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 JeepMattC'mon the UPremium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE
kudos:2
 ·Verizon FiOS
2 edits | reply to JPL
Re: Continuing Picture Quality Degredation In Philadelphia said by JPL:Ok, now I know we're definitely not seeing the problem you are. You got it JPL - they're not seeing it in Wayne either. The person that came by my home Thursday verified that as well. So as I said earlier - it's definitely an issue between the VHO and me and KA and whoever else is seeing it - and NOT everyone out of the Philly VHO. (See my Points A,B,C,D explanation above)
As KA mentioned earlier, they keep stressing to us that "it's being taken seriously" - but we don't get any updates at all - unless we bitch and prod for one - and those updates are merely, "we're still trouble-shooting". | |
JPLPremium
join:2007-04-04
Downingtown, PA
kudos:1
1 edit | One thing that really surprises me is that both me and K are in West Chester. Granted the WC area is a little spread out, and really encompasses more than just the city itself, so I guess it's technically possible that you and he are both fed out of the same office, while I'm fed out of a different office (if I understand how all these feeds work, that is - I'm basically talking out of my you-know-what on this). Some of what you've described in this thread really sounds horrible. For example when I have folks come over I usually get "man you're picture looks so CLEAR" not "what the hell's wrong with your TV, dude?"
I have to say, I REALLY noticed it last night coming back from my friend's house. He has a really nice TV, so I don't think it's that - it's gotta be that Comcast is still that crappy. I swear my SD looked better than his HD. In fact, while the game was on at his house, the feed flipped to SD mode - during a commercial, or it may have been highlights of another game during a break. You know I could see zero difference between the HD feed and the SD - the HD was THAT bad. When I put on my HD it's obvious. It smacks you upside the head - especially on channels like Discovery HD, and NGC HD (even, ironically, CSN HD, which I think has a really nice picture) - it's so clear. The difference is obvious - you KNOW you're watching HD, and it's not just because it kicks into widescreen mode (some of those channels have the annoying habit of stretching their SD commercials to fill the screen. I really wish they would stop that). | |
| Been following the saga of pixelation the past few weeks and just wanted to let you know that everything's fine here in the Exton/Chester Springs, PA area. I haven't noticed any signal degradation since I had the service installed in April. | |
JeepMattC'mon the UPremium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
1 edit | Well, no new updates this morning - other than the SD pic quality is exceptionally bad this morning - even on my 30" TV.
Wow - guess they really can't find the problem!
Oh, but wait-
My ESPN2-HD finally stopped pixellating! WOOHOO!
I do want to thank all the others in the area that have been private messaging me with your location and issue as well. It's good info for me to pass on so that they do realize it's more than just me that's having problems. No worries - I will be your leader.  | |
 GeekNJPremium
join:2000-09-23
Waldwick, NJ | I'm telling you, it would be less stessful for you if you just moved to NJ. An added benefit are all the good sports teams we support  | |
JeepMattC'mon the UPremium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE
kudos:2 | Geek-
Please thank your Mets for giving us back 6 games in the standings.
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"ONE team - ONE city - ONE dream!!" | |
JeepMattC'mon the UPremium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
| For anyone in my area right now - at 2pm -
On Food Network (144) - Emeril's face looks like it's on fire right now. All grainy, rounded - and blurry - you can barely make out his features.
For some reason the pic has been "extra" bad today.
This is what we've dealt with for a month now. Variably changing, compressed, grainy PQ that they can't figure out.
At least my AC finally got repaired today.
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"ONE team - ONE city - ONE dream!!" | | |
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| reply to JeepMatt
In your STB, press power then menu within two seconds. Arrow down to the 4x3 override setting and set it to 480i. Don't set it to 480p or strecth. You may not want to do this but....it will improve the picture quality a bit. Vertical lines during fast motion etc. | |
JeepMattC'mon the UPremium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE
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Thanks, but that's the setting i've been on since january.
