Toshiba TV too sharp? (1 Viewer)

[Christoff]

I just got the 24AF44 for my office. I didn't spend alot of time comparing them, because I will only use it to watch football and basketball games.

All of the images seemed to have false edges to them so I turned the sharpness all the way down, and that didn't help. I hooked up a DVD player and put in Video Essentials. Even with the sharpness at zero, there is still a white edge on that circle pattern.

Also the reds are a little overwhelming when the color is set with that blue film thing.

Am I doing something wrong, or do I need to take it back for a TV closer to my tastes?

 

[NickSo]

Try google and search for a way to turn off Velocity Scan Modulation (VSM, or SVM as its also known as... Scan Velocity Modulation) on your set

 

[Christoff]

Thanks Nick. I've never heard of that SVM thing, but thats appearantly the problem. Other people seem to hate it too.

According to my research I have two options:

1) Open TV case and fiddle with stuff to fix it.

-or-

2) Return TV to Best Buy and get non-crappy TV.

Guess which one I'm gonna do.

 

[Bill Will]

I'm not sure if you set has it but some other Toshiba Tube models Turn "OFF" the SVM when you set it to the "Movie" Mode (Theater Mode? or whatever Toshiba calls it) so you might want to try that & then adjust your settings for that mode.