Bluish Tinge in 2009 LED TVs

Try changing the color temp to "warm".

I have a UN46B8500, this blue tinge has plagued me for over a week. NO AMOUNT of tinkering within the regular menu's has fully eliminated it. I have a fully licensed ISF calibrator coming next week to use the service menu to correct the problem.

My best advice, set it to Movie and Warm 2. play with the white scales and push red up a little higher while moving blue gain down. This somewhat elevated the issue but it is not gone.

It's driving me nuts.....

I'll update once the professional calibration is complete to let you know whether or not $325 fixed the issue......

I compared a C6700 to a B7090 and the new C Samsung didn't had this bluish tinge.

But you can use the Blue Mode and some test pictures (on some THX Optimizer on DVDs or Blu-Rays) to adjust the picture. Hope it helps.

Movie Mode takes the pop away, can't use it really.

I have seen a 2009 Samsung LED with this blue tint problem. It was definitely a problem. You could put it on movie mode, with a warm color setting and the tv still had a blue tint. Much worse than the blue tint you get from vivid mode.

I saw some photos of the "blue tint" on another thread. Unless you have gone into the service menu and screwed something up, I would say you need to contact your retailer and start over with another unit, because something is wrong. I generally have my 8500 on either "standard" or "natural" and I have no such problems; it's simply the whitest, brightest TV that I have ever seen, complimented by the darkest blacks ever.

Correct. No bluish whites, period. I see that image that was posted of the blue bleeding out into the black and just scratch my head. Just curious; do you wear corrective lenses?

white LED's are in fact Blue LED's that have been adjusted to look more white, using White LED's in a TV results in the color gamut getting skewed into the blue range heavily so its at least a decent possibility that may be what your seeing with white images.



if your referring to blue tinged blacks that is a fault of LCD's by design esp with slight off angle viewing, some get purple colored blacks but most turn bluish

I can definitely say that my UN46B8500's blu-ish tinge is bothering me so much that i refuse to watch the television until my THX ISF Certified Calibrator arrives on Monday the 29th. I spent a lot of money on this TV, $350 had better correct the issue, otherwise i'm getting Samsung to replace / repair my UN46B8500.

This blue tinge is really obvious on whites and grays. Try watching a hockey game when the players jerseys look slightly blu-ish, not to mention the entire ice surface! I especially notice it in basketball games - the white stadium lights that reflect off the hardwood court floor - should be white - no it's blue-ish.

Yes i'm watching in Movie / Warm 2. It makes the ice look orange, and i still see a blue tinge......

Last night I was just flipping and again stumbled on a basketball game. They were interviewing a player close up - well the stadium lights were reflecting off his bald dark head, it was blue! It's horrible. Unless my TV's settings came out worse than most - I can't see how more people aren't complaining about this. For me at least now it's unwatchable.

My calibrator has done dozens of 2009 Samsung LED tv's so he's obviously familiar with them. He said he is 100% confident he would amend the issue.

Several years ago, when the first round of Luxeon "white" 1 watt LEDs came out, you could buy them by how they were binned.... from blue-white to nearly white-white. One reason why LED backlighting commands a premium is that the LEDs have to be white and they have to be matched.

True blue and white LEDs only really came out commercially in late 1990's and early 2000's, making LED lighting feasible. A read of Digitimes shows that LED manufacturers are having a hard time keeping up with demand for white LEDs for backlights and for lighting in-general.

I don't know what yields are like today, but generally there are far fewer "white" LEDs than "blue-white", and the white LEDs command a higher price. There might have been a parts shortage of the whiter LEDs, and they went with the next bin down....thinking that the user could adjust the set to compensate. Or, perhaps someone somewhere decided to take a chance and cut costs.

Frankly, I expected, sooner or later, to see this exact same topic for a third tier LED backlit set.

Not seeing any blue tint on my 55B6000 as far as I can tell.

I wish i could say the same about my UN46B8500. I'm hoping my TV just came calibrated horribly wrong out of the factory and my appointment with this THX and ISF certified calibrator can set things straight......

Well heck, maybe I just don't notice it. Luck is not always my strong point, so I'm sure mine is affected as well. lol

Really though, if it's there.....its minimal at the most. Whites seem very white to me and I see no tints of any kind as far as I can see. I'm not a video professional either though.