On a similar vein to a recent poster, I have just bought a 42" Plasma, the LG 42PJ550 and have been a bit disappointed with the picture quality. On some of the HD channels it is pretty good but normal SD channels eg BBC1 and ITV (101 and 103 on sky) are pretty poor to say the least - just a bit of a fuzzy picture when close up and lots of patchy bits - hard to describe but defo not brilliant. I don't know what is wrong though - if I look at my signal settings on my sky box (a new Samsung HD) - it showed strength 100% on both with quality at around 80% on both. I started to wonder if the dish maybe needed re-aligning as we had to move it a couple of years ago when we had building work going on, and when it was put back it seemed ok at the time (and certainly never gave a problem on our old 32" CRT). Anyway I have been keeping an eye on the strength and quality levels throughout this evening and after the initial levels reported above I noticed that Input 1 is now pretty much constant on 100% on both strength and quality whilst input 2 quality has dropped a bit, maybe 60-70% but strength still 100%.
I'm now not sure if its a dish problem if input 1 is showing as 100% for both, isn't input 1 normally for viewing with input 2 as recording? So how come I have 100% strength and 100% quality but the picture is still pretty poor??
Interestingly I then swapped the input cables - after firstly unscrewing input 2 I still had a picture so this proves input 1 is viewing. However when I swapped the cables input 1 was still showing 100% for both with input 2 showing 100% strength and about 80% quality!!
I also switched the TV into 'antenna' mode to run from the main aerial on freeview and the picture quality on here was much better than via the sky box.
Any advice on why the picture is so poor would be greatfully received, I just don't know what to think if the strength and quality are both 100% but the picture is poor - thanks in advance.
I'm now not sure if its a dish problem if input 1 is showing as 100% for both, isn't input 1 normally for viewing with input 2 as recording? So how come I have 100% strength and 100% quality but the picture is still pretty poor??
Interestingly I then swapped the input cables - after firstly unscrewing input 2 I still had a picture so this proves input 1 is viewing. However when I swapped the cables input 1 was still showing 100% for both with input 2 showing 100% strength and about 80% quality!!
I also switched the TV into 'antenna' mode to run from the main aerial on freeview and the picture quality on here was much better than via the sky box.
Any advice on why the picture is so poor would be greatfully received, I just don't know what to think if the strength and quality are both 100% but the picture is poor - thanks in advance.