Blu-Ray / HD TV Weirdness
Discussion
All - First things first - we don’t watch much tv. We’re not very home tech-savvy either.
For Christmas, I got the family an LG tv (49” 8600 PLA) to replace our existing, minuscule Samsung thing from about 10 years ago. Also got some Blu-Ray discs to play through the PS4.
The TV itself is...awesome, different world etc. but I’m not convinced about the image quality of the Blu-Ray stuff. We watched Avengers Endgame today (previously saw it on iMax). The faces of the actors were amazingly sharp, likewise the CGI stuff, but I couldn’t get away from how odd some non-CGI stuff in and around most of the scenes looked. For example, cars (That the actors had just got out of), laptops, furniture etc, all looked almost like they had been added later, or like when you over-enhance a photo in Lightroom. It all looked very artificial. Some of the outdoor scenes (countryside) again showed great detail on, say, a log cabin, but the adjacent trees (while obviously ‘real’, looked terrible. Almost like only the main focus of attention in the scenes were HD and the rest was intentionally worse than standard.
I then had a brief look at the recent Apollo 11 film in Blu-Ray. Obviously it’s old footage to start with, but again there were very odd effects in the opening sequences I looked at - some details were washed out, and background figures looked like separate, over processed features moving around - like a bad attempt at 3D. Some of the main moving parts of the Saturn V transport crawler (the tracks), looked like an Anime creation. Again, much worse than it looked in iMax at the cinema.
Is there some obvious setting I’ve missed, or am I just not used to to modern TV images yet?
For Christmas, I got the family an LG tv (49” 8600 PLA) to replace our existing, minuscule Samsung thing from about 10 years ago. Also got some Blu-Ray discs to play through the PS4.
The TV itself is...awesome, different world etc. but I’m not convinced about the image quality of the Blu-Ray stuff. We watched Avengers Endgame today (previously saw it on iMax). The faces of the actors were amazingly sharp, likewise the CGI stuff, but I couldn’t get away from how odd some non-CGI stuff in and around most of the scenes looked. For example, cars (That the actors had just got out of), laptops, furniture etc, all looked almost like they had been added later, or like when you over-enhance a photo in Lightroom. It all looked very artificial. Some of the outdoor scenes (countryside) again showed great detail on, say, a log cabin, but the adjacent trees (while obviously ‘real’, looked terrible. Almost like only the main focus of attention in the scenes were HD and the rest was intentionally worse than standard.
I then had a brief look at the recent Apollo 11 film in Blu-Ray. Obviously it’s old footage to start with, but again there were very odd effects in the opening sequences I looked at - some details were washed out, and background figures looked like separate, over processed features moving around - like a bad attempt at 3D. Some of the main moving parts of the Saturn V transport crawler (the tracks), looked like an Anime creation. Again, much worse than it looked in iMax at the cinema.
Is there some obvious setting I’ve missed, or am I just not used to to modern TV images yet?
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/sm8600/settin...
Most of the setting will need a tweek to get that best out of the set.
Try the above link
Most of the setting will need a tweek to get that best out of the set.
Try the above link
mgv8 said:
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/lg/sm8600/settin...
Most of the setting will need a tweek to get that best out of the set.
Try the above link
So is it mainly brightness/HDR that can be adjusted? Can’t see much on sharpness - and only that “super resolution” should be off. I was thinking the issue I’m having would be the equivalent to over-sharpening of de-focussed images that was the issue.Most of the setting will need a tweek to get that best out of the set.
Try the above link
Cheers!
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