We recently purchased a 55 inch LG LCD T.V. and love it except we can't see the scores of a hockey game or news tickers that g
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Adjust your screen resolution / scaling options with whatever is feeding the TV ... not the TV, what's feeding the TV .... i.e cable box. BTW, size is immaterial, resolution and H:V ratio is
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^^ Unless someone fiddled with the zoom/scaling options on the TV. Saying that it's immaterial is not quite correct. Once the TV is verified to be on it's 'defaults' -THEN- you go into the TV source zoom/scaling options if the problem is still there.
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To be clear:
1) Ensure the MAX RESOLUTION (i.e. 1080p) that your device outputs and TV supports is enabled in every device attached to your TV.
2) VIDEO QUALITY is dictated by quality of the video signal. That can't be changed generally except for example Netflix or other network streaming that has to drop to a lower quality if it detects insufficient bandwidth.
3) VIDEO QUALITY can be low if you chose an SD station instead of HD.
4) There are certain TWEAKS you can do in your HDTV settings to optimize color etc but that's not going to make lower quality video noticeably higher quality.
5) Some HDTV's have the ability to create ARTIFICIAL frames (i.e. 120Hz or 240Hz motionblur) which helps sports programs for many people but don't use that for normal video as it will just look weird. That's about SMOOTHNESS not quality.
*So in general it's either a setup issue or you're limited by the content provided.
1) Ensure the MAX RESOLUTION (i.e. 1080p) that your device outputs and TV supports is enabled in every device attached to your TV.
2) VIDEO QUALITY is dictated by quality of the video signal. That can't be changed generally except for example Netflix or other network streaming that has to drop to a lower quality if it detects insufficient bandwidth.
3) VIDEO QUALITY can be low if you chose an SD station instead of HD.
4) There are certain TWEAKS you can do in your HDTV settings to optimize color etc but that's not going to make lower quality video noticeably higher quality.
5) Some HDTV's have the ability to create ARTIFICIAL frames (i.e. 120Hz or 240Hz motionblur) which helps sports programs for many people but don't use that for normal video as it will just look weird. That's about SMOOTHNESS not quality.
*So in general it's either a setup issue or you're limited by the content provided.
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I agree.... but that was never said. You are confusing two different statements. I didn't say that the settings on the TV were immaterial....
1. "Adjust your screen resolution / scaling options with whatever is feeding the TV ... not the TV, what's feeding the TV .... i.e cable box.
2. "BTW, size is immaterial, resolution and H:V ratio is"
If the TV has just arrived, it should be at it's default settings, of course if someone fiddled with it, ya would expect the user to know they did it. Yes you can do the same thing at the TV, but SoP dictates that you make these adjustments as needed from the cable box. I'll address that at the end.
Again, screen size is immaterial. The stuff getting cut off 1920 x 1080 is going to look EXACTLY the same on a 21, 24, 27, 30, 36, 42, 55, 80 or 120" screen. The stuff is getting cut off because the ratio of the vertical to horizontal resolution of the signal is not matching the vertical / horizontal ration of the screen. What is happening, to give an analogy is providing a 1920 x 1200 signal to a 1920 x 1080 screen. So yes it is entirely irrelevant what size the screen is because this is what will happen on any 1920 x 1080 screen regardless of the size..... you simply can't fit 1200 pixels when only 1080 pixels are available, so it gets cut off the the image had to be scaled which means bvack bars or image distortion.
Cable boxes and other electronics providing the signal all you to manipulate the image thru "letter boxing" or other means to scale the image to fit the screen. When people set their TV to scale the letter boxed "wide screen" image full screen so they don't have to look at the black bands at top and bottom, this "cuts off" some of the image at the sides...
You can display a single image on 21, 24, 27, 30, 36, 42, 55, 80 or 120" screens (1920 x 1080) and aside from physical size, the image will be exactly the same on every display .... if you you filled the screen image with a word processor page for example and typed .... abcdefg... until ya hit the screen edge that letter will be at the screen edge on every one of the displays.
Now if you go into the picture settings of the cable box or whatever and adjust the screen image from normal to stretch to zoom to autofit, you will see any writing along the bottom of screen change it's distance from the screen edge and sometimes disappear as the top and bottom edges of the image get cropped.
And yes, you can make the same or similar adjustments at the TV but again, it's recommended to do this from the signal box. Pay close attention at the 1:10 mark where she talks about clipping the top and bottom of the image.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E8wX00T1jg
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