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Posted on Jan 26, 2009

Plasma TV moving black and white lines

I just bought a Vizio 50" Plasma TV. On some channels SD and HD theres moving black and white lines at the top of the TV. Its really annoning when watching TV. Does anyone know what this could be. Should I return it?? Its not on all channels though, thank you

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This is a result of poor conversion of a SD signal on a HD channel.  Go into your settings and adjust the h/v settings to move the line off the screen.  You can do this with a combination of v-position or vsize.  

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