Possible 'Ghosting' on CRT TV

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TV in the living room is a 4 year old Thomson 24" CRT TV with combined dvd. The problem is and I don't know what the technical terms are but it appears to be ghosting.

Say your watching a programme and it's night time for example (a dark background) you can see vertical lines, you can see what appears to be parts of other programmes/adverts displayed faintly in the background, sometimes still sometimes moving. You can make this out more so on a dark background but there also visible on a light background.

The connections at the back of the TV are 2 scart sockets and I have a Philip's DVD recorder and a Sky Digibox all hooked up. The scart sockets used are just the cheap ones you buy from the high st catalogue store.

I think I might have to buy more expensive scart cables to eliminate the ghosting but not being too sure if cheap scart cables is the cause I don't want to be buying expensive scart cables only to find it makes no difference.

Any thoughts to this, if it is the scart cables can you recommend any good quality scart cables.

Thanks in advance folks.
 
ah thats interference, i have it on my crt when im on the xbox 360, but i goes if i tune into a channel that is blank then prss tv/av.
 
Fao: Tesla

Yes, Sky and DVD's. If I have the DVD recorder and Sky digibox switched off and just watch the 5 terrestial channels the terrestial channels are fine.
 
It could be RF interference from either of the devices, going through the aerial cable. Just connect the aerial straight to the TV. If this fixes it, you need to change the RF output channel on the offending device.

Make sure that the sky and dvd are both set to RGB, if your TV can handle it. You might find only the first scart (ext1 or AV1) can handle scart.

Try disconnecting one of the devices (and unplugging the scart and aerial cable from the TV), then try the other one. This will rule out one of the devices/cables being iffy.

If you still have the problem, buy one decent cable (any screened, fully-wired scart will be OK, no need to spend more than £20), and try that.
 
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Right, I think that the TV is outputting a standard analogue channel over one of the scart sockets.

I am not sure which scart, probably AV2/EXT2.

Try this.

Unplug all the leads from the TV.

Now, plug in the DVD to AV1 and start it playing on a dark scene. Can you see ghosting?

Plug in the aerial, any ghosting now?

Then repeat the same procedure but plug the DVD player into the other scart sockets in turn.

Report back with what you find.
 
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