Low Picture Quality For New Lcd Tv?
January 28, 2010 by Rich
Filed under Frequently Asked Questions
I just bought a new Samsung 32 inch LCD TV (LN-S3241D) to replace my 27 inch Sony Wega regular tube tv. I use Comcast cable service and Tivo in the San Franscisco Bay Area. I have a splitter that runs a cable from my wall directly into my cable box (and then into my Tivo, and then into the TV), and also a cable from the splitter directly into the TV (to be able to watch TV when Tivo is recording).
The problem is that my picture quality is highly degraded and very pixelated. I have played with the settings on the TV, but doesn’t make it much better. I have removed the splitter and plugged the cable from the wall to the TV, but that didn’t make the tv quality any better.
I heard about using cable booster, but I’m worried it won’t work (as there’s little difference between using and not using a splitter.
I also heard that a cable tv ground isolator may work, but it seems like overkill.
I also heard I just may need to switch to HD service from my cable provider.
Any ideas?
It’s is true LCD Tv’s will show every little flaw in the signal. I had a 60″ Hitachi UltraVision” I also had Comcast . If I was watching HD programs it was the most perfect picture you could imagine , but on regu;lar or even digital signals it was junk. Even some DVD’s were hard to watch. The only solution I could find that helped at all was make sure that EVERY cable is the highest quality you can get .If you have Componenet cables thats better than just regular Cable . If you can get HDMI (I think Comcast uses that ) Then thats about as good a pic as you will get . Avoid splitters and any other low grade cables or wires and use the best you can afford and the shortest you can. It helped me “some” but asw it was I paid almost 90 $ a month and I only really watched like 6 HD channels cuz after watching those the others are just not viewable.
You need to switch to Hd service reason being that tube tv take all that pixelation and transfer it to the outter most side of the tube. With an LCD you see all that with digital cable and with HD cable the picture is as clear as in the store you bought it from.