Samsung LED TV - Like watching daytime soaps?
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Guys
This may sound a bit odd however bear with me.
I have an old Hitachi 42in Plasma. HD ready and working fine, picture quality is great etc.
I went round to my mates house and he has a new 46in Samsung HD TV, with motion sensor etc built in. We watched Skyfall on Blu-ray and whilst it was incredibly clear and bright, my overall impression was that it was a bit too clear, a bit too bright? It made the whole movie look like an episode of days of our lives if you take my meaning? Same with just regular TV.
Assuming you get what I am on about, is this a function of the TV settings or a 'feature' of HD TV and Blue Ray itself?
To be honest, I preferred coming home to the picture on my old Hitachi...
This may sound a bit odd however bear with me.
I have an old Hitachi 42in Plasma. HD ready and working fine, picture quality is great etc.
I went round to my mates house and he has a new 46in Samsung HD TV, with motion sensor etc built in. We watched Skyfall on Blu-ray and whilst it was incredibly clear and bright, my overall impression was that it was a bit too clear, a bit too bright? It made the whole movie look like an episode of days of our lives if you take my meaning? Same with just regular TV.
Assuming you get what I am on about, is this a function of the TV settings or a 'feature' of HD TV and Blue Ray itself?
To be honest, I preferred coming home to the picture on my old Hitachi...
I know what you are talking about because I've seen it on my TV and turned it off. It's some kind of motion smoothing. Basically, many films are 24 fps (frames per second). Some TVs have a function that artifically inserts additional frames between the real ones to make the motion smoother. However, the effect is that films no longer look like film, and look more like video. I personally hate it.
I think I have a similar Sammy TV, 7000 series. You aren't seeing things with the motion sensor type settings on everything looks a bit strange.
Just simply turn it off and normal service is resumed. Head to John Lewis and go and mess with the settings on one and you will see what I mean.
Just simply turn it off and normal service is resumed. Head to John Lewis and go and mess with the settings on one and you will see what I mean.
For some reason, they come from the factory with the motion smooting enabled and all of the colour and brightness settings turned up to the max.
I always turn the motion off and reduce the settings to a mouch lower level, especially the backlight as it tends to be quite uneven on these sets so is distracting on drak scenes if set high.
The motion smoothing is useful for wathcing feeds like Netflix that can be really jerky without it, but for most things it is best kept off.
I always turn the motion off and reduce the settings to a mouch lower level, especially the backlight as it tends to be quite uneven on these sets so is distracting on drak scenes if set high.
The motion smoothing is useful for wathcing feeds like Netflix that can be really jerky without it, but for most things it is best kept off.
kingston12 said:
For some reason, they come from the factory with the motion smooting enabled and all of the colour and brightness settings turned up to the max.
Most TVs do this so when the demo units are unpacked and put in the window of a Curry's superstore, they look bright and vibrant in bright daylight.Gassing Station | Home Cinema & Hi-Fi | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff