Official Samsung UNxxES8000 Owner's Thread - Page 214

Originally Posted by Catt99 

* Provide fix for Angry Birds
* Improve SmartHub
* Enhance picture quality

Originally Posted by brentqld 

Paul from Conceiva (Mezzmo) posted this reply to my post on their site "Playing all videos in a playlist or folder is a feature of your TV and not Mezzmo. We don't have a Samsung E-series TV, but we do have D-series, C-series and B-series and I assume your TV will be similar in operation. When a video starts playing (streaming via Mezzmo), press the Tools button on your remote control and navigate to the "Repeat" setting. You can choose "Repeat All" (plays all videos in the folder/playlist - which is what you seem to have now), "Repeat Title" (repeats the same video over and over) or "None" (no repeat playing - which is what you seem to prefer)."
Paul was correct, the TV does have a "Repeat" setting but mine's already set to Off (or None) so, I'm still confused.
The repeat function does work but it works a bit too good: when I turn it on to "Title" it repeats the one playing, when I turn it on to "All" it pays the next file in the folder, which it also does when the function turned off!
Cheers,
B

Originally Posted by JDenham 

** New Update 1041.1 ** just checked the Samsung website and notice there's a new update haha I'm still on 1035

Originally Posted by Catt99 

If you're trying to calibrate colors from channels through your FIOS box you're fighting a losing battle. And a professional calibration is not the answer. Keep in mind the panel is displaying, with whatever degree of fidelity it can, the source material it is fed. Put another way, if you are seeing different color schemes (most notably for you in flesh tones in the face) with your current color settings, a professional calibration won't "even out" the color schemes that your sources are feeding the set.

Originally Posted by brentqld 

Paul from Conceiva (Mezzmo) posted this reply to my post on their site "Playing all videos in a playlist or folder is a feature of your TV and not Mezzmo. We don't have a Samsung E-series TV, but we do have D-series, C-series and B-series and I assume your TV will be similar in operation. When a video starts playing (streaming via Mezzmo), press the Tools button on your remote control and navigate to the "Repeat" setting. You can choose "Repeat All" (plays all videos in the folder/playlist - which is what you seem to have now), "Repeat Title" (repeats the same video over and over) or "None" (no repeat playing - which is what you seem to prefer)."
Paul was correct, the TV does have a "Repeat" setting but mine's already set to Off (or None) so, I'm still confused.
The repeat function does work but it works a bit too good: when I turn it on to "Title" it repeats the one playing, when I turn it on to "All" it pays the next file in the folder, which it also does when the function turned off!
Cheers,
B

Originally Posted by thebignewt 

Has anyone but me tried VuDu, the download movie service that has some 3D titles to rent? I signed up 2 days ago specifically because they are the only ones who rent 3D movies (I think they are $5.99). There are not a lot of titles for rent now (like 5-6 I think) but probably more being added all the time. They do sell them for $35 which is about average. I haven't bought any, but I think if you buy it stays in the cloud on their site. I don't plan on buying any. You can also rent a lot of regular movies just like iTunes, they have 3 quality options at different prices. The highest is $5.99 and we watched Lincoln Vampire last night and it was great, including the sound (which is very Blueray like). I downloaded a freebee 3D bit pimping the Seychelle islands (my brother has been there 3 times from the UAR) and it looks excellent. Just wondering what anyone else's experience has been with their 3D rentals. BTW pay as you go like iTunes, no subscription fee like Netflix. As suggested I swithed my AVR input to HDMI2 to get the sound.

Originally Posted by Catt99 

I've watched one or two movies from VuDu, but not 3D. Both mine were their HDX versions (full HD and 5.1 or better sound, if I recall correctly). There is another service that rents 3D blu-ray movies the "somewhat old fashioned" way, a la Netflix - sending discs in the mail. User RicoFlashback got his hand slapped by a moderator for sharing the info in this thread (or in multiple threads) because, I gather, it was seen as promoting a vendor (which I DO NOT think Rico was doing -- I think we was sharing his impressions and appreciated his post. In any event, the service has its own thread in the 3D Content forum here at AVS: http://www.avsforum.com/t/1322117/http-www-3d-blurayrental-com/0_100. I haven't used them, but have seen some positive impressions shared by others (and I'm sure if you read through that lengthy thread going back a year and a half you'll see some good and bad).

