This is the first week that the new 2005 HLRxx67W Samsung 720p DLP HDTVs are arriving. It is time to start an owners thread to focus on the HLRxx67W models. Please post your impressions of these new sets, pictures of your setup, tweaks, problems, and ideas about these great HDTVs.
[Note: After the 1080p models are introduced in June a separate owners thread will be setup to focus on the Samsung 1080p models. For general information about both the 720p and 1080p models check out the 2005 Samsung DLP HDTV Thread ]
When you are through with the SM, turn the power off, and back on again, within 3 sec.
I say within 3 sec in each case, to preven the lamp from having to "restrike", which eats up lamp life.
Don't make any changes to the SM if you don't know what you are doing, and make sure to write down the values of any item you are going to change BEFORE you make the change...there is no way to get back to "default"
For Lamp Hours:
Cursor down to Options, hit Enter
Look down the tree and you will see the hours on your lamp listed.
IMO don't even think about making changes through the service menu unless you have taken time to read through all relevant portions of this thread, as arduous as it seems. The changes are not easily undone without you having marked your defaults, are sure as heck not covered by warranty and apparently very few are capable of and disposed to help if you ignore sage advise to arm yourself with sensible precautions described herein first before mashing buttons in a frenzy. Newbies should notice that free ranging experts don't check in daily.
The two changes I made about a week ago make the TV look so much better than it used to. I'm just wondering if it drains the bulb life more or anything like that.
hey guys is there 1 or more changes u could do in the service menu that would improve the picture quality? i have never accessed that menu or anything so yea, or is there some good option to turn on there ?
i dont understand, isnt DNIE should give a better picture man? samsung is bragging about it so much and it seems to be the main thing about their TVs, whats so bad about it? my picture for HD is awesome..
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i dont understand, isnt DNIE should give a better picture man? samsung is bragging about it so much and it seems to be the main thing about their TVs, whats so bad about it? my picture for HD is awesome..
As a test, play the opening scene of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire after you have calibrated your TV. Can you clearly see the wall of skulls, the tombstones, and the snake crawling btw them? I could not on my 4266W. All I could see was something moving around on the screen. I turned off DNIE in the service menu per settings that were posted on this thread. I could then clearly see all details in the scene but my greens (moss on the tombstones) had a glowing quality to them. I then used the suggestion from another post to turn my green level down a bit in the service menu to fix the glowing green problem.
We were pleased with the PQ with just calibrating the TV thru the user menu and was ecstatic w/ the PQ after turning off DNIE. Another tweak that I did in the user menu was to adjust the color levels. Using the AVIA calibration disk, I was able to simulate calibrating the tint even though it is not available thru component connections. I believe that it was the green level and increased it to 7 but then backed it off to 3 once we watched a movie.
I have posted all my settings and search on my name should pull them up.
Hello, I am brand-new to this forum although I've had my HLR4667W for a year and a half, since spring/summer of 2005.
For quite a while, on regular "analog" cable channels, sometimes when viewing a picture that has a solid-color background (especially it seems yellows or greens) I can see a pattern of parallel vertical lines running through the entire patch of solid color. It is pretty distracting, but not enough to do anything about it. I just did a search of this board and saw nothing, and I have done some searches in the past.
Has anyone else experienced this, and if so, what is causing it? The HDTV picture is just stunning, this only happens on analog (SD) channels.
Also I'm curious if there is a consensus on optimum settings for the HLRxx67W series (brightness, contrast, etc.). I just ordered an Oppo 981HD DVD player, which may arrive tonight - and the one thing I am very concerned about is the macroblocking issue which is supposedly pretty serious on DLP HDTVs unless you get your black levels just right. I don't have DVE or Avia discs, I was just going to try starting with the THX Optimizer and see how much progress I make with that. I'm a little bit scared to go into the service menu, mostly because I'm concerned I'll void my 4-year service contract.
Anyway, any input on any of this would be helpful. Thanks.
I have an HLR-4266W that I will have had for a year next month. I have an extended warranty from Best Buy on the TV. The warranty states that it covers a yearly cleaning on the TV. I would like to take advantage of this since it is included in the warranty. I've kept the exterior wiped down with a micro fiber dusting cloth and the set is still working and looking great.
