Official LG 47LW5600/55LW5600 "Passive 3D" Owners Thread - Page 60

Originally Posted by mrfatboy

Thanks for the tip. I don't even know what the "just scan" option does. I will have to read up on it. Can you tell us how much the calibration cost?

Originally Posted by clemon79

Alright, let's try this again.

So, to you people looking for the "LG 3D Demo", put yourself in the shoes of one Captain Jack Sparrow. If HE were looking for such a video, whilst sailing about in his ship, where might he look? Possibly an inlet of some kind, a cove, a sound?

Originally Posted by HairyPinkElephan

I'm not a videophile to any degree so forgive me if my questions are dumb. I just got the 47" set from Frys yesterday and I love it.

I was watching Cloudy with a chance of meatballs bluray last night and I noticed that in the opening when there is only black on the screen and some lettering moving across the screen, this large blob of light followed the letters around the screen. Is this what clouding is? I'm using the settings posted earlier in this thread and was watching through my PS3. I labeled my PS3 as game. It was pretty funky to see the blobs/clouds but it only happened on all black screens, the whole movie I never saw anything like it.

The down side to all this contrast goodness is that black bars on letterbox movies showed some fluctuation. On 2.40:1 movies, if there was a bright object in the lower left corner of the screen, then that quarter or so of the bottom black bar lightened. This effect was noticeable only in a dark room. I also saw that a black screen was not illuminated evenly, with cloudy areas throughout the screen. These could be serious flaws is you prefer to watch wide aspect ratio movies in a dark room. Thankfully, the side effects of the zone dimming disappeared for the most part when the room lighting was normal. I could still see the black bars fluctuate if I looked for it, but it wasn't distracting.

Originally Posted by mrfatboy

This sounds more like you have local dimming on. The led lights in the back panel are lighting up around the text in your example.

Originally Posted by ubermoxi

Active "glasses" are dead.

Samsung is working on RDZ, which basically moves the active shutter to the TV, and you would wear passive glasses. The only issue would be possible flicker if you are sensitive enough.

A simple but costly solution is to double the resolution of the panel, then the only issue is the (finer) lines you will see if you sit close enough.

Originally Posted by Michael2000

Passive is a great alternative, but as long as passive is half resolution, with black scan lines separating the active ones, active glasses will still be preferred by some consumers.

Michael

Originally Posted by leftyguitar1963

@Killerz928>>

In Chad's Review "The down side to all this contrast goodness is that black bars on letterbox movies showed some fluctuation. On 2.40:1 movies, if there was a bright object in the lower left corner of the screen, then that quarter or so of the bottom black bar lightened. This effect was noticeable only in a dark room. I also saw that a black screen was not illuminated evenly, with cloudy areas throughout the screen. These could be serious flaws is you prefer to watch wide aspect ratio movies in a dark room. Thankfully, the side effects of the zone dimming disappeared for the most part when the room lighting was normal. I could still see the black bars fluctuate if I looked for it, but it wasn't distracting. "

>>>This is the very reason i took back my Sony XBR46HX909. IMO, you're going to get this sort of thing with all LD, whether full array or edge-lit, so if this kind of thing is a deal breaker you should opt for a plasma. I would've taken the 5600 back too, if it wasn't for the way it resolves 3d, which is exceptional! So, I try to at least have 1 light on in the room & the 5600 is more than adequate.

Originally Posted by Tapioca Cold

Yeah, welcome to edge-lit. It looks terrible doesn't it? I had to learn the hard way too. Honestly, I don't see why these TV's even sell. They all look terrible (all edge-lit lcds anyways).

Never again for me. Sometimes I think people just say there TV's are awesome because the shelled out a couple G's for them. I really don't see how this TV is so good. I mean the blacks are worse than my Sony W4100 which is 4 years old.

Oh, well.

Originally Posted by mrfatboy

I just switched my settings from 16:9 to "just scan". I can see a noticable Improvement in PQ. This tv gets better and better as i dial it in

Originally Posted by bbsstuff

Changed my aspect ration to just scan and didn't see any difference in the picture. I did notice that the black bars on 2.35:1 aspect movie I was watching
became wider when using the just scan setting. Anyone else have that result ?

Originally Posted by mrfatboy

what settings did you use? I can't seem to make it work.

Originally Posted by sadmaker

just scan is 1:1, which displays the picture without any scaling.

Originally Posted by bbsstuff

Anyone having a problem playing sound on the LG 3D Demo. When I play the demo (MKV file) on my PC the sound is fine but when I try to play it on the TV there is no sound except for a periodic burst sound.

Originally Posted by mrfatboy

I just converted the LG 3D demo (original MKV) to a MP4 file and the sound now works!


I used this free video converter.

http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/

Originally Posted by bbsstuff

Anyone having a problem playing sound on the LG 3D Demo. When I play the demo (MKV file) on my PC the sound is fine but when I try to play it on the TV there is no sound except for a periodic burst sound. I tried this through both USB and PLEX media server. I also have movie DVD's I have ripped to PLEX and the sound is fine on the TV but on DVD's that I have converted from VHS tape and then ripped there is also no sound. Used MakeMKV to rip the DVD's. Can't figure this out.

Originally Posted by rarjar

I used this to convert the LG demo to MPEG4 (along with some other 3D clips) and still have no sound so I guess I'll play around with some of the other formats this evening, that is unless someone here can tell me what I'm doing wrong, lol!

Originally Posted by Michael2000

Passive is a great alternative, but as long as passive is half resolution, with black scan lines separating the active ones, active glasses will still be preferred by some consumers.

Michael

Originally Posted by Tapioca Cold

Yeah, welcome to edge-lit. It looks terrible doesn't it? I had to learn the hard way too. Honestly, I don't see why these TV's even sell. They all look terrible (all edge-lit lcds anyways).

Never again for me. Sometimes I think people just say there TV's are awesome because the shelled out a couple G's for them. I really don't see how this TV is so good. I mean the blacks are worse than my Sony W4100 which is 4 years old.

Oh, well.