David Mackenzie
Ex Member
First of all, if you don't know what this is, don't panic and don't let it put you off buying this TV. This is one of the only slight down sides I can think of about the new Sony V-Series (and probably also the S-Series) screens. See this post on the next page for pictures of the problem.
The problem simply is that standard def video, even when the Sharpness is set to 0, will have a very slight "halo" effect to the left and right of high contrast areas. Say for example, you had a yellow menu screen with black text on it. The black text would have a very slight glow on its left and right sides.
Why should you care? If you don't then don't worry about it, just get back to enjoying the TV.
For everyone else, any sort of haloing removes detail from the picture by obscuring it with the said halos. Also for overcompressed, blocky digital TV broadcasts, it can actually draw more attention to blocking.
The affected modes are 480i, 480p (NTSC interlaced and progressive) and 576i and 576p (PAL interlaced and progressive).
Here's Sony's response. I think it's very encouraging and I think people should e-mail Sony at:
[email protected]
quote Sony reference code so they instantly know what you're talking about:
MacKenzie/167817844
...telling them how much you love these screens and how much you'd appreciate the fix to make them that little bit better.
(I think by the Menu Screens they mean the menu screens of whatever device they have connected. There's never any edge enhancement or other nasties on the TV's own menu screens because these seem to be the last "step" before any pictures appear on the screen.)
Before the new V-Series launched I'd hear some reports from people who had the old ones who experienced this problem (only the old models *apparently* had HD modes affected as well - these ones don't). Please let's only post about this error on the new V-Series screens please, instead of cluttering the thread.
Sony didn't seem too convinced at first but it's good that now they're aware of it so at the very least it shouldn't make its way onto later Sony TVs.
The problem simply is that standard def video, even when the Sharpness is set to 0, will have a very slight "halo" effect to the left and right of high contrast areas. Say for example, you had a yellow menu screen with black text on it. The black text would have a very slight glow on its left and right sides.
Why should you care? If you don't then don't worry about it, just get back to enjoying the TV.
For everyone else, any sort of haloing removes detail from the picture by obscuring it with the said halos. Also for overcompressed, blocky digital TV broadcasts, it can actually draw more attention to blocking.
The affected modes are 480i, 480p (NTSC interlaced and progressive) and 576i and 576p (PAL interlaced and progressive).
Here's Sony's response. I think it's very encouraging and I think people should e-mail Sony at:
[email protected]
quote Sony reference code so they instantly know what you're talking about:
MacKenzie/167817844
...telling them how much you love these screens and how much you'd appreciate the fix to make them that little bit better.
(I think by the Menu Screens they mean the menu screens of whatever device they have connected. There's never any edge enhancement or other nasties on the TV's own menu screens because these seem to be the last "step" before any pictures appear on the screen.)
Before the new V-Series launched I'd hear some reports from people who had the old ones who experienced this problem (only the old models *apparently* had HD modes affected as well - these ones don't). Please let's only post about this error on the new V-Series screens please, instead of cluttering the thread.
Sony didn't seem too convinced at first but it's good that now they're aware of it so at the very least it shouldn't make its way onto later Sony TVs.