Samsung PNXXc550 Owners Thread *NO PRICE TALK* - Page 87

Originally Posted by scoobdude

PCD: some movies are filmed in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Nothing you can do about it. Might be able to zoom in. But important thing to watch is the resolution. If it states its at 1920 by 1080 then you are getting full resolution. Do you have any other BDs to test?

On to the 24Hz thing. The output from the player is 24 and that is what the TV is receiving, but it is not what the TV is putting out. It converts it to a 3:2 pull down.

Hope that helps and someone please correct me if I was wrong here.

Originally Posted by PCD

EDIT: I should mention a few other strange things....I have PIP mode available....also, as soon as I did the Blu Ray it said 24FPS on screen which I found intersting....I thought you had to turn the 550 into a 590 to enable that stuff...my actual model number is PN50 PL C550G1

Originally Posted by PCD

Just got back from swapping my HD cable box, (HDMI port was wonky) along with an upgrade to the highest Rogers offers, re: Internet. Speeds not bad (25mb down/1mb up), but I did it mainly to increase the cap. Up to 150GB a month now which is still anemic, but its the best I can get on residential.

For you non Canucks reading...Rogers wants to crush the recently launched Netflix up here to protect thier on demand services..., best way to do it was impose lower caps on us peons. Netflix has countered with a lower bandwidth option, but I wouldnt want to stream that on a large panel thanks.

Point is I havent had much time to play around today, and now I'm missing one of my HDMI cables so I suspect I gave it to Rogers in the bag with all the other stuff, so I'm going back to get it.

I will read the thread again and figure out how to test if CS is on when Im feeding the TV a Blu Ray, I know I saw it more than once.

Frost, that would be a startling effect, but I'm in middle of a "parting of the ways" with S.O., gave her the house and I bought a condo, so not too many friends coming over at the moment! The strip lights are a good idea and I did see that somewhere here, possibly in this thread. Thanks for mentioning it, and I do have Frozen.

Will report back.

Originally Posted by PCD

HDMI BLACK LEVELS
FILM MODE

I have both there, but greyed out???

Quick qestion? How do I stop the set from telling me there is no cable signal upon statup? I have no 75ohm screwed in to the connector, I am using HDMI directly from the Digital Video box to HDMI port 2.

Thanks

EDIT: Speeling

Originally Posted by Al Sherwood

Greyed out: 1)besides meaning the option is not available, 2)also indicates the signal required to make use of that option is not present.

Hmmm, I don't have any antenna signal either, but the Bell system alway is sending something out on HDMI possibly preventing the TV from defaulting to the antenna connection.

You could try either shutting down while on the last active HDMI input or, if you turn on the Digital Video box first maybe the TV will find the active signal rather then antenna.

Originally Posted by PCD

Hey Al
Upon starting the Samsung BD-D5300 player, the set immediatly displays 1920 x 1080 signal, 24Mhz....every time. So, now the question is : Why would they put those settings there in the first place if they are disabled? Makes no sense.

I might have something else enabled which precludes those settings from being enabled. I also "swear" I saw the soap opera effect a few times last evening, but it was my first time playing with it, so who knows.

Just cant get over the quality of this set, really. I can find NO flaw, now that being said, I may not even know a flaw if I see it, but there is certainly no buzzing, I can see shadow detail perfectly, no green specs floating around if I shove my nose to the screen, and I know the $500.00 wooden volume knob-$1000 a foot cable type folks will laugh at me, but the built in 15w speakers are really good (for what they are).

No Wally World in Ontario has any left and Im so very glad I stumbled on this forum.

Since Im in a Condo now we can forget about a high end receiver, but thats why I have the Sennheiser's , and the built in speakers cover the rest for now.

The digital cable picture with my new box is stunning (for cable)...I um, sort of, cough, "accidently" got in to the box's tech menu (looks like its running nix btw) and signal strength is great. Im at -0.0dBmV or so, with a SNR of 30 something IIRC.

Anyway, now its running perfectly, I guess its time to screw it up by playing around. I know just enough now to be a danger to myself .

Originally Posted by Al Sherwood

Yes, I have not yet found a fault with mine either!

