V+ Watching sports...

Sinth · 16-03-2011, 21:12

I have an ongoing issue with watching lets say football. I am now coming around to the fact it is a transmission issue.

I used to have a Samsung 26" "HD ready" tv (before you say it, huh? but I live in a circa 1430 cottage and space is an issue) and used to watch Sky sports and although the picture wasn`t great all the time, I never had the issue I about to explain.

After some measuring and aesthetic thinking, we now have a 32" Panasonic Viera, lovely bit of kit with fantastic sound (obviously not a home theatre setup).

Ok let me ramble on. When we decided to get a new Tv, I picked up a 32" backlit LG. Put it in place, lovely, put some footy on.... really visible vertical translucent lines, about 4 of them running down the screen. I thought hang on this tv is faulty. Took it back and exchanged for another. Same thing.
Took it back again and luckily after my photos of examples had it exchanged for the Panasonic.
Now I still get faint translucent bands, not to the same degree, maybe because it isn`t backlit.

If you are still reading uptil now...
Is this normal for football or any panning sport with green? In HD it is lessened but is still there. Problem now is I am looking for the faint bands rather than just watching whats on show.
I think I have seen them on a pub TV, yip sad I know but trying to work out if it is my feed or just the feed in general.
The Panasonic is full HD (soo was the LG) and I am thinking now that I have that resolution I am seeing things that were always there with my old tv which was only 720.

What I am basically asking for is reassurance that this is normal.

Sorry in advance for the lengthy post, but it is a tad annoying.
Stu

---------- Post added at 20:12 ---------- Previous post was at 19:29 ----------

This is when panning btw

chris123 · 16-03-2011, 21:20

how do you recieve your sky sports? sky, cable,BT Vision,Freeview.anything through an aerial could give this.it seems that the tv are not faulty,it must be the feed to the tv,getting interference of some kind.are all your connections tight,between your "box" and the tv,are you using scart or HDMI leads?

Sinth · 16-03-2011, 21:43

Sorry forgot that bit!
Virgin V+ box (Samsung, was same with old box) and hdmi cable (Â£50 thing but given free with tv) I do not believe that much in cables btw.

This is fairly slight by btw, not massive banding.

chris123 · 16-03-2011, 22:28

it would be best to call virgin to get a tech to call. have you tried another HDMI cable(borrow someeone elses). only by changing things,the tv has changed,the box has been changed,and still the problem persists. get the tech to check your connections (they should be okay) and signal strength etc,they have the equipment to do this.

LexDiamond · 17-03-2011, 12:27

Do you still have your Samsung? If so have you tried plugging that back in to see if you still have the problem?

Peter_ · 17-03-2011, 15:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by LexDiamond

Do you still have your Samsung? If so have you tried plugging that back in to see if you still have the problem?

Little point as it would not work as the card would not be paired with the box.

Sinth · 17-03-2011, 20:41

Lex was asking if I still had my Samsung 26" tv I think. Nope sold it. I showed the tech who installed my new v+ box and all he said was it would have to be raised as higher level fault where a test setup would have to be carried out with my street box, i.e hooking up a tv to it.

Power levels are good, about +6 into the house, super hub also confirms this.

Oh well, just thought you guys would say yeah I get that.