we will see some great improvements. After all said and done, the new plasma screen looks 10 x better than the 21 CRT we were viewing on, some sky signals are better than others, some oversea compressed rugby looks ****e, but guess thats because the screen is better along with the pixels. I have game cables, DVD component, coxial Sky, RCA digi-cam & vga PC cable for the laptop all hooked up, 1024 x 724 is no greater resolution than my laptop, however, with the long vga cable, surfing the net is pretty awesome on it......LOL Hi. I've just picked up on this thread. I also have a Panasonic TH 37PV70AZ. I am finding it gives very bad pictures on Sky. We previously had a 29" CRT which I am convinced provided a better picture. I changed partly due to the limited inputs on the CRT and partly due to it not handling 16:9 conversion properly (even though it claimed to) so everything had to be watched in 4:3. I also bought a DVD recorder at the same time. (Panasonic DMR EH57) I accept that a 37" widescreen will show up some imperfections more than 29" CRT, I still think I must have something wrong either in the cable connects or the set-up. I have a scart-composite connection from SKY decoder to TV. I use the second scart connection from the decoder for the DVD recorder. This runs scart-scart. There is an HDMI connection from the DVD recorder to the TV. Should I perhaps get rid of the connection from the decoder to the TV and just use the one run through the DVD recorder? The advanced menu on the SKY decoder gives the options for the TV Scart as RGB, S-video and composite. However, it only allows S-video or composite (if I choose RGB, it just highlights composite instead). The video scart options are only composite or s-video. This is set at composite at the moment. I think the decoder is pretty old. The model is Pace DSR600 I've just thought: my connections previously were composite out of SKY into VCR and composite out of VCR into CRT. Hopefully someone can help me out with the connections here, but otherwise I might see if can just run composite from SKY decoder to DVD recorder to TV and see how the picture looks. Anyway, any help that anyone can give would be very welcome. I've just watched a Chiefs v Hurricanes game and was so annoyed by the picture that the rugby largely passed me by.	Barnsley (11708)
628864	2008-02-29 08:45:00	Trev, are you watching in wide screen yet? Yes. Not all channels are transmitted in wide screen. TV1, 2 and 3 are in widescreen via sky satellite but not via the ariel. Sky movies are in wide screen. Channels like Discovery, National Geographic, History, Sport are not. :)	Trev (427)
628865	2008-02-29 08:57:00	Anyway, any help that anyone can give would be very welcome. I've just watched a Chiefs v Hurricanes game and was so annoyed by the picture that the rugby largely passed me by. You also have to remember that Sky compresses the signal of the sky sports channel quite alot. A find the picture on a LCD a lot worse than that of a Plasma while watching sky sport. Also avoid composite if you can.	wmoore (6009)
628866	2008-02-29 10:05:00	I'm very tempted by the Samsung la40s81bx 40inch LCD from Bond and Bond for $1999 ($500 off) (link (www.bondandbond.co.nz)). Anyone want to convince me this is a good or a bad idea? Reviews online seem generally positive.	Vulpes (13267)
628867	2008-02-29 19:57:00	I bought this from Noel Lemmings a month ago and we are very pleased with it. www.noelleeming.co.nz :)	Trev (427)
628868	2008-02-29 21:23:00	You also have to remember that Sky compresses the signal of the sky sports channel quite alot . A find the picture on a LCD a lot worse than that of a Plasma while watching sky sport . Also avoid composite if you can . Thanks . I just find it a bit hard to understand why it seems so much worse on 37" plasma v 29" CRT - the screen size alone doesn't seem to justify it . At the moment the only options I have are component or (perhaps) scart to s-video . Unless the difference is likely to be significant using s-video I'm not that keen to spend money on a scart to s-video lead when I already have scart to component and normal component leads - I would prefer to pay (yes you have to pay!) SKY to provide a newer decoder that has component outputs . Actually, the other option I have is RF . I have just tried comparing a RF connection to the TV with the composite connection . There appears to be no (or VERY slight) difference . Surely composite shouldn't be that bad . I am getting ghosting on the sky messages themselves (the ones that come up if you change channels) - I don't remember this on the CRT . Much as I would like to blame them, it can't all be Sky's fault . I must be doing something wrong . Any more ideas?	Barnsley (11708)
628869	2008-02-29 21:35:00	Thanks. I just find it a bit hard to understand why it seems so much worse on 37" plasma v 29" CRT - the screen size alone doesn't seem to justify it. At the moment the only options I have are component or (perhaps) scart to s-video. Unless the difference is likely to be significant using s-video I'm not that keen to spend money on a scart to s-video lead when I already have scart to component and normal component leads - I would prefer to pay (yes you have to pay!) SKY to provide a newer decoder that has component outputs. Actually, the other option I have is RF. I have just tried comparing a RF connection to the TV with the composite connection. There appears to be no (or VERY slight) difference. Surely composite shouldn't be that bad. I am getting ghosting on the sky messages themselves (the ones that come up if you change channels) - I don't remember this on the CRT. Much as I would like to blame them, it can't all be Sky's fault. I must be doing something wrong. Any more ideas? You try better cables.	wmoore (6009)
628870	2008-02-29 22:07:00	Hi. I've just picked up on this thread. I also have a Panasonic TH 37PV70AZ. I am finding it gives very bad pictures on Sky. We previously had a 29" CRT which I am convinced provided a better picture. I changed partly due to the limited inputs on the CRT and partly due to it not handling 16:9 conversion properly (even though it claimed to) so everything had to be watched in 4:3. I also bought a DVD recorder at the same time. (Panasonic DMR EH57) I accept that a 37" widescreen will show up some imperfections more than 29" CRT, I still think I must have something wrong either in the cable connects or the set-up. I have a scart-composite connection from SKY decoder to TV. I use the second scart connection from the decoder for the DVD recorder. This runs scart-scart. There is an HDMI connection from the DVD recorder to the TV. Should I perhaps get rid of the connection from the decoder to the TV and just use the one run through the DVD recorder? The advanced menu on the SKY decoder gives the options for the TV Scart as RGB, S-video and composite. However, it only allows S-video or composite (if I choose RGB, it just highlights composite instead). The video scart options are only composite or s-video. This is set at composite at the moment. I think the decoder is pretty old. The model is Pace DSR600 I've just thought: my connections previously were composite out of SKY into VCR and composite out of VCR into CRT. Hopefully someone can help me out with the connections here, but otherwise I might see if can just run composite from SKY decoder to DVD recorder to TV and see how the picture looks. Anyway, any help that anyone can give would be very welcome. I've just watched a Chiefs v Hurricanes game and was so annoyed by the picture that the rugby largely passed me by. Are you on Sky UHF or Digital. I got hooked up to Sky Digital the same time I got my new TV (see other posts) and I would say it is as perfect a picture as you could ever get. :)	Trev (427)
628871	2008-02-29 22:16:00	You try better cables. I am using -for want of a better phrase - bog standard cheapo RF and composite cables. Any suggestions of changes without having to take out a second (no, third) mortgage.	Barnsley (11708)
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