The OFFICIAL SAMSUNG PNXXE6500 OWNERS THREAD - Page 14

I just purchased a Samsung pn60e6500. Great TV, minor buzz. I used the cnet calibration settings by David K.

I was wondering if anyone was successful in running the PC input name trick while playing video games? After you change the input name to 'PC', do you still turn game mode on to give the game some extra brightness, or do you just leave the normal 'Movie' mode settings that you would use for watching TV?

Any updated calibration settings for TV viewing, or even for playing games (if different) would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

I'm a noob when it comes to tv's, as I am just a humble accountant. Thankfully, I can follow instructions if I can find them.

Can you? I seem to recall that switching to HDMI1 named to PC, greyed out a lot of the calibration settings. Most / all of the TV's internal processing is disabled which might be it's fast and lip sync stops being a problem.

There are a few things that can still be adjusted but I've forgotten what. You could perhaps instead make adjustments to the graphic card settings?

i think pc mode switches tv to standard/normal mode.

Hmmm this is strange. I edited the name to where when I select the input (HDMI 2 for the xbox in this case), it states the 60i signal coming as well as PC for the source information.

All of my picture settings are still enabled, as I can switch to Movie, Standard, or Dynamic. I also tried plugging it into HDMI 1, and still had the same effect. However, it seems to be working as input lag is noticeably less than my Samsung C series LED. I've just been using dynamic.

All I am suppose to do when changing the name to PC is press Input, the correct HDMI location, Tools, and then just scroll to PC and press OK?

Thanks for the help so far.

*EDIT

I just asked a Samsung Rep through live chat if the PC naming trick worked for US Samsung TV's.

He replied:

Rep: I am sorry; editing the source name doesn't decreases the input lag on the TV.

After trying to clarify further, he stated:

Rep: I understand your requirement, editing the source names doesn't change the input lag from the source device.
Edited by apeavy2010 - 2/11/13 at 11:43am

Changing the input name to "PC" reduces input lag on my US Samsung TV. You can't turn game mode on when using "PC", that option is grayed out.
Edited by Gooseboy - 2/14/13 at 1:49pm

I seem to recall it only works on HDMI1.

It does stop the TV's lag caused by it's own processing because it disables the processing.

If that's the best advice your Samsung Customers services could offer it's just as well you have this forum.

Hi all im a newbie so please be gentle!!

My samsung PS51E6500 arrived and was setup on tuesday. Picture colour etc all seem great as do the features... Was worried about bright lit room etc but its fantastic! Only problem i have is the whole Image Retention and Burn in. I have noticed that after watching sky news for 16 minutes when i changed the chanel i could very very faintly make out the bar from sky news (it is only faintly visible on light images/ backgrounds), however after changing the channel it took it about 15 minutes to totally dissapear.
Now i know im a stresser so maybe im looking for the I/R & Burn in. And after going from an LCD to Plasma im maybe overly worried that the I/R and burn in will become more obvious if i watched sky news for an hour!
Iv only had the tv for 2 days approx 18 hours veiwing time... Im hoping someone can shed some light on this please;
-But is this common?
-Will this just be something that will happen for the 1st 100hours or so?
- is there anthing i can do?
- will this IR get worse to the extent that my screen will be damaged?
Thanks in advance!

It works on any of the three HDMI ports.

Has anyone tried this on a PNXXE6500? I know people have mentioned it working on their Samsung TV, but I was wondering if anyone has tried it on this particular model. The reason I ask is that no video options become grayed out whenever I change the name to PC.

ME55Y - This should start to go away in a couple of weeks. I have zero IR, but I ran my TV constantly on HBO (no logos) for a week before I started watching things with static logos or scroll bars.

Thanks apeavy2010, fingers crossed!

Just a quick question for you guys if you can help

- is anyone having problems with the youtube app, videos buffering and ffreezing?

- on the topic of pc connection which hdmi port would you use to connect your pc/ laptop??

Thanks in advance!!

It says in a couple of places that I read, one perhaps being some instructions from Samsung, that you should use HDMI1.

However if all three work the same then it's a choice of easiest socket to plug into.

Ok thats cool!

Anything on the youtube app mate??

I used to have a totally fault free 51 inch version, but no more Tonight, after few months it started to buzz. Maybe it's just a coincidence but it happened after i finally connected my cable tv decoder and internet to TV set. It happened when i was watching smart tv content, probably Experience 3D or sth like that (app with 3d demos). I had even some strange error and instead of having 3D picture i got vertical green lines and some flashes of actual picture between them (problem disapeared after restart).

Question is: anyone got the buzz that disappeared after some time or it just stays? Maybe we need to warm up the electronics with some bright animations or photos? Is the buzz getting worse with time or it's getting better? I think I'm the first person that buzz occured after few months, most of the cases buzz is from the day one

Any sugestions? Warranty only or are there some chances that it will disappear as suddenly as it started?

Sorry, I don't use that or know anything about it.
In my case the buzzing volume depends on the brightness of the picture. White screen is a lot louder than dark screen.

The buzzing is most likely the coils / transformers / inductors. Poorly made parts that are too cheap for the task they need to do. But this TV was maybe ½ the price on the Panasonic.

