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Just make sure to turnoff digital noise reduction if that is the factory setting. That goes for all hd tvs
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Just make sure to turnoff digital noise reduction if that is the factory setting. That goes for all hd tvs
Great point, Bruce. I somehow had it turned on when our technophile friend came to see it, and was roundly (and rightly) mocked.
I feel inspired to write a poem about your mockery
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I feel inspired to write a poem about your mockery
I've written it:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
But you wouldn't know that,
Because you're too busy nagging me about my fucking TV settings. Asshole. Go smell a rose.
You're welcome.
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Jan 7, 2018 - 3:53 PM
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Rameau
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My sister & brother-in-law bought an expensive Sony 4k TV last year, I was there over Christmas & my god it looks awful. They're two very intelligent people, but they haven't got a clue (& are not interested) when it comes to a TV picture & I was under strict instructions not to touch it. It's as it came, everything turned up to 11, no greyscale & any dark areas are crushed to buggery, I just couldn't watch it. I used to be a telecine colourist, just give me half an hour with it, but no, "we're happy, we think it looks great" & they have Sky & more often than not watch an SD program rather find the HD (BBC SD being at the top of the list, so that always gets watched). Bloody hell, but I'm thinking they're in the majority.
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God help you if you mess with someone's hd tv that they think "looks great".
Lol!
Sometimes i try telling them "It looks good. I can make it look even better, ".
Brm
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My old HD LCD 37 inch died late last year – and I had a one-time influx of cash so I upgraded to an LG OLED 3D 4K/UHD 55” set, and an OPPO 4k player. It has been an interesting experience. My viewing area makes a hash of the 3D – I am a few feet too close to the TV so cross talk impinges on the 3D image (I’ve thrashed around the room to see if being too close to the TV was the problem, and indeed it was because the cross talk goes away at about 6 feet distance). The OPPO does an amazing job at upconverting old DVDs and newer Blurays – everything 2D looks better. Even my old laser discs looks better on the TV. The difference between HD and UHD can be confounding – and comparisons are often difficult to make because HDR10 and HDR Dolby Vision have separate and distinct presets that automatically engage on the TV and add significant anomalies to the image quality. All of the presets, in addition, can be tweaked and are user-friendly. For example, comparing the regular bluray of “Ghost in the Shell” with the 4K HDR10 disc, and then streaming the same film using HDR Dolby Vision from VUDU is illuminating. The regular bluray looks stunning. Some improved brightness, black image replication, contrasts, deeper colors, and increased sharpness are noticeable on the HDR10 disc, but then other areas of the image quality pop in different ways on the streaming HDR Dolby Vision VUDU version. There are also so many and various settings that can be engaged on the TV that you can spend literally hours futzing with the picture quality until you can’t tell Standard from Bright from Game from Vivid. And that’s only in HDR Dolby Vision (HDR10 has a different set of image presets, as does standard HD). As far as I know there is no readily available home calibration 4K disc, but in any event, I’ve been having a blast with the technology. Most of the time I can see a noticeable, positive, difference between the standard HD and the UHD image. Streaming, of course, adds in fluctuations and occasional lagging/judder, so perhaps those comparisons are unfair. There are times when the image quality is simply jaw dropping in ways that regular blurays can’t touch. There was a controversial forced upgrade by LG to the TV that caused changes in all of the 4K presets – for example the “Game” settings became darker – but I have been able to still tweak the image to what I feel are “good” settings for me personally and for my viewing room.
One cautionary note about my LG OLED (I have the curved 55C6P): I have watched a great deal of content using the YouTube app that came with the TV. The app has been upgraded various times by the TV itself. The app as designed has two small boxes, yellow and green, that are almost always displayed in the lower right hand corner of the app. The boxes only go away when you play a video full screen – but again pop into the display, for example, if you pause or fast forward the video. Those two yellow and green boxes have caused what appears to be a permanent burn in on the screen. This has apparently happened to lots and lots of LG OLED owners (it is a staple of discussion on video forums) – I wish I had been aware of the problem earlier so that I could have changed the frequency and method of my YouTube viewings, etc. I’ve run the “Panel Noise” feature built into the TV that is supposed to help eliminate image retention – but it hasn’t worked. An email to LG resulted in a response that it was the fault of my viewing habits and not the built in YouTube app, which was nonsense as no other apps (Netflix, Amazon, VUDU, Crackle, etc.) have caused me any grief.
So beware the App of YouTube!
Favorite discs are "Planet Earth II", the new Italian 4K Disc of "Suspiria", "Ghost in the Shell", "The Life of Pi", and, believe it or not, "Gods of Egypt."
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