LG TV Odd Picture Quality
Discussion
So, my dad has got a 47" LG LED full HD TV (lots of acronyms!), it is marvellous apart from when watching DVDs or movies through the Apple TV, where the quality seems to be a bit off and in parts the film looks like it's been shot on a GoPro rather than the massively expensive cameras it was shot on. I think I saw something similar asking about this problem, and the consensus was that the OP in that thread was watching something that wasn't recorded in HD, and this caused the issue, and in the case of the DVD player, this would be true in my dad's case. However, with the Apple TV, most if not all of the movies we play through that are 1080p. The only thing I can think of for the Apple TV would be it's a 2nd gen and puts out 720p, but the films are in 1080p. But it does the same thing with the DVD player, which is SD (I am yet to convince him that a Blu Ray player is the way forward). Any ideas PH?
ETA: Just for the record, I don't get any of these issues on my 32" LCD HD TV which cost 5 times less than my dad's LG and was a Sainsbury's own brand thing, so it's definitely not the rest of the equipment that's the problem
ETA: Just for the record, I don't get any of these issues on my 32" LCD HD TV which cost 5 times less than my dad's LG and was a Sainsbury's own brand thing, so it's definitely not the rest of the equipment that's the problem
Edited by DanB7290 on Friday 26th April 11:20
It's probably a combination of settings that effect the motion, sharpness and colours:
If there is a frame interpolation mode try turning it off (AKA motionflow or other similar names)
Go through the advanced menu (while viewing a HDMI signal incase the inputs have separate settings)and turn off ALL the 'advanced' features. Things like 'contrast enhancer', 'clear white', 'black corrector' and any 'wide' colour space option.
If there is a 'film' mode, then perhaps this will do most of the above by default (on my Sony TVs using 'Theatre' mode does this and leaves a pretty decent, if not quite perfect picture that wasn't that far off from calibrated when I did measure it).
Of course it could just be that the source is compressed, despite it being 'HD' that's only part of the quality story since if the bitrate is reduced too far it will make the picture look much worse than the BluRay version.
If there is a frame interpolation mode try turning it off (AKA motionflow or other similar names)
Go through the advanced menu (while viewing a HDMI signal incase the inputs have separate settings)and turn off ALL the 'advanced' features. Things like 'contrast enhancer', 'clear white', 'black corrector' and any 'wide' colour space option.
If there is a 'film' mode, then perhaps this will do most of the above by default (on my Sony TVs using 'Theatre' mode does this and leaves a pretty decent, if not quite perfect picture that wasn't that far off from calibrated when I did measure it).
Of course it could just be that the source is compressed, despite it being 'HD' that's only part of the quality story since if the bitrate is reduced too far it will make the picture look much worse than the BluRay version.
The DVD player connected by scart is reducing your resolution you have to use hdmi from the DVD straight to the tv. Throw the scart lead in the bin. Your tv is only as good as your input signal, you tv wants 1080p lines all the time to maximise the image but all sources apart from Bluray give way less than this say 620 lines. So the TVs processing has to make up the additional lines up to 1080. Most TVs do this poorly the best ones at it are Panasonic which is why they are more expensive than LG.
Give the Tv 1080 lines as often as you can if you want great picture everything else is a compromise and that is DVD via scart!!
Give the Tv 1080 lines as often as you can if you want great picture everything else is a compromise and that is DVD via scart!!
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