Pixelating tv

[chassyp]

I have recently purchased one of those flat screen tv thingies!! When I got it home and plugged it in, the picture was awful and pixelating all over the place. I went back to the place of purchase and told them. I was advised to pay a further �150 for gold coated scart cables, and a fancy box which was to carry all the leads. This I was told, would cure the problem. At first it seemed a lot better . However, over time I have noticed the screen still pixelates at certain times. I am using a digital signal which is Virgin cable. Am I being fussy? Has anyone else had this problem?? Any help would be great.

[bigmamma]

Hello chassyp , I'm with VM too and am not too happy with the picture quality , and they do pixel at times . It's not my tv because I had a super clear picture through my digibox before getting cable tv . x

[Hymie]

Arrange for an engineer from Virgin Media to take a look. The signal strength may be the problem, they are able to boost your signal from the local distribution point, if that is the problem.

Enjoy listening to 5 minutes of recorded nonsence, before you get through to their call centre in India � at least the call is free.

[Ethel]

How is the picture through your aerial?

I have a great picture on my tv with Virgin.

[vehelpfulguy]

>I was advised to pay a further �150 for gold coated scart cables

I think you were given some very expensive bad advice.

While good Scast cables will improve the signal there is no need to spend �150

I bought some excellent ones (two in fact) from Argos for about �15 each that have been excellent.

I am afraid �150 is just silly money.

[Ethel]

Have you got the television set up properly in the onscreen menu?

My picture is awful unless it is toggled to HDMI

[boogieboogie]

Some of the digital channels do pixilate on occasion because they are broadcast that way.
If your TV is huge and the original program was filmed on cameras designed for TV (specifically 768 x 576 lines of resolution) this is like blowing a picture up on a photocopier and loses quality.
Also before broadcast they have been digitized and require memory for storage, sometimes picture quality in places is compromised to save or fit on to memory. (Like a digital camera quality pixilates at low res/less memory)..
To get the perfect picture on one of these ridiculous large TV's the camera that filmed the program has to be a High Definition camera, then edited and stored without losing definition/quality then finally broadcast as the same resolution as filmed. Which may happen in the future.