'ello John, 'ow's yer RGB Only Mode?

[swee'pea99]

What does it all mean?

Turned the telly on to find the colour all over the place. Or, rather, 'gaudy'? Loud? Brash? This telly has what it calls a 'Sports Mode', which I checked out. Once. I recommend shades and a bucket.

This wasn't quite that bad, but it was heading that way. I suspect a Samsung overnight update. It's the kind of thing Samsung would do. They hate their customers. Wasn't sure what was out of whack, but I did discover among other things that Contrast was on 100. Halving that helped a lot. And I fiddled briefly with brightness. But beyond that, I'm really pretty clueless.

Ok Brightness I get, and Contrast but Sharpness? ("No! I want it blurrier!") Tint (G/R)? And what's Backlit when it's at home?

I'm thinking of making my Colour Space something other than Native. Any recommendations?

 

[Dirk]

I haven't got a TV......

 

[vickster]

Go to AVforums and ask about settings for your specific TV. Usually a cinema mode will give you the most natural picture

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Go to AVforums and ask about settings for your specific TV. Usually a cinema mode will give you the most natural picture

^^^^ This plus we found our Sony on YouTube.

 

[lazybloke]

Definitely sunglasses when the beeb ramp up the colour for Monty Don's garden.

 

[newfhouse]

What happens when you hit the reset button shown in your second picture?

 

[Supersuperleeds]

What happens when you hit the reset button shown in your second picture?

You go back to 1955 and only have three channels to choose from

 

[All uphill]

You go back to 1955 and only have three channels to choose from

Black and white with speckles was the default setting in 1962 when we got our first telly

 

[keithmac]

I always put ours in "Movie" mode and leave it at that.

The Sports or Dynamic are only really for the showroom where people pick the brightest screen (far too hard to watch at home).

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What does the manual you read say?

 

[Mr Celine]

Log into your router and block Samsung. Stops the irritating upgrades.
Search online for lists of sites they use for advertising and block them too.

 

[presta]

I have a Humax PVR which has a wide repertoire of software bugs to wind you up with.

Every once in a while it switches to 720p instead of 1080i, then just to make sure you're sufficiently p!ssed off, it removes all the other options from the setup menu so that you can't put it back again. Nearly an hour's job to re-boot default mode, retune, reprogram all your favourites, reset all the record timers, and reset all the non-default setup settings. Sometimes it'll even do it again a few minutes later.

Or there's the colour which goes doolally, orange instead of blue etc. Same fix.

The recorder sometimes stops before the program ends.

The alphanumeric selector panel on the You Tube search page disappears so that you can't search for anything.

The weird one is when the recorder won't work, and all the existing recordings disappear from the menu. Rebooting won't fix that, you have to reformat the HDD too. I thought that reformatting deleted everything on a HDD, but not this one, all the missing recordings reappear (and still work) when you do that.

 

[swee'pea99]

I haven't got a TV......

Well that didn't take long

Go to AVforums and ask about settings for your specific TV. Usually a cinema mode will give you the most natural picture

Intereresting! I just tried that and couldn't find my model, but followed some pretty convoluted tweaks for another Samsung which I'm guessing should be comparable, right down to fine tuning the gamma something or others. Looks a bit muted now, but I'll see how things look in the evening, which is when it really matters. Damn good starting point tho', so thanks for that.

What does the manual you read say?

What is this 'manual' of which you speak?

Log into your router and block Samsung. Stops the irritating upgrades.
Search online for lists of sites they use for advertising and block them too.

Excellent idea. Don't suppose you have a link to a YT idiot-proof 'how to' or similar? (I can log onto the router...that's about it.)

I have a Humax PVR which has a wide repertoire of software bugs to wind you up with.

Every once in a while it switches to 720p instead of 1080i, then just to make sure you're sufficiently p!ssed off, it removes all the other options from the setup menu so that you can't put it back again. Nearly an hour's job to re-boot default mode, retune, reprogram all your favourites, reset all the record timers, and reset all the non-default setup settings. Sometimes it'll even do it again a few minutes later.

Or there's the colour which goes doolally, orange instead of blue etc. Same fix.

The recorder sometimes stops before the program ends.

The alphanumeric selector panel on the You Tube search page disappears so that you can't search for anything.

The weird one is when the recorder won't work, and all the existing recordings disappear from the menu. Rebooting won't fix that, you have to reformat the HDD too. I thought that reformatting deleted everything on a HDD, but not this one, all the missing recordings reappear (and still work) when you do that.

That must be really annoying. Without wishing to hex anything, I have to say all my Humaxes have been very good & rock solid reliable.

 

[keithmac]

Our 4k Toshiba randomly crashes, was a bit surprised really as they used to be a decent brand.

Last Samsung was bullet proof.

 

[ColinJ]

You go back to 1955 and only have three channels to choose from

Black and white with speckles was the default setting in 1962 when we got our first telly

21st April 1964 for the addition of the 3rd channel (BBC2) and 1st July 1967 for colour on that channel (later on the other 2)!