4K tv has terrible picture please help (1 Viewer)

[Gsal9296]

hey guys so I need some help, so I bought the Samsung 65 inch MU8500, and I bought a $200 4K Sony blue ray player, I first watched Thor ragnarok and it looked pretty good, still felt some scenes didn’t look very clear when they were showing them from a distance, so I went online to see which tv setting other people used, which was picture mode movie and so on, but the setting these “experts” recommended made the tv look so dull and without vibrant colors, so I left the settings back to original, and then I watched Star Wars the last Jedi and it looked so terrible, people was very grainy, and picture wasn’t clear it looked terrible, I also watched justice league and same picture was grainy and it wasn’t clear at all, can some one please help me

 

[Neil Middlemiss]

What HDMI cable are you using?

 

[Gsal9296]

What HDMI cable are you using?

HDMI 2.0 I bought one at Best Buy which said supported 4K and hdr

 

[Neil Middlemiss]

I snagged this from another thread as I am about to go 4K, but it could be related to your issue:

 

[Gsal9296]

I snagged this from another thread as I am about to go 4K, but it could be related to your issue:
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Thank you my friend, I will definitely try that out.

 

[PMF]

Yup, that "Premium Certified" Logo should become mandatory knowledge to all;
especially to those less fortunate who have no inkling on the differences between a Geek Rep and our HTF circle.
My thanks to dpippel, Neil Middlemiss and all those who keep passing this around.

P.S. What is it that makes these cables different than the others? And why aren't the others offering the same? Certainly, this can only help the 4K movemet. Right?

 

[John Dirk]

hey guys so I need some help, so I bought the Samsung 65 inch MU8500, and I bought a $200 4K Sony blue ray player, I first watched Thor ragnarok and it looked pretty good,

This should be your reference point. A known source and known settings... If this title looked good to you then the problem may not be with your hardware.

...but the setting these “experts” recommended made the TV look so dull and without vibrant colors, so I left the settings back to original, some one please help me

Respectfully, the "experts" you disparage above did take the time to respond. Right or wrong, you should respect and appreciate that. A lot of things contribute to picture quality and perception of the same.

 

[Scott Merryfield]

I am not sure where you went for your settings, but try here. I used their settings for my Samsung MU8000 display, and got better results than attempting to do the calibration myself via the Digital Video Essentials BD.

 

[Gsal9296]

I am not sure where you went for your settings, but try here. I used their settings for my Samsung MU8000 display, and got better results than attempting to do the calibration myself via the Digital Video Essentials BD.

Almost every calibration was the same, with movie mode and then warm 2 I felt the screen was very dull, and it just looked dark, I don’t know maybe it’s just me, but did it work in yours?

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Almost every calibration was the same, with movie mode and then warm 2 I felt the screen was very dull, and it just looked dark, I don’t know maybe it’s just me, but did it work in yours?

I thought the settings from rtings.com worked very well with our 49-inch MU8000, which is in our bedroom. I could not get a picture I was happy with using the calibration disc I own, but the settings from that site look very good to me. I do not have a 4K player connected to this display -- just HD cable TV, a 4K Roku Premiere streaming box and a Blu-ray player. Our Sony 4K UHD player is connected to a Vizio 70-inch display in the family room, which is our main home theater.

 

[Brian Kidd]

Almost every calibration was the same, with movie mode and then warm 2 I felt the screen was very dull, and it just looked dark, I don’t know maybe it’s just me, but did it work in yours?

Sal, part of what you're experiencing may also be due to the fact that default settings on televisions are almost always boosted through the roof to make the picture "pop." Manufacturers want their TV to stand out in what is most likely a super-bright store with fluorescent lighting and thirty other TV's right next to it. Extreme contrast and over-saturated colors are common. While that certainly serves as an attention-getter, it is not (normally) how the Director of Photography, Director, or person preparing the video transfer intended for the image to look.

When I first discovered and joined the HTF (Holy moly. Eighteen years ago.), I found out about calibrating your television to bring it as close as possible to the picture standard that has been laid out by the engineers who decided how televisions should work. The reason you would do this is because, when a film is being prepared for home video, the people who do it are using monitors that are also calibrated. If your TV is calibrated, then you are seeing exactly the type of picture that the people who prepared the film saw and approved. Here's the thing: It's almost always not as bright or colorful as you see with factory default settings on your TV. Once you have your TV calibrated (or, if nothing else, have adjusted your settings to those that a knowledgeable person or website have posted), your eyes will adjust in a relatively short amount of time to the "less dynamic" picture and going back to factory settings will make you think that you've hit your head and have a concussion.

Why is that? Because a blown-out image tends to eliminate details in both bright and darker parts of the image. Also, the human eye has an easier time with black and white than it does with color. There isn't any need for super-saturated colors in most instances. If the film is one that is intentionally designed with these kinds of colors (like Speed Racer), then a properly-calibrated set will let you see them just fine. Trust me.

I guess what I'm saying is that, in the long run, you're better off having your TV calibrated or, if that isn't an option, finding decent settings online and trying them. You'll achieve an image reproduction that is much closer to that which is intended by the people creating the image transfer and will be able to make out details that would otherwise be hidden because of the boosted contrast, brightness, and saturation.

 

[George_W_K]

What settings are you using on your player and tv? Deep color? Wide color? Etc. When I first connected my 4k player, Blurays looked great, 4ks didn't look so great. I had wide color off. I fixed the settings and everything looks as it should with 4k discs.