The information that appears on the TV screen when it recognizes the source is not the refresh rate that the TV is using to lay that signal back, it is only report what is being applied. Since you mention that the Cinema Smooth was greyed out(?), I would say the CS is not enabled on your set. But having said that, if it is important you could always do the SM upgrade...

As for the 'soap opera' effect, I don't beleive that that affect a plasma set, only LCD sets. Maybe you saw some other artifact?

Originally Posted by tuxedocivic

I have to tell CS to activate every time I play a 24p source. My wife gets annoyed me going into the menu when the movie first starts.

Originally Posted by rsnyder005

could someone please tell me what the "SM upgrade " means regarding the 550 series. thanks

Originally Posted by scoobdude

IKEA LIGHTS: They have new ones where it has a color wheel you can adjust to get closer to the right temperature plus no more holding down the button and waiting for beeps They are the same price and the same name just a different sku. Here is the link http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50192365 I run 2 strips on each side. They double as a night light for the kids

For the speakers, if you use standard and play with the eq and turn all the other features on (voice enhancer, virtual surround etc) and with that I find they are quite passable. If i switch it to another sound mode it sounds tinny or lacking and you canoot adjust the eq. You being from car audio should know how to adjust these to your liking

Enjoy your new set

Originally Posted by SithLord

I'm setting up this TV for my father and have noticed that it doesn't automatically adjust the picture size according to source.

For example, if we tune an HD channel and set the P.Size to "16:9", it looks great. But if we switch to a standard non-HD channel, we have to toggle the P.Size to "WideZoom" in order to fill the screen. Then, if switching back to the HD channel, the TV won't automatically adjust the size back to "16:9".

Is there a way for the TV to remember the proper aspect for each type of source (480i vs 720p)? It's a pain having to manually adjust it each time. We have it connected to a Motorola DCX3400 DVR via HDMI to port 1.

Originally Posted by utsmaster18

Is there any way of getting rid of burn in? The NBA 2k11 score has burnt in at the bottom right corner...I can see the outlines of where the score would be when the screen is black and kind of make it out when it is really white.

Currently I'm running the screen rolling for about 1 hour but it doesn't seem to have gone away. I've been playing on game mode the entire time and I have pixel shift enabled the whole time too.

Any help?

Originally Posted by SithLord

I appreciate the responses but I'm not sure everyone understands what I mean. I understand that when watching an HD broadcast some of the commercials and shows will still have black bars. The signal is still coming through as 720p, which is fine.

But when we switch to a non-HD channel (480), we want the picture to adjust to a wide-zoom setting to fill the screen. My other set (not a Samsung) does this as it "remembers" the preferred setting for each type of signal. I was just wondering if this set has that feature and we just need to dig for it or if it had something to do with HDMI vs Component, etc.

Although our provider does have most of the traditional channels in HD, it is still missing a few of the popular digital specialty channels (like Space and Teletoon), and there are a few local channels that are still only in SD for now.

So basically, this is what I was looking for:

Tune HD (720p) channel --> TV adjusts to "16:9" P.Size
Tune SD (480p) channel --> TV adjusts to "Wide-Zoom" P.Size

Originally Posted by jhachey

I was having a problem streaming photos last night. I have my photos stored on a Western Digital MyBook World Edition NAS running TwonkyServer 6.0.32. I could happily find the photos in the various folders using my Samsung TV and then view the contents of a folder as a slide show. However, after about ten minutes, the TV would turn itself off and then back on (apparently rebooting itself). After the TV "reboot", I would have to wait a minute or two for the Samsung TV to find the network again, but other than that, everything would work happily for another ten minutes or so until the next "reboot".

Has anyone else experienced a problem like this? The photos were pretty standard snapshots and not particularly large (typically 2048 x 1536 pixels), so they were well within the TV's capability. Also, there were fewer than 200 photos in a given folder, so that should not have been an issue.

I suppose there could be an issue with TwonkyServer, but I'm hard pressed to imagine what TwonkyServer could be doing to cause a reboot. For what it's worth, I am able to stream MP3s from the NAS to the TV using TwonkyServer for hours at a time with no problems.