Pixelation in Panasonic Plasmas

It should reveal if its in the set or the feed.

I have owned my 811 for a year with my 65" Sony Hi-Def t.v. I got this unit for $49.00 installed and dish gave me a $49.00 credit The only thing I had to buy was a d.v.i. cable I pay $44.00 per month for basic the hi-daf package and VOOM Also this box has a over the air hi-def tuner so I thru up a cheap outside antenna and its awsome I receive 9 hi-def stations here in the bay area . If you want to get a stunning picture You must get the proper equipment and use the best imput which is d.v.i. or h.d.m.i I also bought a new denon 2910 only because it had a d.v.i. output and a GIFFEN switcher so I can switch between d.v.d. and my sat. box so my d.v.d and satellite look beautiful GOOD LUCK WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU cadillacstew@aol.com

almost all fixed pixel tv's such as plasma, lcd, and dlp suffer from pixelation. They basically have a lag on interlaced broadcasts. Since you are watching a basic 480I interlaced broadcast from Dish you will get a little pixelation. A progressive broadcast should be much smoother and only slight pixelation will be noticable if any. Put in a DVD and set the progressive scan on the dvd player and see if that helps and also if you have a panasonic plasma you should have a built in tuner so hook up and antenna and find a 720P broadcast and see if that doesn't help and your picture should be great with it as well.

Hi everyone. I also have a Panasonic TH-42PX50U and on HD channels I have the pixelation problem when there is fast action or a moving image that is close to the screen.

Using Componet Video and a DVR recorder. What cause this and is it a refresh rate problem? I do not have this problem when using my DVD player only on HD channels.

Other wise this TV has a great picture!

thanks in advance for any advise or help.

Panasonic tends to max out their sharpness and brightness for out of the box settings. Try customizing the settings. Turn the sharpness down, and adjust the brightness down a tad. The problem with the panny's is that sometimes the 13-bit processor overdetails. If you're not feeding it detail, it will detail the noise in the screen, which just gives you a headache. Or, you could completely void your warranty and mod the processor with a 10-bit, like a buddy of mine did. The picture's improved, but he is right screwed if a defect pops up in the plasma.

Your set up between the box and plasma. In the sat menu, make sure you are set up for 16X9 TV, and if high def, make sure any settings for that are done. Not sure about this model panasonic, but most have various "aspect" modes, on the pannies I have done, one of them is called "just", this or normal should be the aspect setting, the moment you go to a zoom or fill type of setting you are asking the plasma to stretch and slightly distort the picture, it also requires the TV to digitally deal with the incoming picture, thus the digital artifacts. If all this has been set up properly, then as many posts above state, it's likely the source. Digital satellite uses compression (a lot of it)and on many channels can cause what you are seeing. I also would have to ask, how close are you sitting to your plasma? When up close this is something you might see in most consumer sets out there, but seated the right distance it shouldn't be so obvious as to be annoying.