poor picture quality on sky with 36zp18

philinman · 09-05-2003, 8:04 PM

Hi i have a picture frame tosh and when i whatch sky i get colour run and blockyness on certain colours i seem to get this on all channels but worse on bbc1 itv ect ,i have not noticed this on dvd but will check futher .
i never had this with my philips 32 ,i am using a sony digi box latest firmware and signal and quality strength are good any ideas

ryanos · 10-05-2003, 2:20 AM

Are you using scart leads if so are they of decent quality? I had somePhilips gold £20 leads that I inititially used on my sky/tv/dvd and had similar problems ............I pushed the boat out and bought monster video scarts @ 40 quid a throw...... best £80 i ever spent it really can make a big difference if you have poor connections

10-05-2003, 5:04 AM

Use the component video for the DVD (the best option), failing that S-Video is the next best, and plug the scart into EXT1 for sky, then set the sky box to send RGB (or auto on some models), if it has this facility in the setup menu, I believe most of them do. My mate's 36ZP looked awful when he was using the normal AV setting on EXT2/3. He did the above and is now very happy.

And of course, spend money on decent leads, Monster is very good. I got an IXOS scart lead with my dvd and it's really good, the colours are superb. The standard leads supplied are the electrical equivalent of string!

philinman · 14-05-2003, 7:03 PM

Hi yes i am using monster scart cabels and using the rgb output from thi digi box

bazzae123 · 14-05-2003, 8:13 PM

Have you got "Scart control" set to "ON" on your digibox. For some reason it makes a hell of a differance on my Tosh.

Bazza

philinman · 14-05-2003, 11:43 PM

Yes mate its on using my dvd player seems ok i will have to try the sky in to the telly and not through the dvd player maybe !!!

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Knickerzohnonov Guest Posts: n/a	Use the component video for the DVD (the best option), failing that S-Video is the next best, and plug the scart into EXT1 for sky, then set the sky box to send RGB (or auto on some models), if it has this facility in the setup menu, I believe most of them do. My mate's 36ZP looked awful when he was using the normal AV setting on EXT2/3. He did the above and is now very happy. And of course, spend money on decent leads, Monster is very good. I got an IXOS scart lead with my dvd and it's really good, the colours are superb. The standard leads supplied are the electrical equivalent of string!
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