Originally Posted by thebignewt 

Has anyone but me tried VuDu, the download movie service that has some 3D titles to rent? I signed up 2 days ago specifically because they are the only ones who rent 3D movies (I think they are $5.99). There are not a lot of titles for rent now (like 5-6 I think) but probably more being added all the time. They do sell them for $35 which is about average. I haven't bought any, but I think if you buy it stays in the cloud on their site. I don't plan on buying any. You can also rent a lot of regular movies just like iTunes, they have 3 quality options at different prices. The highest is $5.99 and we watched Lincoln Vampire last night and it was great, including the sound (which is very Blueray like). I downloaded a freebee 3D bit pimping the Seychelle islands (my brother has been there 3 times from the UAR) and it looks excellent. Just wondering what anyone else's experience has been with their 3D rentals. BTW pay as you go like iTunes, no subscription fee like Netflix. As suggested I swithed my AVR input to HDMI2 to get the sound.

Originally Posted by Garnoch 

I haven't watched any 3D from VuDu, but I rented one HDX because I had a credit for signing up. I'll check out other 3D but otherwise will stick with my Apple TV being it's cheaper to rent 1080p that way. That being said - bad news for Apple TV owners. Either with the latest Apple TV update or the last Samsung update, the Samsung no longer passes AC3 from Apple TV's HDMI out through it's optical connection to the AVR.

Originally Posted by thebignewt 

Has anyone but me tried VuDu, the download movie service that has some 3D titles to rent? I signed up 2 days ago specifically because they are the only ones who rent 3D movies (I think they are $5.99). There are not a lot of titles for rent now (like 5-6 I think) but probably more being added all the time. They do sell them for $35 which is about average. I haven't bought any, but I think if you buy it stays in the cloud on their site. I don't plan on buying any. You can also rent a lot of regular movies just like iTunes, they have 3 quality options at different prices. The highest is $5.99 and we watched Lincoln Vampire last night and it was great, including the sound (which is very Blueray like). I downloaded a freebee 3D bit pimping the Seychelle islands (my brother has been there 3 times from the UAR) and it looks excellent. Just wondering what anyone else's experience has been with their 3D rentals. BTW pay as you go like iTunes, no subscription fee like Netflix. As suggested I swithed my AVR input to HDMI2 to get the sound.

Originally Posted by thebignewt 

I'll check out the rentals of the actual discs, thanks for that info. I like the 3D thing but don't want to spring $30 per very often. So Garnoch what you're saying is that your ATV (3 I assume) no longer gets sound from the TV to the AVR via optical? I think you can go optical- ATV straight to the AVR, that's what I did with my old AVR that didn't have HDMI input. Or go ATV-AVR and AVR to HDMI2 Samsung like I did for Vudu.

Originally Posted by thebignewt 

I'll check out the rentals of the actual discs, thanks for that info. I like the 3D thing but don't want to spring $30 per very often. So Garnoch what you're saying is that your ATV (3 I assume) no longer gets sound from the TV to the AVR via optical? I think you can go optical- ATV straight to the AVR, that's what I did with my old AVR that didn't have HDMI input. Or go ATV-AVR and AVR to HDMI2 Samsung like I did for Vudu.

Originally Posted by Op's Guy 

Since its a .1 update, wonder if a full reset is required with this one as well?

