POOR PICTURE QUALITY WITH NON HD PROGRAMS ON MY 46″ LCD SAMSUNG HDTV?
TV; Samsung 46″ LCD HDtv. 18 months old
Signal; ALL digital cable via a PVR;
Problem:- picture quality with an HD signal is great! as are some of the non HD programs BUT; Some of the non HD programs, particularly the low-light ones and in the darker areas show a “smeared” effect during movement compared to the brighter areas of the picture. eg ; a full ****** shot of a person talking will display with a sharp-ish (lighter) face but with the darker hair smeared so that no hair strands are visible as the head moves around…..like a photo taken with a too slow shutter speed. On a soccer field, a close up of a player with the grass in the background is fine until the player moves and the camera follows him, then the grass is blurred (smeared) out into a mono-tone green. All these “smeared” effect areas will sharpen up as the image becomes stationary. It would appear that the darker areas are slower to regenerate than the lighter areas.
There are lots of forums out there addressing this LCDTV poor picture quality but I haven’t found an answer that deals with my concerns. – - Can any one shed any light on this one? Also would Plasma have the same problem?
This is one of many reasons why CRT is my favorite type of television. Fixed-pixel television technologies (including LCD, plasma, and DLP) must scale to their native resolution, so sources not at that resolution will not look as good. LCD’s are particularly bad at displaying content not at their native resolution; plasmas aren’t quite as bad. The only cure to this problem is to watch EVERYTHING in HD (good luck with that, that means saying goodbye to any VHS/DVD you may have) or to get a CRT (good luck finding a new one). Until about a year or two ago, they mass-produced CRT HDTV’s, which could perfectly display content at 480i, 480p, and 1080i with no problem, and 720p and 1080p scaled down didn’t look as bad.