At last, somebody else who is seeing what I am seeing.
I put the following on
www.tv-forums.com the other dayto see if anyone else had similar problems:
"Picture is not bad in some respects, although with some images, there's a sort of slightly misty effect (don't know what the technical term is, as you've gathered I don't know all the techy buzzwords, some people use on these forums). Skin tones sometimes look good but other times a bit 'painting by numberish'. The latter problem is particularly prevelent with images that are out of focus in the scene you're watching.
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I also put the following comment on about problems with the display format:
"Still can't get it to work the way I think 'Auto' mode should work. So before I make a prat of myself ringing the Goodmans helpline, can anybody else help? My belief for an 'Auto' feature, is that if a program is being transmitted in 4:3, it should fit the screen vertically and leave bands at the side of the screen, so you don't lose any of the picture. What actually happens is that the picture is enlarged to fit the screen horizontally, with the subsequent loss of picture at the top and bottom. That is the wrong way to do it.
If a user is happy to lose the top and bottom in 4:3 mode, then they can use the 'User Zoom' option to fill the screen width ways
I really don't want to have to manually flick between the aspect ratios, in order that I can see a full 4:3 picture. This would seem a really obvious thing that they've got wrong.
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If I could get round these 2 problems, then for what I want out of a TV, it's a bargain at 999 delivered, but I need to make a decision fairly quick on whether I can sort out the picture problem in particular while I'm still in the Argos 16-day return period