I was wondering if the cleaning is something that is really necessary or would be very beneficial to the set. I am a bit worried that having someone clean the set may cause damage or introduce problems. Has anyone else had any experience with cleanings or maybe could offer some advice on this.
I have a hlr4667w,Samsung DLP that I have a problem with that is driving me up the wall. I have different sound levels on different channels. I have tried to equalize them using the auto sound setting in the setup menu with no luck. I am playing the set thru a Sony Receiver connected to Polk audio speakers. I thought maybe the settings control on the Time warner remote control would help but changing it makes no difference. Your Help and suggestions will be appreciated. Frank
Hi, This is my first post on this forum. I'm having a strange problem that started a couple of weeks ago. We started seeing horizontal bands of color across the screen. They were approx. 1/8 the height of the screen and would alternate between blue, green, and red. Sometimes there would be multiple bands of varying colors and sometimes they would mix together. But they weren't just color bands overlaying the picture. It was as if the image in the bands had an effect that made everything look like a photo negative but with the occurring color. Then they started to merge and pretty soon, the whole screen would look like a photo negative but with multiple colors. It would sometimes go away, other times the severity of the distortion would vary. Now, it seems that the effect is occurring almost constantly and usually to a very severe degree where the picture is very hard to see. Every once and awhile however, the picture will totally clear up for a very short while then revert back to the problem, It's really strange and I can't find anything on this anywhere. Anyone have any ideas based on this hard to describe problem? Thanks much.
This may be a dumb question, but before shelling out hundreds of dollars for a cinemavu...
Has anyone tried hooking up an external hard drive with firewire to their Samsung sets to see what happens?
I'm pretty certain nothing would happen because there is no software or identifier file (like an xml file that would define what the device connected to the tv is) on the hard drive that the tv could look at to identify it, which leads me to my next dumb question.
Does anyone know of any software that can be loaded/installed onto an external hard drive to make the Samsung recognize it as a dvr because that's what the Cinemavu essentially is....an external hard drive with a firewire connection with some sort of software installed.
Just for some background, I was the guy who was having the weird dim flickering on his TV. My lamp has 3,000 hours on it, and it was annoying me, so I went into the service menu and changed the lamp sync to "Pass" instead of the default "Pulse" and then change the Lamp Control to "Always" instead of "Dynamic"
The flickering went away, and the picture is better than ever. My only concern is that it's going to like, shred the life of the bulb for some reason, I don't know what these two settings do, but for the past week or two, I've run the TV several hours a day like always nad had no problems.
I call Circuit City to get a replacement bulb lined up, and they said I can still get one from Samsung, so I called them and within 2 minutes, they have one being mailed to me within 7-14 days. and then I can still get one from Circuit City within the next 3 years, that is awesome. I might try switching back to the default lamp controls when I get the new bulb just to see if it still flickers, but I think I'll go back to the settings I have now, cause it looks so much better.
If anyone knows the details on the Lamp Sync and Lamp Control settings, that would be great.
My new light engine was replaced yesterday. The tech had to spend sometime aligning the image on the screen. It does not appear that I have to do a major recalibration.
I now have to solve posterization and enter the CCA cooridinates of this new engine. I was so preoccupied with getting the old lamp that I forgot to check the label of the new engine. I gues here in Canada they won't give the lamp.
Hello all, I searched this board for an answer to a question, but found nothing that exactly answers it. I've been tweaking my HLR4667W lately in conjunction with a new Oppo DVD player with HDMI, trying to minimize macroblocking (with some success). I ventured into the service menu today for the very first time - turned of DNIe first, based on some posts here - but also wondering if there is a way to reduce or eliminate overscan on the display. I found the place where you can move the picture horizontaly and vertically, so I did that to center the picture. But there is still some overscan, not sure what the percentage is but I'd like to play around with that too if possible. Is there a way to do this? This is not related to macroblocking on the DVD player, I'd just like as much of the picture to show up on my screen as possible instead of losing it around the edges. Thanks.
This message is somewhat related to the one above. As I mentioned, I disabled DNIe in the service menu per instructions provided here (took all values down to zero except for some that had to do with red, green & blue which I left alone. Now I have started noticing on HD channels that sometimes a very faint horizontal or vertical "clear line" appears for just a millisecond every once in a while, about 6 inches from the outside edge of the picture. It could even be a faint rectangle where the picture is just slightly disrupted for a moment. It's almost invisible, and disappears quickly - but it is there. If I can't figure out which DNIe value causes this to happen, I'll probably just enable DNIe again. But if anyone knows what this is and which value to isolate in order to fix it, please let me know. Thanks.
