Comments on: There is a melting face on my TV

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:04:13 +0000

I’ve noticed this effect on certain source material, usually upscaled SD digital tv. I think it’s some artifact of the compression interfering with the upscaling routine. Strange that you’re seeing it on a DVD. Try turning off all the sharpening and other picture improvement wizardry, and if your DVD has upscaling, try that rather than the TV’s.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:13:03 +0000

And gain (warranty exempt) screen burn!

By: David

David — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:55:55 +0000

I have noticed this effect on a few LCD TVs, but not specifically with DVD playback. The worst offender was a Sony Bravia with technology to combat motion blur which seemed to create even more bizarre visual artifacts if anything.

In fact, most LCDs are quite poor – telly buyers need to choose very carefully or go for Plasma, which seems to out-perform all but the most high-end LCDs.

Go plasma and wave goodbye to pixel risotto, motion blur, flat shadows and stickyface…