Unfortunately, my first post here has to be one about a problem I noticed just recently. I have a 46 inch 71 series samsung TV, I love it by the way. This christmas i got a toshiba HD-A35 to pair with it, using a HDMI cable. I figured that now ive gotton into HD-DVD, i should go look around on the internet for some proper settings. i deceided to use the setting CNET used on their 71 series. i put in all the settings right, but when it said to put HDMI black level to "normal" i found that it was browned out and i could not highlight the option, just skip over it, and its stuck at "low" too. I found out that putting this option to normal should brighten up the picture, this is VERY important to me because I did notice most of the scenes in HD movies to be very dark.

so I call samsung to ask them about it, they said it was either a problem with the hdmi cable, or to call Toshiba and ask them about it. so i called toshiba, and they said that there should be nothing making the option on my tv unchooseable becuase of the DVD player, and they said it might be a problem with the HDMI cable too. so i got a new HDMI cable and it still dosnt work . so i've pretty much run out of options. any help?

btw, ive tried to change settings while watching an HDDVD and while not, no luck.

Regards,

Max

settings used: http://help.cnet.com/9602-12576_39-0...sageID=2510457

Greetings

Why don't you just calibrate the TV to a real test disc instead of blindly using other people's settings derived from different DVD players?

This takes all of 5 to 10 minutes. DVE HD is $22 ...

THX optimizers are "Free" ... included on THX discs.

Regards

The set needs to be in Movie mode to use most of the settings.
In standard and dynamic , many options are greyed out.

As Michael said try a calibration DVD too.

Greetings

Yup ... the movie mode is a good place to start on Samsung sets for anywhere near decent OOTB settings.

Regards

well i found out that the toshiba hs-a**'s dont do HDMI black after reading around in the official 71 series forum. and i decided to use DRS1ONLY's (right name?) settings (in the official 71 series calibration thread) becuase they were highly recommened, i am very pleased now.