Swisscom TV 2.0 very poor image quality
dear community
Today the new TV box (the white one) was delivered to my house and I connected it straight away using the new HDMI cable that came with it. Luckily I hadn’t yet bagged the (old) black TV box for return shipping, really lucky. I have a very expensive SONY Full HD television, less than three years old, with HDMI ports.
Now to the problem. When I connected the new BOX and thought I would be able to enjoy better picture quality, I was bitterly, very bitterly disappointed. It immediately caught my eye, this distorted image. Image noise on every channel, whether HD or SD. The colors were suddenly very pale and sick, completely unnatural. Instead of a rich, beautiful, warm yellow, I suddenly had a bright, unnatural yellow, like a highlighter pen. Uf good German “just name it Gschlerk”. The picture didn’t run smoothly either. Coincidentally, I just had an animal show starting. Then I just reached for my head. The newscaster on another station looked kind of blue, like he had no broadcast. Red was no longer shown as really red, but rather a sickening, unsightly red. Just name Pfui. The best thing is that everything suddenly shimmers so brightly blue on every channel. That wasn’t TV enjoyment.
When I reconnected the (old) black BOX, I was relieved of all the problems mentioned above.
I can imagine that a lot of cheap junk was used in this white BOX. I just wonder why people do this to their loyal customers. The black BOX is much higher quality and therefore delivers a high-quality image. In addition, the new BOX only delivers 1080p and cannot deliver the usual FULL HD standard of 1080i and that may be exactly the problem. My ancient TV, now no less than three years old, lol, is trying to downscale this poor signal (data decoder and DSP) from the white TV box to its standard. It’s hilarious.
Everything is going well again with the (old) box and I’m happy again. 1080p is a joke when most FULL HD TVs are optimized for HDMI 1080i. So it’s a craft, this ugly white box. I don’t know what some technicians think. Do you know the advertisement about the old knight who hits his sword on the white TV box? That fits this product exactly. Actually, I knew, or at least suspected, that this little box was total junk. So my suspicion was confirmed.
I always thought Swisscom stood for the highest quality in our country. As the best company ever. That now comes into question. Swisscom needs to get on the books as quickly as possible. And then, why do you need UHD when at the moment most channels, let’s say all of them, only deliver FULL HD or even 720p. So no further development in the interests of the customer. The TV manufacturers have optimized the technology to 1080i and now this white box comes along and literally spits in their soup.
And I won’t force myself to have a frustrating viewing experience in the future. So the elegant black BOX remains on my TV.
Kind regards to everyone
