The sound works fine but the picture doesn’t appear, instead a red glow appears (as if from behind the screen) in different places, then disappears again.
After about 5 minutes the picture appears fine.
Why is this?

I’m getting ready to buy a high quality flat TV. When watching BluRay, for instance, which set delivers the sharpest picture, LCD or Plasma? I’m thinking of Sony, Panasonic, or other name brands.

I bought a LCD TV that can go up to 1080. I have an older DirecTV box and have contacted it using a S-Video cable. The TV shows 480. Is that a function of the receiver? I have a SD-HBH receiver.

I have a Vistron VIS026P 26″ Widescreen LCD TV that I have plugged my Media Centre PC into via it’s VGA socket. This is not an HD television, but it is reported to go up to resolutions of 1360×768.

I am able to reach that resolution at 60hz (with the TV set to 16:9 ratio), but I am getting some picture distortion that results in text looking occasionally blurred and broken up horizontally. At 1280×768 the image is similar to the above, and also at 1280×720 (which bizarrely is what the TV manual says it can reach)

However, at 1024×768 (with the TV set to 4:3 ratio) the image is perfect with clean and crisp text.

Does anybody have any idea what settings I need to change to get the image/text quality as good at the highest resolution? My old 19″ LCD monitor had an ‘Auto’ button that sets the screen to the the correct timing and horizontal/vertical size, but this TV does not.

My PC has an nVidia 7600GT graphics card and I am using the latest official Forceware drivers (93.71).
Actually, at 1280×720 I do not get the same blurring/broken up text as at the other higher resolutions – the screen just looks slightly fuzzy, like when ,for example, you change an LCD monitor with native resolution of 1280×1024 down to 1024×768 resolution.

I think my problem is the horizontal timings but I’m not sure how to proceed. All advice appreciated. Ta!

I bot mine in the other day and I’m not sure if the picture is good enuff to keep it. Kinda has this look like when you use a program to make a photo like a painting. I’ve never had an lcd tv so I’m not sure if thats normal. Picture is not even close to my Sony sxrd but its alot cheaper so maybe thats what you get for that price.

When we are watching TV if the scene is dark enough, the picture darkens. For instance, if it is mostly black with just one line of white text, the white looks darker than it should. But in brighter scenes, everything is fine. It seems like like the backlight is dimming. I hope I have been clear enough. What’s going on?

he has an HD cable box. I just went and bought an LCD HD TV today and am going to exchange my current cable box for an HD box later on in the week. Im wondering what would be the difference If I just did that or bought an HDMI cable and hooked that up? Or do I not need an HDMI cable?

I am using a sky+ box and the picture is not sharp on moving pictures

I recently bought a 7pin to 4pin/Yellow RCA S-Video Cable. I’m getting Audio with my red and white RCA’s but I’m not getting picture with the S-Video Cable? Why?

When I see pictures taken on Canon Digital Rebel XT (EOS 350D), the pictures are less bright than what is displayed on the LCD screen of the camera? Why is this. I want to be able to check the pictures and either reshoot or move on. This is a bit misleading. Any suggestions?

Thanks.