TravAndAlex
06-09-2004, 09:33 PM
I bought the Advent HT3061A - 30" widescreen model recently. Knowing nothing about the brand and being cautious about the 'bargain' pricing, I've tried to learn as much as I can about the TV. I've been playing with it extensively for the last week and I can answer only some of the issues I have found.
The brightness does not remain constant. Through much playing around and searching of the web, I've found that the TV will automatically compensate for changes in brightness on the screen. Especially noticable in scenes that involve a bright window moving on and off screen, causing faces to darken and lighten very noticably - NOT ACCEPTABLE. Solution - If you turn your contrast down below 15, this will stop. Of course to compensate you will likely need your brightness at approximately 40.
Service Menu: Press (in order, one at a time): SLP, MUTE, AV, MENU. Use the number keys to toggle through the different setup pages. Use Channel -+ to move up and down through the settings. Use Volume -+ to change the settings. Press 0 to exit.
I hope that some folks can help me with the issues I can't fix or figure out:
1. There is noticable horizontal streaking caused by bright text when using the component video inputs (from either my Sony DVD player or Motorola HD PVR digital cable box). Switching to the S-Video input eliminates the bands. This is especially noticable on the blue screen with white writing on DVDs which display: This Motion Picture Has Been Rated... (such as the start of The Lord Of The Rings, or Master and Commander DVDs). The streaks/bands appear to be the inverted color of the bright text: on the blue screen above, the white writing causes darker bands across the width of the TV; on HD broadcasts of the hockey games a bright yellow shape causes a horizontal blue bar across the white of the ice - this is less noticable than the other blue screen. I've seen this issue on other TVs but I can't find a forum discussing it or solution on the web.
2. Static writing such as DVD menus or the internal menu of the DVD/PS2/Cable (through either the component or S-video inputs) jitters occassionally. The jitter appears to be a rapid flicker or very slight and very fast movement of the text/shapes. It can't be seen on a moving picture or on anything that isn't static for multiple seconds on the screen. The TV menu has a VCR on/off setting which is handily described as reducing jitter. Turning it on does make the jitter reduce but does not eliminate it.
A call tonight to Advent customer service yeilded a non enlightening response of "it sounds like you have a conflict with your components. You could see if Future Shop will exchange it". When pressed, the rep said these things should not be happening and are not known issues. Seems odd to have that VCR setting though, eh? ;)
Can anyone help? Suggest a setting in the service menu to adjust? Are these odd issues and it needs to go back?
Help!?!
The brightness does not remain constant. Through much playing around and searching of the web, I've found that the TV will automatically compensate for changes in brightness on the screen. Especially noticable in scenes that involve a bright window moving on and off screen, causing faces to darken and lighten very noticably - NOT ACCEPTABLE. Solution - If you turn your contrast down below 15, this will stop. Of course to compensate you will likely need your brightness at approximately 40.
Service Menu: Press (in order, one at a time): SLP, MUTE, AV, MENU. Use the number keys to toggle through the different setup pages. Use Channel -+ to move up and down through the settings. Use Volume -+ to change the settings. Press 0 to exit.
I hope that some folks can help me with the issues I can't fix or figure out:
1. There is noticable horizontal streaking caused by bright text when using the component video inputs (from either my Sony DVD player or Motorola HD PVR digital cable box). Switching to the S-Video input eliminates the bands. This is especially noticable on the blue screen with white writing on DVDs which display: This Motion Picture Has Been Rated... (such as the start of The Lord Of The Rings, or Master and Commander DVDs). The streaks/bands appear to be the inverted color of the bright text: on the blue screen above, the white writing causes darker bands across the width of the TV; on HD broadcasts of the hockey games a bright yellow shape causes a horizontal blue bar across the white of the ice - this is less noticable than the other blue screen. I've seen this issue on other TVs but I can't find a forum discussing it or solution on the web.
2. Static writing such as DVD menus or the internal menu of the DVD/PS2/Cable (through either the component or S-video inputs) jitters occassionally. The jitter appears to be a rapid flicker or very slight and very fast movement of the text/shapes. It can't be seen on a moving picture or on anything that isn't static for multiple seconds on the screen. The TV menu has a VCR on/off setting which is handily described as reducing jitter. Turning it on does make the jitter reduce but does not eliminate it.
A call tonight to Advent customer service yeilded a non enlightening response of "it sounds like you have a conflict with your components. You could see if Future Shop will exchange it". When pressed, the rep said these things should not be happening and are not known issues. Seems odd to have that VCR setting though, eh? ;)
Can anyone help? Suggest a setting in the service menu to adjust? Are these odd issues and it needs to go back?
Help!?!
