I recently bought a 46" Samsung 8000 LED LCD tv. I previously watched a 3 year old 42" Pioneer Elite plasma.
I'm very impressed with the Samsung, save for two major problems: light leakage and a wierd video effect that can't be disabled. All HD sources look like your watching a daytime soap opera, like "Days of Our Lives", especially when the camera pans. It did this to regular DVDs, Blu-Ray, and HD television off cable. The result -for me- is that the show/movie looks artificial. It almost looks like everything was filmed against a blue screen and all the backgrounds, props, etc were added afterwards. Like they filmed ONLY the actors with nothing else.
If you go to hdguru.com, you can see the best explanation I have found so far in their review of the samsung B8000 LED tv :
The “Judder Reduction” control makes pans appear smoother. The trade-off was that film-based material appears more like “live video” with a smoother texture as the control setting is increased, as if the film grain has been reduced or nearly eliminated. Comparing the 8000 against our reference Pioneer Pro-141FD confirmed the video-like look, noticeable even when the control is set to “Off”! Some viewers like the improved smoothness while others (including myself) don’t. The best compromise was with the control set to position “1″.
In my opinion, this effect really kills it. All the sources i watched looked wrong, except for animation.
So here's the question - is this a Samsung "feature", or is this common to all modern LCD televisions? I'm not satisfied with this effect, but the rest of the TV is marvelous! So, i need an alternative.
I'm very impressed with the Samsung, save for two major problems: light leakage and a wierd video effect that can't be disabled. All HD sources look like your watching a daytime soap opera, like "Days of Our Lives", especially when the camera pans. It did this to regular DVDs, Blu-Ray, and HD television off cable. The result -for me- is that the show/movie looks artificial. It almost looks like everything was filmed against a blue screen and all the backgrounds, props, etc were added afterwards. Like they filmed ONLY the actors with nothing else.
If you go to hdguru.com, you can see the best explanation I have found so far in their review of the samsung B8000 LED tv :
The “Judder Reduction” control makes pans appear smoother. The trade-off was that film-based material appears more like “live video” with a smoother texture as the control setting is increased, as if the film grain has been reduced or nearly eliminated. Comparing the 8000 against our reference Pioneer Pro-141FD confirmed the video-like look, noticeable even when the control is set to “Off”! Some viewers like the improved smoothness while others (including myself) don’t. The best compromise was with the control set to position “1″.
In my opinion, this effect really kills it. All the sources i watched looked wrong, except for animation.
So here's the question - is this a Samsung "feature", or is this common to all modern LCD televisions? I'm not satisfied with this effect, but the rest of the TV is marvelous! So, i need an alternative.
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