Sharp LC-32RA1E flickering?

what is about flickering with dvd?

and if you freeze the picture, is it still flickering?

I've to try that tonight and I'll give you the result. My first impression (because I've tried the freezing function) is that the waves continue when frozen. But I'll try again to be sure.

I've tried to freeze the TV image and also tried a DVD (connected through SCART) and to pause the DVD.
The flickering is always there!!! So it apparently doesn't come from my analog cable.

I don't know if it's only an idea but i've the impression it's not on the whole image but only in the unicolor, not moving areas. For example, is someone is speaking on a blue background, the background flickers but the speaker doesn't.

I have an RA1E too and I don't know anybody who has the flickering you mentioned .. I think you should ask the support

I've tried to deactivate simultaneously the Analog TV and the DVD. I even tried to deactivate all my wifi connections and my Hifi (I thought at interferences), but the flickering doesn't want to go away.

My latest chance is with Sharp Support I think, I've sent an email to my reseller to see how I have to do. I hope they'll help me

How is the Sharp Support?

Before bringing the TV back to SHARP, I've tried the following:
I've played the DVD Lord of the rings and pushed PAUSE. I saw the image flickering and when looking nearly at the image, I could see that the pixels in the "flickering area" always move, the image is not still (not ALL the pixels change tone of colour (become light blue and then dark blue again and so on), only some of them)! Is that normal on a LCD??

i tried it just a moment ago and i am not able to see something like that ...

so i dont think that it's normal...

Ok thanks for your test, I'll send the TV back to sharp

hi raph,

ja, jetzt ist alles gut bei mir.

ich habe in dem shop ein neues gerät erhalten.

ich bin kein techniker, ich denke aber, dass eine art dimmer in dem gerät eingebaut ist. dieser scheint das flickern zu verursachen.

never mind, wird schon alles gut gehen...

gruß olaf

For those who have the same problem as I described. I've sent my TV back to Sharp and they repaired it.
They told me it was a problem coming from a "platine". I have no idea what it is but the TV is now working.

great ... sharp support works , huh ?

Huh...
I spoke a little bit to early! The problem didn't disappear!!!
What happened is that sharp support did change a component (platine??) in the TV and then tested it with factory settings. The backlight was set to it's highest value and in this case the problem doesn't appear...
I had to call back sharp and now I've to send them the TV a second time. I hope they'll test it right this time!

So I'm not so happy of the efficiency of sharp support, but at least they're nice when you contact them.

eventually you should try other settings ...

here is one setting working fine in germany

hintergrundbel. 0
kontrast +30
helligkeit +6
farbe +10
farbtönung 0
schärfe +2
farbtemp. normal
schwarzwert aus!
schwarz weiss aus
filmmodus an!
trud ein
I/P modus zeilensprung wenn über Scart 576i!

Rauschunterdrückung gering
Schnellbild ein
OPC aus

sorry that this is in germany ..

Thanks, but I do have almost the same settings as yours.

The problem comes frome backlight (hintergrundbeleuchtung) when it's value is set lower than the maximum. It means that with the "hintergrundbeleuchtung" value set to 0 I have the flickering effect.

I've tried many settings and finally concluded it comes from the backlight.

The only problem is that sharp did try the TV only with backlight set to it's maximum value... In this case everything is ok!

Note to Hillox: I can understand german but I'm bad at writing it! French would be even better than english

never learned french , so lets talk english

well you should ask the support again .. flickering is not normal !

Yep I've sent my tv back to sharp this morning.

I'll keep you informed on the next episode

This time I've wroten that they have to call me before sending the tv back to me, so I can know what they've repaired or changed... I don't want to be in the same situation again!

Sharp called me yesterday. They told me they saw the problem with the parameters I gave them (the same in the precedent Hillox message).
They also tested these parameters on another new LC-32RA1E and a 32GA9E. Both of them had also the problem, so he concluded that it's a problem present in all sharp tvs...

It's really hard to believe!! I don't know what to do now!