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"ONE team - ONE city - ONE dream!!" | |
 KA3SGM- -... ...- -Premium
join:2006-01-17
West Chester, PA
·Verizon FiOS
 ·Cricket Broadband
| reply to Motortree
said by Motortree:In your STB, press power then menu within two seconds. Arrow down to the 4x3 override setting and set it to 480i. Don't set it to 480p or stretch. You may not want to do this but....it will improve the picture quality a bit. Vertical lines during fast motion etc. Motortree, I keep the 4:3 override turned off altogether. My set does not support 480i 'override' via the HDMI cable, just 480p or stretch, both of which don't look right being zoomed of stretched.
I guess it does not want to re-interlace 480p or 720p back to 4801. I keep it turned off and I get a 4:3 box with the side bars showing as black, it is true 4:3 giving me about a 33" diagonal picture while watching SDTV. The set automatically switches to 16:9 when the received video format switches.
I have an active cablecard in the set, so I can receive everything without a separate box, although I still have a HD-DVR attached via HDMI, giving me the ability to do HD Picture In Picture, or record 2 shows while watching a third.
The cablecard does not provide VOD capabilities, or an interactive program guide, but I can always check the guide on the DVR as a reference, then tune the channel I want to.
I have the TV hooked to an off-air antenna so I can A/B between Fios and broadcast TV, and there is a fairly obvious difference between off-air(Best) to Fios via cablecard(not quite best) to Fios through the Motorola DVR(fair to Poor).
So there could be some issues with the DVR's, but I have 3 of them and already switched them around the house with no improvment, and I don't see how I could magically have 3 DVR's go bad the same way, simultaneously, on May 19,2007. 
The set is only 4 months old, and was Samsung's top of the line 40" LCD when I bought it. Nearly $3000 it cost me.
A true 1080p capable set (1920/1080p), although I don't have any 1080p sources yet, maybe HD/DVD iin the future...
It supports 2 HDMI, 2 Component, 1 S-Video, 3 Composite, 2 1394 Firewire, and a HD15 PC VGA Input. Plus an NTSC/ATSC RF tuner input, and a QAM RF tuner input. It has a Dolby Digital S/PDIF optical out to feed a home theater receiver.
Heres the spec sheet if anyone wants to look: »www.samsung.com/Products/TV/LCDT···inal.pdf
I have tried several HDMI cables, Component Cables, S-Video cables. Nothing ever makes a difference, other than you can't get HD via Composite or S-Video cable.
14 years ago I discovered the perfect analog picture via C-band satellite. My 10' C-band dish still stands in my backyard, as a monument as to what was.
Analog satellite employs FM for video transmission, instead of the AM NTSC(never the same color) broadcast video we all know and hate. As long as the signal is strong enough, the FM video is essentially immune to noise and distortion as conventional AM analog video.
As long as the signal was full quieting, I had the same 'studio grade' picture quality that was being delivered to broadcast stations and cable operators. Along with an S-VHS VCR I had the best PQ available in the pre-HD days.
I got that back when I first hooked my HD set up to FIoS, but somewhere since 5/19/2007, that PQ has slipped away.
I can even see the PQ diminished on a 27" Sony CRT, so I won't accept any suggestions that there is a problem with my HD set.
I have NOT re-adjusted ANYTHING on my TV, and all the signal levels, equipment operation has since then been verified OK by a Verizon tech, and they agreed that the picture does not look like it's supposed to, and a month later, still no one can tell me why.
They want to waste more of my time for another look.
Well their engineer is supposed to be showing up Tuesday evening to take another look, Both myself AND my wife will be here to see what they have to say.
She is more mad than I am, and has been telling me to just cancel the Fios TV service and go back to Dish Network or DirecTV.
Even my kids complain about something wrong with the TV picture.
I ask that they review my service account records before arriving, to note that they are the 14th
(YES, F-O-U-R-T-E-E-N-T-H)  , separate Verizon visit to my home since February 2007.
I have my erroneous $1380.45 FiOS bill on hand to show them too.
It would be nice to finally hear from someone face to face as to why they don't want my business!
I hope they can give me a good answer, or they can gather up any equipment that they want, and I will show them the door.
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