Help with Panasonic TXP37X2O

elvch01

I'm surprised you are seing a low quality picture. Have you tried connecting the aerial directly to the TV rather than going through the top-up-TV box. It could be an upscaling issue

Hammyman

gabyjane wrote: »

Thanks for forum help. After spending last night and tonight faffing with it from help on there i have decided our 3 year old LG deff has a better picture.
Just watched eastenders as thought it may be something i could set it to easily as one of the onlys thing i watch and got it spot on..most of the time it is i have to admit a perfect picture BUT at times it flickers and the faces are what i would call a little distorted..people on scrren are great but people in the background aren't...kind of fuzzy round the edge.

That's artifacting and its due to the transmission from the TV channel being compressed. The larger the TV, the more noticable it is. On my mates 52" Sony, its damned near unwatchable on standard definition. You get the same on photos saved on computers as JPG. As you zoom in, you start to notice "noise" around the edges of things. The smaller the filesize for a given size photo, and hence the higher the compression, the worse it is. Same applies to Digital TV - the more channels on a MUX or transponder, the more compressed they are.

Turn down the sharpness which will reduce it. Also whilst in "Picture", there's a menu entry called "CATS". This automatically reduces the brightness when it gets darker. Turn it off if you're finding the picture looks dark on a night time. Also...P-NR, turn that to mid and see if it makes a difference.
Next...Menu, Setup, Other Settings (you'll need to scroll down as it might be on page 2). In there, turn on Intelligent Frame Creation and see if it reduces the jerkiness. If its already on, turn it off and see. Also in there is "Resolution Enhancer" which helps improve standard definition content. Try that on MID.

gabyjane

elvch01 wrote: »

I'm surprised you are seing a low quality picture. Have you tried connecting the aerial directly to the TV rather than going through the top-up-TV box. It could be an upscaling issue

Think it is connected to the top up box..well i assume so but dh wored it all up..ill get him to change it and see but will that mean we cant watch top up? if so not worth doing..
Thanks

gabyjane

Hammyman wrote: »

That's artifacting and its due to the transmission from the TV channel being compressed. The larger the TV, the more noticable it is. On my mates 52" Sony, its damned near unwatchable on standard definition. You get the same on photos saved on computers as JPG. As you zoom in, you start to notice "noise" around the edges of things. The smaller the filesize for a given size photo, and hence the higher the compression, the worse it is. Same applies to Digital TV - the more channels on a MUX or transponder, the more compressed they are.

Turn down the sharpness which will reduce it. Also whilst in "Picture", there's a menu entry called "CATS". This automatically reduces the brightness when it gets darker. Turn it off if you're finding the picture looks dark on a night time. Also...P-NR, turn that to mid and see if it makes a difference.
Next...Menu, Setup, Other Settings (you'll need to scroll down as it might be on page 2). In there, turn on Intelligent Frame Creation and see if it reduces the jerkiness. If its already on, turn it off and see. Also in there is "Resolution Enhancer" which helps improve standard definition content. Try that on MID.

Thanks i know what you mean about the bigger the screen the more distorted it is, this is one reason we decided against the 40" infact ide be really fed up if we had got it as it would have looked too big if anything else! Our friends have i think a 50" and tbh i dont think sit that far away from their tv than we do, theirs from a quick watch of it is good BUT they spent over £1k on it so would hope so! My sil has a 46" and again an ok pic but never taken that much notice really..again they spent about £800+..maybe i shouldn't have been a cheapskate! Both are infront of them though as opposed to on the wall but one thing our tv has is the sorround watchy thing?!! where you can view from any angle..it seems to work with me infront and at the pc so is not the fact it is high up. My sil's kids threw a wii control too hard not long after they had got it and smashed the screen so another reason it has to go high up, it prob wouldn't have lasted the week iv'e had!

I'll try the settings suggested thanks and see how we get on, last night we had it on all diff channels and i have to say i was on here and kept spinning round to see the difference and they all looked ok. I am VERY very picky and tbh will nit pick at everything if it is not right! For most people they would think it was nye on perfect but not me! At the end of the day it is a very good picture when it's good, i'm just not liking the sudden changes throughout progs.

Thanks again ill report back later!

doverswot

The cnet review from March 2010 was pretty compliementry on this TV, but it did also make the following obersvation;

....TX-P37X20B is able to render colours shown in HD material with impressive subtlety and reasonable accuracy. The set's colour performance declines markedly, however, when you switch to standard-definition material, with some rogue tones creeping in.

"but did see the one in the shop working and looks great." One thing I rembered reading somewhere was that shops will normally demo the screens using an HD feed, and that its worth asking to see a screen with a standard def is important for your viewing.

I find it difficult to stop myself over analysing picture and sound quality when I've bought a new TV, but after a short period time I find myself not registering any differences or quirks. But maybe that's jut me

gabyjane

doverswot thanks.

yes i agree with the shop viewing it is very important for to me to see it working but never asked how it was hooked up. When we bought the LG we went over to Currys, i was going over to get a Samsung and as soon as we saw it it had a terrible picture, they did say that all of their tv's were hooked up to just normal aerials which made me think, then i looked at the others and the LG was a fab pic so we just impulse bought it without really looking into it! it really does have a brilliant picture really clear.
This one ive looked into and been advised to get this over the other LCD Panasonic one so that's that..it's not dreadful by any means i am just picky!

vyle

gabyjane wrote: »

Think it is connected to the top up box..well i assume so but dh wored it all up..ill get him to change it and see but will that mean we cant watch top up? if so not worth doing..
Thanks

If you're watching top up TV through an exertnal box that's connected by scart, it will look horrible. the only option would be to either plug your top up tv card into the CAM slot on the side of the TV, or get a new box that has an HDMI output and upscales.

gabyjane

vyle wrote: »

If you're watching top up TV through an exertnal box that's connected by scart, it will look horrible. the only option would be to either plug your top up tv card into the CAM slot on the side of the TV, or get a new box that has an HDMI output and upscales.

Thanks..does it even have a cam slot? where would it be just looked and cannot see one..also think top up is just standard when boxes are sent out as not long had 2 new ones. Just spent the last 10 mins trying to get the SD card in and working..it is now saying file not valid, which in the book says 'no pictures/files' i know it is full so?!.think ill just give up!! Also meant to say the LG was perfect so why is it different for this one?

penrhyn

The CAM slot is just above the SD card slot, along side the volume/input select etc buttons.
TUTV don't do CAM card readers any more AFAIK, though.
If you want to get the best out of your TV you need an HD source.
Not sure what restrictions there are with the SD reader, my Panasonic DVD player won't read multiple directories of Jpegs.

gabyjane

penrhyn wrote: »

The CAM slot is just above the SD card slot, along side the volume/input select etc buttons.
TUTV don't do CAM card readers any more AFAIK, though.
If you want to get the best out of your TV you need an HD source.
Not sure what restrictions there are with the SD reader, my Panasonic DVD player won't read multiple directories of Jpegs.

Thanks.

Can we put the card in the cam slot then and then attatch the top up box to the hdmi bit on the tv..is that right?! Have faffed a lot with settings suggested on the av forum and they have been very helpful, they still looked dreadful so have set it to what i think is good and so far so good so until i get picky again ill leave it! As for HD not ofr me i'm afraid..really dont get the hype and have watched friends tvs and dont get it all tbh! really think the LG we have is fab still and maybe that's why!

As for the SD card it still says 'no file' when you say multiple do you mean the amount of pics on one card?