Ghosts and Pixilation on Big-Screen TV
Last weekend I brought home a 46" Samsung LCD TV. I connected in-house coax to Verizon set-top box and then ran a coax patch cable from set-top box to TV. Very dissapointing picture quality on almost all channels. Unexpected ghosts and pixilation for such a well-reviewed TV and highly regarded FiOS service. Checking connections and fine-tuning TV did not seem to help. Then I removed the set-top box and asked the TV to search for channels directly off of the signal from the street. This helped, but provided significantly fewer channels, no interactive guide, etc. Do I need an upgraded box? Upgraded firmware/software? Other suggestions?
Frank
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Last weekend I brought home a 46" Samsung LCD TV. I connected in-house coax to Verizon set-top box and then ran a coax patch cable from set-top box to TV. Very dissapointing picture quality on almost all channels. Unexpected ghosts and pixilation for such a well-reviewed TV and highly regarded FiOS service. Checking connections and fine-tuning TV did not seem to help. Then I removed the set-top box and asked the TV to search for channels directly off of the signal from the street. This helped, but provided significantly fewer channels, no interactive guide, etc. Do I need an upgraded box? Upgraded firmware/software? Other suggestions?
Frank
Frank, your post says you're using a coax cable from the STB to your TV. This implies that you're not using the higher-quality signals that the STB can product, like (in increasingly improving quality) composite, S-Video, component and HDMI. Your new LCD TV should accept the higher-quality imputs. Suggest you try a component or HDMI connection to your TV from the STB.
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