Question: I am in Canada and updated my firmware from 1027 to 1029 last Sunday. On Samsungs website the official firmware is still 1026.1?
I have to say that 1029 made some nice picture imporvements, the picture looks brighter and colorful. Anyone else that has the 1029 version installed?

That's weird I just updated my 60 inch to 1027 just this week, now it's 1029?

Yes, updated it to 1029 and have to say I do see improvements. With the 1027 version I had some banding issues with bluray during dark scenes, but thats all gone with the 1029 version. Also the picture looks a bt brighter and the colors a bit deeper.I dont use SMART, so can't comment on that if there are any improvements. Keep in mind to be carefull with these updates I had a 51E550 a year ago, updated it and it was totally out of wack, Samsung support said not to upgrade firmware online but only by downloading the official firmware on their website and upgrade by USB. I told them why do you have the online upgrade option then, they could not give me an answer on that. Because of the banding issues in 1027 I decided to upgrade to 1029.....although: were is 1028?

since my display is hooked via a wired highspeed connection I always update via online as well. Weird they would say not to use this method. How did you update? Also what since is your display, I hear that different sizes have different firmware updates.

I have the 60inch version like you do. But use WiFi. I was a bit hesitant to install the 1029 version coming from the 1027 version, I mean what happened to 1028? Well at least there were some improvements, a year ago it totally ruined my TV and brought it back.....

I'll try updating tonight since you say there is an improvement. I was looking all over the web what 1027 does and couldn't find it.

Ok hope you will like the update. I also cant find anything regarding 1027 nor 1029, almost sounds like leaked 'beta' updates, so use at your own risk?

Hi Everyone, New Samsung PN51E6500 Owner.

I've had the TV for a couple of months now and it has worked fine until the last couple of days.
My picture is no longer centred properly. The picture is coming across as too big for the screen.
For example, when I'm watching a hockey game, the score which is usually on the top is above and out of site.
Channels that have scolling news on the bottom like CNN, BNN, Newsworld, etc. is partially off screen.
When I play a DVD, the picture is fine (widescreen).

On a computer, I would adjust screen resolution for this, but I've searched all menus and tried different settings for two days now and can't find anything to fix it.
It's on 16:9, highest resolution, Standard picture (movie or the others didn't help).
I've tried resetting to default, upgrading to latest software and powered off my pvr and Tv but it's still not right.

Anyone have any suggestions for me?

thanks for any help!

It's an aspec issue on your tv or your cable box, someone changed it , check the aspec size on your cable box too.

sorry-double post...

Thank you for the reply!!

I believe I checked that area, and the only other option available was 4:3
Changing it to that didn't help, so I put it back to 16:9

Would there be a setting on my pvr/cable box remote for this also?
I'm wondering if I hit that by mistake?

thanks again!

I seem to recall from when I spent a couple of weeks at the settings some months ago, that there was a combination that annoyingly altered the screen size away from correct. Don't recall what that was though so can't help you.

Since the picture is fine while watching a DVD, that seems to indicate that your issue is with the source (cable box/STB) rather than the TV, unless the TV's picture settings are specific to each input, which I doubt, but maybe.
Who is your cable provider and what model is the set-top? I would look for the settings menu and find a setting for screen size, aspect ratio, SD vs HD and/or Resolution.
Resolution should be 1080 (usually limited to 1080i)
Aspect should be 16:9
Screen size: wide, HD

Now, when I had one of the older, big gray clunky boxes -- I forget the brand -- I had Charter Cable, there was some stupid trick you had to do to configure this, that involved powering off the STB, holding down some combination of buttons (not on the remote but the actual box) and going thru a series of questions. I wish I could be more helpful there but I don't remember anything else about it. You might have to do one of these routines. It might be a good idea to call your provider and get them to earn their exhorbitant service fees.

My TV picture settings, FWIW: Settings -> Picture --> Screen Adjustment -> Picture Size: Screen Fit

Bingo!

Latinoheat and Bustamelon nailed it!!!

My PVR/Cable picture setting somehow got to "Zoom 1".
Once I changed that to "Normal"...all is fine!

I didn't realize there were settings on the PVR, for some reason I thought they were factory hardwired.
I'm not sure how the setting changed, because there is at least 3 levels to get to it.
Anyway, good lesson to learn and thanks again for the help!!!

Glad you got it sorted!

hi guys. owner of a 60" here. for the past couple of weeks i noticed my picture just wasn't as sharp anymore, some stations were ok while other were very grainy the settings that i had been using were from cnet and my picture always looked fabulous until a few weeks ago when this problem started. a coincidence since that's when i also updated to firmware 1029. so just a warning for some with this firmware because it was driving me bananas. everything was fine but it just looked like a super grainy snowy picture. even a still picture of say a wooden panel,you would see all the pixels constantly shifting.. i did tons of research and figured it out i was suffering from dithering. i never had this problem before so i tried everything from changing hdmi cable, changing cable box, calling cable provider etc... nothing did anything. today by accident i finally figured it out. the solution was to turn on digital noiser filter, which is strange since we're always told to turn all the extra processing off. but this made a huge difference and my pic quality looks good again.