Picture distortion (Thomson 28VK24)

Name: andynet

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Product:	Thomson 28VK24
Date:	12.11.02 (229 review reads)
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Advantages: Clear picture, Good sound

Disadvantages: Picture distortion when playing DVDs (see opinion), Occasional purity problems

I own a Thomson 28VK25US widescreen TV (sorry, couldn't work out how to add a new product).

I'm currently experiencing picture distortions when playing DVDs. What happens is when I play a DVD containing a scene involving rapid flashes of light e.g. explosions, lightning, etc, the picture distorts and rolls for a second but then returns back to normal. This even happens in super-slow motion! This is very annoying when watching movies containing a lot of these scenes e.g. any of the Batman movies, Star Wars and basically any type of "shoot-em-up" movie.

You may be thinking that the problem lies with the DVD player or SCART lead but I've tried 4 different models of DVD player and 3 different SCART leads and they all do the same thing. I also found a chat group on the Internet where other people have been experiencing the same problem with the same model of TV. When I contacted Thomson about this they assured me that it was not a problem with this model of their TVs.

I got Mastercare (Currys) to take a look at it and they took the TV away for 3 weeks. When I got it back, nothing had changed so apparently they can't fix it either.

So my advice to anyone thinking about buying a Thomson TV is this: take the TV home, connect it up to your DVD Player and watch a DVD containing scenes like I described above - Batman Returns and The Phanton Mentace are particularly bad. If picture distortion happens, then return the TV immediately and get another make.

If you don't plan to use a DVD player with the TV then there are no problems at all. The picture is clear and the sound is great.

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