HDNutts2010
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- Dec 22, 2009
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- Scott
So I've been wanting to step up to a 4k LED for a while and finally found what I felt was a good model at a reasonable price. So I picked up a new 75" LG 75UH8500 Super Ultra HD 3D webOS 3.0 Smart TV. that I will be replacing my current TV with which is a 65" Panasonic TC-P65VT60 65-Inch 1080p 600Hz 3D Smart Plasma HDTV. So with having a plasma for a little more than 3 years, I'm a little skeptical that I'm going to see much picture quality improvement with the new LED 4K TV.
So I un-boxed the new LG, hung it on my wall and then went to the net and found some user posted calibration settings. Went back to the TV and made some adjustments and off I went. Using my Time Warner Cisco HD DVR box for watching TV. I watch some of Game 1 of the World Series, watch some news channels, and several other HD channels. Some times the shows looked really good and sometimes not so good. Some shows seemed clear, and others would all the sudden look a bit noisy or to edgy. News channels probably look the worse, while Discovery Ch. and Science Ch. seemed to look really good, all but the area around the channel logo that's located in the lower corner of the screen. That actually seemed to have square'ish looking false images around the letters and image. I know Time Warner is a compressed video signal and that is probably the biggest issues with the quality, but I also decided to load in some Blu-ray's. Blu-ray's seemed to look pretty good on the LG, but I'm not sure they look any better than on my plasma.
When the new LG is displaying a scene that is mostly very dark or black (none of the "black" actually look "Black", but more of a toned dark grey) when something is displayed in the scene such as a light or a person starts walking into the scene, the screen will white washed on the 1/3 side where the object is while the rest of the screen remains relatively dark. This is actually very noticeable and looks kind of bad when it happens. I'm not sure if this is due to the fact that the TV really uses an IPS panel that is LED edge lit or what. I feel I'm going to have to do a side by side test with new and old to see what it really looks like compared to each other.
Any ideas of what to do to improve the picture quality?
Thanks
So I un-boxed the new LG, hung it on my wall and then went to the net and found some user posted calibration settings. Went back to the TV and made some adjustments and off I went. Using my Time Warner Cisco HD DVR box for watching TV. I watch some of Game 1 of the World Series, watch some news channels, and several other HD channels. Some times the shows looked really good and sometimes not so good. Some shows seemed clear, and others would all the sudden look a bit noisy or to edgy. News channels probably look the worse, while Discovery Ch. and Science Ch. seemed to look really good, all but the area around the channel logo that's located in the lower corner of the screen. That actually seemed to have square'ish looking false images around the letters and image. I know Time Warner is a compressed video signal and that is probably the biggest issues with the quality, but I also decided to load in some Blu-ray's. Blu-ray's seemed to look pretty good on the LG, but I'm not sure they look any better than on my plasma.
When the new LG is displaying a scene that is mostly very dark or black (none of the "black" actually look "Black", but more of a toned dark grey) when something is displayed in the scene such as a light or a person starts walking into the scene, the screen will white washed on the 1/3 side where the object is while the rest of the screen remains relatively dark. This is actually very noticeable and looks kind of bad when it happens. I'm not sure if this is due to the fact that the TV really uses an IPS panel that is LED edge lit or what. I feel I'm going to have to do a side by side test with new and old to see what it really looks like compared to each other.
Any ideas of what to do to improve the picture quality?
Thanks