PV70 and Sport

don99

Hello,
I have just purchased a panasonic PV70.

The pcture is great for all things except sport.
The close ups are good but as soon as the camera pans out, the picture becomes fuzzy.

I am watching via Chorus Digital(cable) service in Ireland.

Would SKY be better?

Any help would be appreciated.

Doug

Lump

Good Work reading your original thread:

Well the source won't be HD, the picture will be really compressed so it can be sent via Satellite, as football has lots of detail, the compression will suffer, and when panning the interlaced picture will need to be up converted to Progressive scanning, also not helping with picture quality.

Unless you are feeding the TV with HD, there's little/no point in having one.

conax

don99 wrote:

Hello,
I have just purchased a panasonic PV70.

The pcture is great for all things except sport.
The close ups are good but as soon as the camera pans out, the picture becomes fuzzy.

I am watching via Chorus Digital(cable) service in Ireland.

Would SKY be better?

Any help would be appreciated.

Sky would be better, but in the intrim try adqusting the settings of your TV, and turn the "sharpness off" you can play with the "Noise reduction" and " Mpeg artifact reduction" setings but normally when setting a TV these should be all turned off, however with chorus there is an improvement if the NR is turned up. this will marginally improve the picture and is not a fix.

Lump wrote:

Well the source won't be HD, the picture will be really compressed so it can be sent via Satellite, as football has lots of detail, the compression will suffer, and when panning the interlaced picture will need to be up converted to Progressive scanning, also not helping with picture quality.

Unless you are feeding the TV with HD, there's little/no point in having one.

Wha?

Lump

? Can you not understand what I said?

Lots of compression is used, as a result, standard defination that is up converted to deisplay on a HD tv will look rubbish.

conax

Lump wrote:

? Can you not understand what I said?

the picture will be really compressed so it can be sent via Satellite.

the compression will suffer,

and when panning the interlaced picture will need to be up converted to Progressive scanning,

Unless you are feeding the TV with HD, there's little/no point in having one.

Yeah I understood that alright.

Lump

Yes, it will be really compressed, generally about 200:1

I was supposed to say to the compression quality with suffer with high detail, IE there will be compression artifacts introduced to the picture.

John

Snake Plisken

Sky will look better for sport then Chorus Digital as Chorus/NTL compress the hell out of the channels. I've the same set then yours OP and on Satellite Sky Sports look grand for Football Golf etc. On the ITV/BBC channels there is kind of what I would call a frizzy effect around the players from distance from distance. But to get the real benifits from your TV you probably need to go full out Sky HD.

Snake

starman100

I have a Panasonic PV71 since May and a lot of the fuzziness has gone away over time, picture has definitely improved so be patient. Football is fine from 10' away.