Back in the summer my wife and I bought a new tv when we moved. It's a 55 inch RCA LED TV. I feel like recently, I've been noticing a TON of motion blur/ghosting that I never really noticed before. Is that even possible? Am I losing my mind?
I did few tests as well. For example, if I'm watching ESPN or a game of hockey it looks good and clear - no issues. I noticed that if I put on AMC to watch the Walking Dead, it's awful. The motion blur is pretty bad on certain channels. I also have my PS4 hooked up to this tv, and can honestly say I've never really noticed any major issues.
The tv it self doesn't appear to have anything within the settings to combat this, it does have a "MFC Setting" as well as a "Video/Graphic" setting within the picture settings, but that's it. I also messed around with the settings and switched the tv from 1080i to 720p. Still not much help though.
Anyway, can anyone offer advice or if it's just something to deal with since it's an LED tv, etc.? I feel like this wasn't noticeable in the past, but has gotten worse...which has me worried since the tv is only like 4 months old.
My last thought was maybe the HDMI cable was faulty that runs from the DIRECTV box to the TV...but I didn't think that would make a difference.
Thanks in advance guys!
If you have the TV's menu open and still see ghosting then it's a problem with the tv itself.
What's the actual TV model? Sometimes it's a warranty issue and the actual model info will help us all track it down.
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MilkmanDanimal wrote:You did live before digital distribution of old, cheap games. Now you just play games.
I recall seeing something somewhere that certain signal providers were reducing framerates on certain channels. If the refresh rate on the channel is mismatched with what the tv can do then that might account for the blurring only happening for some content and not others.
Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
Thank you both for the response, I appreciate it. In terms of the type of TV - it's a RCA 55inch class LED 1080p tv.
In terms of when the ghosting/motion blurring is the worst, it seems to be only on certain channels/dvr recordings. For example, I recorded Home Alone on AMC the other day...and it is pretty bad on the RCA. I went in the basement to watch it on our vizio tv and there was no blur what so ever.
The other odd thing is it's only certain channels I guess? For example, watched the Blackhawks game last night and didn't really notice anything. The ice and puck looked great! Turned on CNN just now, and the picture looks good, no major blur (albeit it's just a bunch of talking heads). I later watched a movie recorded from HBO and it wasn't great, but it wasn't super noticeable. Just curious if anyone else has run into this issue and how they fixed it.
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So when something is recorded you get ghosting but when it's live it looks okay?
How did I live before digital distribution of old, cheap games?
MilkmanDanimal wrote:You did live before digital distribution of old, cheap games. Now you just play games.
Not necessarily, that was just an example.
We watched some stuff we recorded on ABC and it looked pretty good. I'm guessing maybe this particular to just doesn't handle certain tv stations broadcasts well?
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