scrolling text is not smooth

[harro123]

Hey all,

I am shopping for a TV and have been comparing Plasma and LCD side by side. I notice that on the plasma's the scrolling text (eg; news headlines across the bottom of the screen) does not progress smoothly but in tiny increments. Movies credits behave the same way.
This does not appear to happen on LCD's.

Why? I thought plasma's were less prone to motion blur etc....


Harro

 

[jostenmeat]

Hmm. The LCDs might have had the FI (frame interpolation) as on, maybe even on maximum setting.

If I set my bluray player to output at 1080/60, the judder on rolling credits is easily discernible. Once at 24p, quite smooth to me. (My PJ does not apply 3:2 to film sources).

As for the news, that would be 1080/60, and so I don't know what to say. I've never seen a plasma with FI, but in all honesty, they don't need it.

LCDs do pretty horribly with "motion resolution" compared to plasma, except when FI is engaged, then it gets pretty close to your average plasma, if still only half the motion rez of the top of the line stuff, such as Pio, maybe even the current hi-end Panas.

The problem with FI is that it's generally thought to be inappropriate for film. It is more likely to be desired with video games, sports, etc. Personally, I've never seen FI that I've liked, but I'm sure there are better implementations that I have to see.

 

[Serj22]

Where are you looking at these? When I worked for a big box, they used to "set up" the cheaper flat panels by specifically changing the color options to funky values and making the brightness all weird and making it look bad overall, so that the more expensive LCD or Plasma next to it would look 100X better. I've never noticed that frame change on a regular plasma, have you noticed this on all you have come across?

 

[harro123]

Thanks,

I am in Australia and I was looking at TV's in JB HI Fi. A large chain store. The plasma I was viewing was the new Panasonic TH-P46G10A. A very good TV by all accounts. I also noticed the same effect on plasma notice board display in a supermarket. The scrolling text was moving in little jumps and certainly not smooth.

 

[clouso]

Thanks,

I am in Australia and I was looking at TV's in JB HI Fi. A large chain store. The plasma I was viewing was the new Panasonic TH-P46G10A. A very good TV by all accounts. I also noticed the same effect on plasma notice board display in a supermarket. The scrolling text was moving in little jumps and certainly not smooth.

They only set the plasmas to look worst then lcd's...i have never seen any plasma having that issue...really i dont know what to tell you..the g10 doesnt have any problem with FI.