new tv - picture slightly dark at the corners

jaydeeuk1

JohnB47 wrote: »

I've just bought a Panasonic Viera TX-32AS600 tv. I'm pretty happy with it but I've noticed that the corners are slightly darker than on the rest of the screen. Its called vignetting, I believe. The sort of thing you see on old photographs taken using early cameras with poor optics.

This is my first experience with led tv's - I've been using a crt one for many years now.

So, for those of you who have an led tv, is this normal and just something I need to accept, or is it maybe a fault?

My 6 year old sony LCD which was around this price doesn't have that problem, its perfectly uniform (mind you, its back from the days when a Sony was really a Sony, not some turkish rebadge). Maybe Panasonic don't build them like they used to.

If it was me, I'd be sending it back, every time you look at the TV it will annoy you, its like having a dud pixel.

Glad you bought it from John Lewis, they have decent CS so should just do a straight swap.

borse2008

JohnB47 wrote: »

Actually I've just this evening figured out how to access the freetime stuff, at least one way. I go to a certain type of home screen and there is a window called On Demand. This gives access to bbc, itv, 4od and others, which allow you to select and view 'old' broadcasts. Because I had seen a bbc app elsewhere on the tv, I was expecting to see apps for itv, 4od etc. So just my confusion (or the usual total lack of instructions that seem to be the norm these days).

There might be other ways to select old broadcasts, for example the same home screen has a Guide which is different to the Freeview guide. Not quite sure what the difference is. I thought at first that this guide was the freetime one that I could simply go backwards through it and select old programs. Can't seem to do this though.

Lots to play with. Pity about them dull corners though. The missus hasn't spotted them yet, so maybe I'm worrying unduly.

Cheers.

Send it back get a replacement which your well within your rights about.

If it does it with another one then you know its the tv?

roadster1

I also have this TV. The menus etc. are not very intuitive so you have to poke around quite a bit to find stuff. Did yours do a software update when you first connected to the internet? Mine had a slip of paper in the box explaining that you had to update the software, then go into the menus and change the EPG settings. Panasonic epg gives a fairly standard looking epg and the Freetime setting gives a completely different epg that allows you to roll back through the previous week.

Moneymaker

borse2008 wrote: »

Ha i am here to help, im a gadget guy ive heard

Ha, I've also heard that you're a gadget guy.

BTW, I'm happy to help with grammar and punctuation.