My picture quality is poor and a blur- any recommendations for set up using Time Warner HD cable.
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Thanks for your question. There is no specific set up for individual cable systems. If you are connected via an HDMI and you have an HD box, I would have your cable company come out and check it or replace the box.
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Sounds to me like you have a weak signal coming into your home. Get a cable technician out to your place with his meter. A weak signal is most likely the problem. Shouldn't cost you nothing.
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First make sure you have HD either cable or satellite and that you are on the HD group of channels. If you watch the tv on the non HD channels the picture will be distorted. Also either the cable/satellite and/or the tv remote should have a button something like "HD Zoom" or 2 arrows < >.Try those buttons you should have 3or4 picture size variations.
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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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Update: Watched a dvd last night (the same dvd I first tried) and the picture was perfect - even using HDMI 1080p setting! This time I chose "Anynet HDMI DVD" from the source list on my tv settings, which I don't remember being an option before. I previously chose "DVI". I wonder if that made the difference. Hmm. Anyway....glad my dvd's now look just as great as the HD channels. Thank you for responding C.Woodruff. :)LadyR
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I'd like to see some pictures from others as well. My 48" TCL's picture is so incredibly grainy, it's distracting. A HD TV shouldnt look like this when displaying 1080 content.
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If your cable box is HDMI compatible - then use an HDMI cable - best quality picture and sound
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Make sure your cable box is set to 1080P. I have stitched for a regular TV to a HD TV and had to call Comcast and reprogram the box. (easy to do over the phone)
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I just got it in today,. On the channel scan I am getting both analog and Clear QAM Local Networks on Time Warner.From the manual "US System NTSC-M, ATSC Standard (8VSB) and QAM"
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I had a similar problem with my panasonic player. Using a generic 1.3 HDMI cable gave an OK picture but introduced a time shift (lipsync) problem. I compensated this using a 70ms time delay feature of my receiver. When I contacted Panasonic they suggested buying one of their cables. Instead, I bought a (high Priced) HDMI cable and got no picture, just flicking images and sputtering sound. So I bought the Panasonic cable from Amazon and the lipsync issue went away and the picture was much better - especially with Blu-ray. However the "high-priced" cable works fine with my TIVO, in fact it seems to improve the picture. All the cables are supposed to be 1.3 compatible - go figure. I had a similar problem with my panasonic player. Using a generic 1.3 HDMI cable gave an OK picture but introduced a time shift (lipsync) problem. I compensated this using a 70ms time delay feature of my receiver. When I contacted Panasonic they suggested buying one of their cables. Instead, I bought a (high Priced) HDMI cable and got no picture, just flicking images and sputtering sound. So I bought the Panasonic cable from Amazon and the lipsync issue went away and the picture was much better - especially with Blu-ray. However the "high-priced" cable works fine with my TIVO, in... » Read More I had a similar problem with my panasonic player. Using a generic 1.3 HDMI cable gave an OK picture but introduced a time shift (lipsync) problem. I compensated this using a 70ms time delay feature of my receiver. When I contacted Panasonic they suggested buying one of their cables. Instead, I bought a (high Priced) HDMI cable and got no picture, just flicking images and sputtering sound. So I bought the Panasonic cable from Amazon and the lipsync issue went away and the picture was much better - especially with Blu-ray. However the "high-priced" cable works fine with my TIVO, in fact it seems to improve the picture. All the cables are supposed to be 1.3 compatible - go figure. « Show Less
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The problem probably isn't with the T V. I would ask for a replacement for the HD cable box. If you have cable, they will most likely charge you for the switch, Dish does not. I like the T V, but the sound quality sucks. I could add a inexpensive sound bar, but I only use it for awhile, at night, as a bedroom set. Good luck.
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I chose to take the cheapest one and use the RCA cables. I have a 42 inch plasma tv, and with the exception of a few really old black and white movies, everything I've watched so far is as good a picture as I could want or need. I don't see how HD would be that much better, and I think it also depends on what kind of WIFI you have. My internet is through DSL. At any rate, I have the the $40 Roku, and have never loved any gadget as much as I do this one.
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I bought this tv for my son last Christman & then got one for myself about a month ago. If you are a Time Warner customer you need the cable box to get the HD tier. Yes, it would be nice if we didn't need that, wouldn't it?
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any cheap HDMI cable offered from Amazon will do. I bought this TV in early October (from Amazon) and also purchased 2 - $5 dollar cables (also from Amazon). You do NOT need the fancy HDMI cables that cost $100+. For a little reference, advice, see this site, (CNET). http://reviews.cnet.com/hdmi-guide/?tag=pm (i don't work for Cnet or Amazon or any of the vendors, i was in the exact same position as you, and made the mistake once of buying expensive cables. never again, there is no difference in the picture, and my bluray is connected to this tv via a $5 HDMI cable thats 12 feet long. Monster cables that long would run near $200, and it just is not worth the money)
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Hmm, I'm not sure if that is true about it being too old, but I can tell you that mine was working with Time Warner Cable for about four months....then it died. I had to go back to renting one again. My great experiment did not work out for me. Good luck if you give it a try.
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This may help. I had this camera hooked up to my swann dvr and cables. It worked fine, I just didn't like the picture.
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Suggest you ask Etekcity since they've responded to prior questions. Our unit is providing HD video quality over 90 feet from its source over one Cat6
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We could not get this to work with Time Warner Cable -- their techs spent over 4 hours at our home trying to get the digital local channels to record, eventually blaming it on our private wireless network router config (bullcrap) so we returned it. Sorry! (but if you have TWC, good luck!)