Originally Posted by Garnoch 

In case this helps.....
From the AVS Manual...
A4 Color Clipping
This clipping pattern is similar to White Clipping, but it splits the vertical bars into red, green, and blue. The pattern allows you to observe how white-level may affect colors on digital displays. Flashing gray is included behind the lettering that labels the digital values. The bars for 235 have been labeled as red, green, and blue to remind the user that 235-251 are allowed to blend together or clip. You can use this pattern to ensure that red, green, and blue are not blending together for 219-233. If the range from 219-233 does not flash, you may need to lower white-level so the entire range of colors will display. Using this pattern you may find that red, green, and blue do not necessarily clip at exactly the same levels, but you simply want to make sure levels lower than 235 flash. Nearby levels can be difficult to tell apart, so if the display never shows flashing for 235 or higher it may be difficult to spot flashing at 233.
A few weeks ago we were talking about colors in general, especially reds in Standard being too vivid. Some people may like that, which is fine, but I seem to prefer a more "natural" look - closer to what the directors and editors intended so I had lowered my overall Color to 45. I wound up bumping it back to 48 because I realized I perhaps liked a little extra vividness. While it's true that Contrast seems to need to be lower in Standard mode, on my panel it doesn't need to be that much lower based on the WOW BD and AVS files. Using the Color Clipping file as well as those others, it confirmed for me a Contrast of 98 in Standard, but it also confirmed my Color should be 45. So I lowered it back to 45 again. If for viewing pleasure I want it to be a little more vivid, I may bump it up later, but for now I'll leave it at there being all colors flash up to 233.

Originally Posted by slopokeR 

fellow samsung owners, which of you have boughten the extended warranty, and which one, I got my tv at Sears, I need to make up my mind by saturday they seem to have a really good Policy thier but its 500+ for 3yrs. what do you guys recommend and why.
thanks again.

Originally Posted by mx6bfast 

I have a backlight of 13, contrast 80, and color 49. If I were to bump up contrast but lower color, would I then go into Color Space and set the colors there? Then I would check Color again?

Originally Posted by Garnoch 

What's the release notes? HA never mind.
Thanks

Originally Posted by Catt99 

* Provide fix for Angry Birds
* Improve SmartHub
* Enhance picture quality

Originally Posted by Catt99 

BTW, 2 things:
I update firmware online rather than USB, and when I tried to update it currently shows as "No update available for you" (I am on 1040).
I also bought the SquareTrade warranty from Costco.

Originally Posted by slopokeR 

fellow samsung owners, which of you have boughten the extended warranty, and which one, I got my tv at Sears, I need to make up my mind by saturday they seem to have a really good Policy thier but its 500+ for 3yrs. what do you guys recommend and why.
thanks again.

Originally Posted by Garnoch 

I'm no video pro so don't have equipment, but here are my thoughts. After trying many many settings while playing around and trying out just about every "calibration" in the first 100 pages here and everywhere else on the web, I settled on the basic color & white balance settings of CNET's movie mode setting. A lot of people here already know that but I bring it up because I got the color "right" before setting everything else and have never touched those color and white balance settings in Movie mode. I didn't have to. i did tweak those settings once I put them into Standard mode because of the differences in the two modes, including losing the 10p settings.
I then tweaked the other settings with extras like Dynamic Contract and Black Tone OFF with the Disney WOW BD and the AVS files found at this site for free. Not all panels are the same but like CNET's, mine seemed about right with a Contrast of 100 and Color close to 50 was fine (I did back it off a little though) and Brightness around 46 or 47. That was for Movie mode.
Going back to Standard this past week though, I realize I had to back off on the red gain in white balance though, at least as low as 5 to get it looking about the same as Movie mode. But based on the WOW BD and AVS files, I had to lower the Contrast to 98 and Color to no more than 45. Brightness was about the same (based on similar white balance offsets), but because I raised the Brightness to compensate for automatic screen dimming, I had to lower the offsets to counteract the brightness.
So no, I did not go back to Color Space. But yes, once you change one thing, you have to go back to the others and check and tweak. As for your Backlight, that's irrelevant to your "calibration" really. Set it to what is comfortable with your lighting conditions and change accordingly. Or find a good Backlight for daytime viewing and a good one for night time viewing and instead of changing them manually, set the Brightness for your daytime setting and the ECO mode for your nighttime setting and it will take care of things automatically for you.
Sorry - no time to proof read this right now.
Good luck!