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canofhumdingers
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Progressive scan questions
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Date created
30-Nov-2006, 7:32 PM
Well, the tv guy came by this afternoon & hsowed me that to use progressive scan, you must hook the component cables to a digital input. turns out my tv has both digital & analog component inputs, so that problems solved.

However, & this REALLY frustrated me, he did not offer any help with the issue of halos around objects against a light background. I showed them to him, he agreed, "yes, there are clearly halos there." But, his answer was there's nothing that can be done, because "that's just ahow HD tvs are."

Apparently, according to my tv repairman, when you send any signal other than an HD signal through an HD tv, this will result in halos (looks very similar to heavy edge enhancement gone awry). So if you watch regular dvds or regular cable channels (both analog & digital mind you) or anything else that's not HD, there will be halos outlining objects & people. He even went so far as to say this is true on all HD tvs.

I called bullcrap & asked for an explanation as to why this is so. His answer? "that's just how they work." I continued to adamantly disagree and ask him to thoroughly explain to me how the signal interacts with the tv so as to cause this haloing. He balked. He continually fell back to his answer of "that's just how it is." As i continued to press for an explanation behind his answer, he began to explain that things are "so complicated no, & you're running so many signals to the tv, that anything other than HD will create halos." He also said "when everything goes to HD, the problem will go away."

Really?, then why do i see the halos on HD programs sometimes to? Why are there halos also present on the tv generated picture control menu? He danced around the question & offered nothing but his original answer.

He turned to an HD channel & pointed out there were no halos. It was a low light interior shot on some law & order show. I agreed, "yes, there are no halos there, & they are mush less noticable on HD channels, but they DO STILL EXIST, if you watch long enough, you will see them at times. " I also explained that on the HD channels, the halos are easiest to spot on shots of buildings against the sky, esp. dueing sunsets. Unfortunately there was no programming on the couple of HD channels i get at the time that exhibited this.

So, he left without really answering my question & i'm very ticked off. The halos aren't too bad if you crank the sharpness up, but i shouldn't have to do that. At first they were a mild annoyance, but now thanks to this BS they tried to feed me, i'm thoroughly ticked off. I'm no mindless consumer who buys into anything a tech guy tells me. If you give me answer, have the information to back it up dangit!! If you don't have the information, then be honest & tell me you don't know. DONT try to give me an "answer" that doesn't really explain anything!

*sigh* So, I'll be calling customer support again tomorrow. hopefully they'll have a better answer than "that's just how it is."

Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps anything other than an HD signal really WILL produce haloing. But until i'm offered evidence to back that claim up, i'm not buying it.