Ghosting on faces

[SteveR750]

I've got a new Samsung 32" conncted to a Toshiba XD500 DVD player. The picture quality to me seems mostly great - nice and sharp, but faces seem to "ghost", in they appear to become detached and lag behind the movement of the head. It's really annoying, something which I never noticed with my (4 yrs) old sammy 26" and simple Panasonic DVD player. Is it the TV or the DVD player? I cant compare to TV as I cannot receive off air / digital broadcasts.

 

[aliEnRIK]

Sounds like your tv to me. probably got some 'processing' effect switched on thats causing it (Digital noise reduction, contrast enhance or whatever)

 

[SteveR750]

Thanks Rik, I'll try turning all of the processing bits to off , but its not subtle....

 

[aliEnRIK]

If I switch my pioneers DNR to HIGH I get the exact same effect (But I have everything switched off anyways)

 

[SteveR750]

Yep, it seems to be the DNR - when OFF its no longer apparent, not sure its completely gone but its certainly not distracting. So what's the point in a DNR if it messes the picture up so much?

 

[aliEnRIK]

Because people love all these fancy 'screen modes' on tvs. My pioneer has a stupid amount of them (ALL off)

DNR can be useful if the picture is full of 'noise' ~ otherwise its next to useless (Like most 'digital processing' modes)