Hi all. I posted this issue in a different thread, but thought I'd put it here as well. Hope y'all don't mind. If I can't get it figured out by Tuesday (Holiday tomorrow), I'll just call Samsung and see what they want to do.
I'm having a strange problem with my Samsung HL-R5667W and I want to avoid having the tech come back again (read: Wait 4-5 days).
I had a problem with 2 stuck mirrors, so I called Samsung and they had a tech come out 6 days later, he ended up replacing the light engine with a new one.
Everything was working fine, or so I thought. Tonight (He came yesterday) I decided to watch a movie and my HDMI input isn't working because HDCP is either disabled or not set up. My DVD player doesn't output audio/video through it but does send a signal. If I hook up my 8300HD cable DVR via HDMI it gives me an error.
"Your HDTV does not support HDCP. Please disconnect the HDMI connector and use the component connection to continue watching TV."
I went into service mode but didn't see anything obvious about HDCP and I wouldn't have thought replacing the light engine would have caused HDCP to fail.
Does anyone have any clues? If all else fails, I'll call Samsung and have them send someone out...again.
Does a new light engine always come with a new bulb? When I first talked to the service rep, I asked him this, and he said no. I've read in this forum that it did. I want to make sure that he doesn't screw me over by taking out the new bulb from the light engine, and replacing it with my old one. I'm sorry... I don't trust anyone
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Hi all. I posted this issue in a different thread, but thought I'd put it here as well. Hope y'all don't mind. If I can't get it figured out by Tuesday (Holiday tomorrow), I'll just call Samsung and see what they want to do.
I'm having a strange problem with my Samsung HL-R5667W and I want to avoid having the tech come back again (read: Wait 4-5 days).
I had a problem with 2 stuck mirrors, so I called Samsung and they had a tech come out 6 days later, he ended up replacing the light engine with a new one.
Everything was working fine, or so I thought. Tonight (He came yesterday) I decided to watch a movie and my HDMI input isn't working because HDCP is either disabled or not set up. My DVD player doesn't output audio/video through it but does send a signal. If I hook up my 8300HD cable DVR via HDMI it gives me an error.
"Your HDTV does not support HDCP. Please disconnect the HDMI connector and use the component connection to continue watching TV."
I went into service mode but didn't see anything obvious about HDCP and I wouldn't have thought replacing the light engine would have caused HDCP to fail.
Does anyone have any clues? If all else fails, I'll call Samsung and have them send someone out...again.
I've had intermittent HDCP issues as you've described when trying to fire up my SA8300 HD box as well. It seems to have been a thing of the past though, as since the firmware update (automatic through rebooting the machine) fixes this.
Try unplugging your box for a few minutes, then plug back in and reboot. I always turn on the tv first, then the box - and I seem to have no problems when doing this.
When I do get a problem - it was usually after accidently turning off the cable box, then back on - or turning on the cable box then turning on the tv after....
Last night, the tv flickered to snow and full green then to "check signal source" and "check cable" or some such messages. I checked the HDMI cable, and when I wiggled it near the input on the back of the TV, the picture would come up then off until it doesn't come up at all anymore.
The HDMI cable is fully inserted at both ends. I'm assuming it's the input on the TV that is bad or loose. Any ideas otherwise?
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I've had intermittent HDCP issues as you've described when trying to fire up my SA8300 HD box as well. It seems to have been a thing of the past though, as since the firmware update (automatic through rebooting the machine) fixes this.
Try unplugging your box for a few minutes, then plug back in and reboot. I always turn on the tv first, then the box - and I seem to have no problems when doing this.
When I do get a problem - it was usually after accidently turning off the cable box, then back on - or turning on the cable box then turning on the tv after....
Thanks. I wish it was just a problem with the cable box. The problem is on the TV end, nothing connected via HDMI which uses HDCP will work. HDCP is "broken" ever since the light engine was replaced.
My DVD player is what I use via HDMI, I simply connected the cable box to try and determine where the problem was and that's when the HDCP error popped up.
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