Samsung SP42Q2HLX - Bad Picture

[mister_to_you]

HI,

I have the mentioned TV, and can't get the settings right.

If I play a console the picture seems fine, and DVD seems ok as well. But when I put it through my satellite the picture is not sharp and has a ghost image. Football is terrible to watch. The pitch is hazy and the players all have a ghost image around them.

Any ideas?

[neomaine]

I'm willing to bet you're seeing exactly what you receiving. The 'ghosting' is probably compression artifacts from the MPEG stream the satelite is sending.

Remember, satelite was initially geared towards tv sets of 27" or less with an effective resolution of less than 352x480 (or 352x576(?) in your case). There's a bunch of other numbers in there as well, but that'll suffice for this discussion. We have both a 27" and 35" standard set with dish network. We can barely notice these artifacts on the 27" but are noticable, when close enough, on the 35".

What's happening, is that your TV set (assuming its 42") is simply taking the signal and expanding it best it can to fit your TV. Which means either your signal is low res, or if its a high def signal, they're simply resending a low def signal.

Your just noticing what has been there all along.

[mister_to_you]

thanks for the reply.