I hae noticed when watching football the pictue cubes up when they are running. Also dark seens are not very clear. I have charter HD cable.
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This happens on my Panasonic Plasma on rare occasion (3 or 4 times a year.) It also happens with my Vizio LED. I believe its not a TV problem but a cable problem. I have Comcast and sometimes I need to unplug my cable box for a few minutes to re-boot it. Sometimes that works, but more often I'm just getting a bad signal from some unknown link in the chain from a live feed. It annoying but has never lasted. The other 99.9% of the time both TV work great.
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I'm not entirely certain what you mean by "cubes up" but it sounds like you are referring to the small "frozen" sections in the image associated with signal loss. For cable, this is often limited to only certain channels but you should call your cable company and have them check the signal at your house. As for dark scenes being too dark, your TV should have different picture settings and the default is often dark. Try other settings and that should fix it.
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I have Dish and have never seen anything like that. Are you sure you have your settings right?
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I have never experienced this problem. I have Comcast Cable service. It may be a cable issue.
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I have Direct TV and I can assure you I have never experienced anything but a flawless picture from my set except for the odd super storm which is very rare. I think you need to look to your provider as I believe it to be a cable issue.
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I only experience a cube up problem when our Comcast Cable is having problems... I suspect it is your cable provider.
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Sorry for typo... In any case I ordered this TV over the holidays. The first two TV's came with broken screens. The third one was intact. Watching football was maddening. Still shots of closeup players and sidelines was great. When the view zoomed out to the field showing both lines was awful. Color bleed from players into the field was bad. The field itself was not handled well, with blotchy, patchy areas away from the players. I discovered that I had a panel made by Utronics and that likely accounted for the substandard pictures. I would recommend going with another TV for sporting event viewing. Sorry for typo... In any case I ordered this TV over the holidays. The first two TV's came with broken screens. The third one was intact. Watching football was maddening. Still shots of closeup players and sidelines was great. When the view zoomed out to the field showing both lines was awful. Color bleed from players into the field was bad. The field itself was not handled well, with blotchy, patchy areas away from the players. I discovered that I had a panel made by Utronics and that likely accounted for the substandard pictures. I would recommend going with another TV for sporting event... » Read More Sorry for typo... In any case I ordered this TV over the holidays. The first two TV's came with broken screens. The third one was intact. Watching football was maddening. Still shots of closeup players and sidelines was great. When the view zoomed out to the field showing both lines was awful. Color bleed from players into the field was bad. The field itself was not handled well, with blotchy, patchy areas away from the players. I discovered that I had a panel made by Utronics and that likely accounted for the substandard pictures. I would recommend going with another TV for sporting event viewing. « Show Less
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Wow, there are so many little things that could be causing the problem. First of all it would help if you knew if your TV was capable to 1080p, I kind of doubt it, but most certainly it'll have 1080i if it is an HDTV. If you have 720 that is also very good. Next you need to check your setup on your PS3 screen settings and make sure you have every single format that is compatible with your television checked, this can be very important. When I first got my TV I had an older model 50" rear-projection HDTV. But mine came out before HDMI so I was forced to hook up via 3 cable (or 5 if you count the audio) composite. My TV could only handle 480i, 480p, and 1080i. It made a big difference which PS3 game I happened to be playing. It is important to read the back of the box of your PS3 games to read what resolution(s) each particular game supports. My Madden 08 only supports 480p, 480i, 720p. Because of this, even though my TV could handle 1080i which is HD, it is not supported by the game. And since my TV could not operate in 720p, that was a no go. Therefore, Madden O8 on my PS3 only showed on my big HDTV in 480p which is not at all HD. But what could I do? Nothing. But a game like Warhawk supports 720p and 1080i so my TV totally rocked in the 1080 department with that particular game. I had the exact same problem with Resistance: fall of man; it only supports 720p. But again, check your PS3 screen settings b/c if you don't have a given resolution checked, the PS3 won't even attempt to project it.
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No, I have not gotten that on mine. Not sure what that would be. Maybe check your cable connection to make sure they are not loose.
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I've thoroughly enjoyed my TV for sports (if only my sports team had been as enjoyable). Action sports, specifically football and some basketball look great. I actually disable the motion smoothing effect and think that the image has been outstanding. I agree with other responders in that you need to do some tweaking of the default setting but there are a few out there you can find via a web search to get you started.
