Samsung Series 6 question.

bretttp1

Hi all, I’m looking at getting this series 6 Samsung TV, it's had some pretty good reviews as far as I can see.

So first of all what are the general opinions on this TV.

But mainly I was wondering about the digital tuner, what should I be looking for in an inbuilt digital tuner that will be compatible with Irish broadcasting when they go digital?

Kashkai

I received the 46in version of the samsung series 6 last week. I was like a kid looking forward to christmas while waiting for this tv to show up. Like you, I had read nothing but good reviews about the series 6. After a week of owning this tv, my advice is to avoid at all costs.

1. The picture is complete sh!te. Ordainary dvds are grainy and washed out in appearence no matter what setting you use.

2. Blu rays suffer from blotchy blacks

3. There's a lot of motion blur, i.e. anything moving at more than a slow walk will cause the picture to break up around the moving object.

4. There's a multitude of picture options but they do nothing to clear up the awful display. In some cases, they actually make it worse.

I have 3 other tvs in the house, a 21in and 32in crts and a 26in samsung lcd all of which have far superior pictures to the much vaunted series 6 model. I'm so disgusted at buying this tv that I unhooked it last night and reconnected my 26in (720p) samsung and immediately noticed a vast improvement in picture quality. If you want, I'd sell it at what I paid for it (€1,400) if you really want one of these series 6 tvs.

bucks73

What TV source were you using Dave? I was thinking of getting the 40 incher myself.

Kashkai

I was using a ps3 for playback of dvds and blu rays. Very very very disappointed with this tv. Don't know if I'm missing out on the correct setting for the tv or the ps3 or worst of all, if the tv is a dud. I don't have SKY connected at the mo so don't know what that would look like.

I've just printed off some recommended settings for the tv and the ps3. Will give these a go tonight and report back tomorrow.

bucks73

I was reading your other thread also and had a look at the avforums link someone posted. Certianly doesnt give confidence in them but I presume a NTL/SD Sky pic is going to look poorer on a 46 inch set than on a 26 inch LCD or 32 inch CRT but certianly not as bad as what youre getting.

bretttp1

Bloody hell prosperous Dave, I’m very disappointed to hear about your experience with the 46” Samsung.

I wonder if the problems you’ve had have anything to do specifically with the 46” version or is there some thing wrong with the panel. Also the set up of these TV’s is critical to quality, but I still don’t think you should have had those sorts of issues with the factory settings.:eek:

Did you get to look at the picture before you bought? It’s just that I had a look at the 40” in curry’s and I thought it looked pretty good.

But you’ve sown the seeds of doubt in my mind about this one I hear this Sony is also meant to be pretty good.

Kashkai

I went home last night and spent a while inputting the recommended settings (that I printed off from some online magazine) and to be fair, the picture quality was vastly improved over what it was. Blu ray playback has lost the artifacts and the blotchy blacks on Casino Royale. I believe this was down to not only the revised colour and contrast settings but also to tunring off the much vaunted 100hz refesh rate technology. This last bit actually makes movies worse not better. The colours still seem a little washed out but perhaps they are more life like than the overblown colours on high def demos on lcds in shops.

The dvd upscaling was also vastly improved and 90% of the graininess is now gone.

What strikes me is why did Samsung release a tv with standard settings that are completly appalling. I made some radical changes to the colours, contrast etc last night while following the advice of the magazine that I had printed off. I'd never have come up with these settings in a million years myself. If some techno heads in an online magazine can come up with decent settings, then why can't the manufacturer? I'm still not 100% happy with the picture quality so I might keep on tweaking it but I'm not foaming at the mouth like I was yesterday and the 46in Samsung has been granted a reprieve from being used as a coffee table.

ongarite

They do this because ordinary consumer thinks what image should look like and what proper calibrated image looks like are vastly different.
LCDs out of the box are on super high brightness and contrast because uniformed consumers think this looks great, look how bright it is, colours are so vivid, etc....

spooner_src

Hi All

I got my 40in last week and had my homework done on it, i was going for the 46in but since my viewing distance is not far enough away the 40in is perfect for me.

The standard settings out of the box yes are a personal taste if you like it but most dont.

The best thing is to fiddle with the settings that you can find in lots of places like avforums.co.uk (there is a thread for series 6 settings) and on hdtvtest.co.uk they have a review and settings.

The thing is though with all the different inputs its hard to get the balance right.

but certainly i have no regrets as each tv channel is broadcasting shows in different ways so for some channels a setting looks brill and on another channel it sucks (i am talk SKY SD).

But for gaming and blu ray its really fab, even watching SD sky movies is very pleasing to the eye.

good luck

bucks73

Cheers for that Spooner. Did you get the 40" version of the Series 6?

bretttp1

Thanks for all the info guys,
I think its down to these two that I'm going to pick from, but does anyone know if the digital tuner on the Samsung series 6 or the sony KDL-40W4000 will be compatible with Irish digital broadcasting when it arrives?

molloyjh

Ì got Samsungs LE40M87BD a while ago and was well impressed with the pic quality, although it did take a bit of tweaking to get it right (avforums again!). On this model you can set the picture settings individually for each input rather than the TV as a whole so you don't need to balance anything. I would have thought you could do the same on the series 6? Yes/No?

spooner_src

bucks73 wrote: »

Cheers for that Spooner. Did you get the 40" version of the Series 6?

Hey Bucks

Yes it was a series 6 that I got, playing metal gear solid 4 on it is a truly magical experience.

bretttp1

spooner_src wrote: »

Hey Bucks

Yes it was a series 6 that I got, playing metal gear solid 4 on it is a truly magical experience.

Was it the 40" you got ?

Isaacunt

I have mine about a year and a half and it was a deadly buy, its just ****y that the whole TV industry is moving so fast. At the time when I got mine (series 6) it was nearly the best thing out there for the price I was paying, now you have so many different types and stuff, no matter what you buy it never seems good enough. Once you find the proper settings, I have to say it was and still is a brialliant TV.

silvine

I am after getting a Series 6. What settings are people here using? I used one I got off CNET but it looked terrible.

gismoman

hi all have my series 6 for a year or more now and like it a lot but one issue trying get digital rte on and have sound only and HD not supported message ,understand that rte are broadcasting on mp4 format,so does that mean the i need to upgrade the software or buy a €100 converter to view digital with picture any ideas/answers would be great.