Setting up an LCD TV

[BigManBill]

My family just got a Sharp Aquos 32" 720p LCD that we won in a competition. Since it is our first LCD TV I would like some tips for setting it up (brightness, contrast other settings I should change for a good picture). Also, in Wii the screen gets cut off slightly (only a tiny bit but still) and I can notice flicker in the menus, is this the refresh rate of the TV or something to do with the Wii?

 

[Dougsnake]

Try heading over the avforums.com and do a search for your model number is bound to be other users of this set with their own recommended settings,is a good base for you to start from, its how i did my tv then finely tweaked till i was happy and posted my settings for others.

Goodluck and happy tweaking

 

[Amnesia]

yeah like he says^^

i do have an Aquos but mine is a different model so what works for me may not work for you.

 

[DolbyDigitalTHX]

We have that model at home as a secondary TV (I normally use my projector for movies/gaming).

We're almost exclusively watching SD on it, so in hindsight it was a poor choice. Maybe it's par for the course for LCD TVs, but I really didn't expect any new technology to give such a poor picture. Worse still, RGB scart was no improvement over composite scart - I was expecting at least CRT quality.

That said, the wife doesn't care - so why should I, right...?

To be fair, the few times I hooked up HD equipment to it, the PQ was very good.

Anyhoo, settings are always subjective, but if you want some general pointers...the first thing I did was keep all settings at mid point, and resist the urge to boost sharpness and colour which will exacerbate pixellation and smearing.

I then turned the contrast way down, but increased the backlight to add overall punchiness without degrading image quality.

Of course, anyone else's settings/suggestions are only a starting point. Depending on the position of your TV, ambient lighting, and the source material displayed, you'll obviously want to tweak to taste.

Good luck!

 

[Amnesia]

We have that model at home as a secondary TV (I normally use my projector for movies/gaming).

We're almost exclusively watching SD on it, so in hindsight it was a poor choice. Maybe it's par for the course for LCD TVs, but I really didn't expect any new technology to give such a poor picture. Worse still, RGB scart was no improvement over composite scart - I was expecting at least CRT quality.

That said, the wife doesn't care - so why should I, right...?

To be fair, the few times I hooked up HD equipment to it, the PQ was very good.

Anyhoo, settings are always subjective, but if you want some general pointers...the first thing I did was keep all settings at mid point, and resist the urge to boost sharpness and colour which will exacerbate pixellation and smearing.

I then turned the contrast way down, but increased the backlight to add overall punchiness without degrading image quality.

Of course, anyone else's settings/suggestions are only a starting point. Depending on the position of your TV, ambient lighting, and the source material displayed, you'll obviously want to tweak to taste.

Good luck!

you can actually make the SD quality pretty good on these particular models....just do the exact opposite of what you did and that should work wonders.

sharpening picture on a LCD for SD content is a big no no and i dont even think the best plasma could match crt's for SD picture quality...so maybe your expectations were a little high.

 

[DolbyDigitalTHX]

you can actually make the SD quality pretty good on these particular models....just do the exact opposite of what you did and that should work wonders...

You think I didn't try the full range of settings? Of course I did. My experience was that increasing the contrast just highlighted pixellation and crushes the midtone detail. This is something not exclusive to LCD/HD TVs of course.

I suppose it all depends on your definition of 'pretty good'... plus our TV is used mostly with an old Sky digibox, which isn't the best of sources to start with.