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I have a Phillips 47" with "HD Natural Motion" and one of the first things I did was turn it off. Like you said everything looked "live". I don't know why anyone would want to watch their tv like that. I watched part an episode of Law and Order before changing it and it looked like it was on court tv. At first I thought it was some sort of special episode that they made look like that, as if they had a news crew filming them. Then I realized it was that setting.
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Hi Scott, Well, after installing several of the cameras, I have found the picture quality lacking in general. I installed with both the cables they supplied as well as serpentine POC coaxial cable in some areas rather than what they supplied due to distances I needed to run lines, and both are not good pictures. These are being used in a church environment, and we have a lot of interference from wireless devices and networks, so possibly affecting things here. May be a component/driver strength issue or an interference issue...not sure If using for home/smaller office, it may perform better. As for our environment, I am migrating to network based POE box cameras since DVR's have just not worked that well, and we've had numerous. I have had to replace them pretty much annually...hard drive crashes, firmware problems, power/fan problems, etc. Have only had this one a few months, so no problems thus far. Long range costs are just not worth replacing DVRs so often for our purposes any more. Sorry don't have better answer for your specific question.
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is it possible that it IS hd but dimmed? when i got my satellite upgrade, i was horrified to see that the picture i was getting was about half the brightness of over the air broadcasts that looked absolutely beautiful. it took me a day or so to figure out that the tv comes from the factory defaulted to 'autoview' under 'picturemode' in the picture menu. put it on 'sports' or 'standard' to suit your taste. this tv is all about inputs, and i assume you have it set on 'antenna/cable'. if you do, i should think you'd be getting HD just fine. good luck. -dan
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I think we're experiencing image burn-in on our 2 1/2-year-old 1080p LCD TV. When an HD show is on, there are now visible vertical lines marking where the sidebars of standard definition programs would be, almost as if a standard size screen were placed over the widescreen. There's also some shadowing in the top half of the standard screen area. This is most noticeable when the picture background is light colored. We had no idea this would happen. We were considering buying the Samsung model you've got, but we spend more than 5% of our TV time watching standard definition programs, and many of our DVD/Bluray movies have black bars on top and bottom. Maybe we'll just get by with our current set until the image burn-in problem is eliminated.
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Thanks for your reply. It happens to us when we go from non HD to HD and from HD to HD. Very annoying. We've dropped back to using the component cables, but I sure would like to use the HDMI. I was hesitant about complaining to Samsung, since our cable is so sketchy, but now I think I will.
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I've had mine for almost six months and it happened couple of times. I've noticed that it never happens when I watch a DVD or Blu-Ray disk, or when I am streaming something either from Internet or my media server. It only happened when I was watching cable using my Comcast digital cable box. When it happens it goes black and comes quickly right back. Before it comes back it shows for a split second a sign that it is establishing HDMI connection. I was wondering if it has something to do with the cable box, but it is so rare that it is difficult to identify a pattern.
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Ya im really worried that the feed from my blu-ray player is causing the issue because when i have the player off & its running through the receiver the background is dark black with denon displayed on screen like it should be, then when i turn on the bluray palyer im back to the side lighting isssue. I have a ps3 so i will try it but that means I lose all my hd sound due to the limitations of the ps3. :(
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more than likely you don't have HD chanel. It will only do HD 1080i on HD channels otherwise it goes to lower res. Mine works fine but with cable you have to go to the HD channels.
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I've noticed it in SD (using Dish Network) but not in HD yet. I'm thinking it's because I'm just using the RCA that came with it, but even without the HDMI cables the picture is fantastic. Can't wait to see the HD and SD channels and Blu-Ray with the HDMIs
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Your right on the money!! Mine does the same thing and I hate it. I was also watching the NBA playoffs and noticed and then it happend when a commercial was on and now I notice it all the time. My 27 1080i LCDTV Olevia has way better quality in HD and SD. I was using HDMI then switched back to component cables. One thing that did help me though is that I turned off all the special settings like the enhancements and black levels to get a true picture, because the manufacture hikes up the settings to make the TV look better on display at the store than in your house which will look a lot different.
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Yes there are settings in buried in the menu, you can do a color wash to help with burn in image. I keep ESPN on a bit and play video games and there aren't any issues. The first month there were little issues but would disappear but after a couple months there are not.
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Even I see a horizontal white line on the top edge for some channels. It happens only for some HD channels and goes away if I revisit the channel after an hour or so.