Samsung LCD TV makes films look like reality TV

[JulianHJ]

I've not got a flat screen telly, I'm still on an old CRT. I've popped round to my parents' today and whilst looking though the HD channels and watching a film (The Insider) on Netflix a lot of the material looks like a cheap soap opera, or reality TV.

Is this purely because I'm not used to HD, or is there likely to be a settings issue to make it look a little better?

[marctwo]

Films are usually 24 frames per second. The TV is adding extra frames to make it into a higher frame rate. This makes the motion look 'smoother' but it also takes away the film look. It may also be over-sharpened.

Go into the menu settings and turn it all off.

[NewNameNeeded]

Netflix can also lower the quality of the video due to slower internet connection, so make sure that's not the reason the quality looked poor.

Having said that there have been discussions in the past about CRT vs. flatscreen and it all gets a bit heated but I still stand by the fact my 32" Sony CRT had a better picture quality than most cheaper flatscreen TVs.

[marctwo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_dE6HPIAJM

[cay]

I had exactly the same reaction when we got our 8000 series Samsung.

Turn down ( or off ) the Blur reduction and Judder reduction settings.

If you set them to high it makes everything look fake / odd.

Now I have the settings correct the picture is superb.

[JulianHJ]

Cheers. It's not an internet issue as Speedtest states is ~60Mb downstream (VM fibre).

I'll have a play around with the settings, cheers!

[legzr1]

NewNameNeeded said:

but I still stand by the fact my 32" Sony CRT had a better picture quality than most cheaper flatscreen TVs.

For standard SD it probably does better but how does it look when fed a 1080P/24 signal from a decent BR disc?

Oh...

[NewNameNeeded]

legzr1 said:

For standard SD it probably does better but how does it look when fed a 1080P/24 signal from a decent BR disc?

Oh...

Lol. And a damn sight smaller than my 65vt65

[hornetrider]

st TV is st, hold the front page.

[OldSkoolRS]

hornetrider said:

st TV is st, hold the front page.

I saw a 'home cinema' display at Goodwood FOS this year; the TV was a B&O set which I imagine wasn't cheap. They showed a clip of Bullet and it looked like a documentary, I thought it looked awful. The motion just seemed odd and it was almost too sharp, yet some there were saying how amazing it looked.

I guess they set some TVs up to appeal to those buyers, but it's by no means restricted to cheaper brands...

[JulianHJ]

hornetrider said:

st TV is st, hold the front page.

Well, that's a matter of opinion. It's a fairly recent purchase towards the top end of Samsung's range, and received good reviews from what I've read. Granted it's no Kuro, but I'm not sure 'St is accurate either.