Panasonic CT-20D12D 20" TV
Slight hiccup with digital cable
The picture is sharp and the colors vibrant, when the brightness behaves that is (I'll explain in a minute). I don't really hear the stereo quality like stereo separation or bass, maybe the the speakers are too small or too close together or something? It's hooked up to a digital cable box through the coaxial jack, do any techies know if coaxial is only mono?<br /> Now about that brightness problem...<br /> Less than amazing sound aside, I would have gave it 5 stars if the picture didn't have this annoying brightness fluctuation when turning on the set 80% of the time. The whole picture fades normal-dark-normal-dark, pulsing at a rate of half a second, really resembling those old movie projectors. This smooth flicker is most noticeable in the dark areas of the picture.<br /> This rhythmic brightness problem only occurs when watching cable (Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2100 box). It doesn't occur when watching videos on the VCR or playing videogames. So it might be an incompatibility with digital cable. I had this cable box hooked up to an old Emerson TV previously, and it displayed the picture fine. My other boxes are attached to Zenith and JVC sets and have no problems.<br /> Turning the TV off and then on again, gets rid of most of this pulsing effect when it's real bad, but you can always notice a trace of flicker in black or dark areas of the picture.<br /> They should stop it with the \\"2-line digital comb filter\\", \\"black picture tube\\" features ect. Keep it simple, the less there is, the less that can go wrong or conflict with something. : P