Bert Coules
Well-known Member
I have a small unbranded LCD HD TV which I use for occasional casual viewing when I don't want to fire up my projector. It's fed from the HDMI output of my AV amp, through an active splitter which also feeds the pj.
Today I tried watching a signal routed directly from a DVD player into the set's composite video/audio inputs. I've done this before and the quality has been fine - nowhere near HDMI standard obviously, but perfectly watchable. But today the picture was appalling: hugely over-bright and washed out. I tried changing the set's picture controls but couldn't get anything like a decent result. A bit of experimenting showed that the SCART input gave the same fault and so did the TV's own built-in Freeview tuner (which in the past has also been fine).
Is there a known type of problem which can cause every input except the HDMI one to give such dreadful results? Any thoughts will be very welcome.
Bert
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Today I tried watching a signal routed directly from a DVD player into the set's composite video/audio inputs. I've done this before and the quality has been fine - nowhere near HDMI standard obviously, but perfectly watchable. But today the picture was appalling: hugely over-bright and washed out. I tried changing the set's picture controls but couldn't get anything like a decent result. A bit of experimenting showed that the SCART input gave the same fault and so did the TV's own built-in Freeview tuner (which in the past has also been fine).
Is there a known type of problem which can cause every input except the HDMI one to give such dreadful results? Any thoughts will be very welcome.
Bert
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