The Official Samsung SlimFit HDTV Thread... - Page 31

The technology is there for this thing. Its just horrible how many people are getting bad sets. I bought this knowing all the issues it had. I seen it in the store and the picture was jaw dropping. I was willing to exchange it to get a good one. I lucked out and on my first try I got a perfectly good one. It only has SLIGHT overscan. But what crt widescreen doesnt. Everything is perfectly straight on mine. Mine is strictly for games and movies. I will have to get some screen shots up and show everyone some pics of it. 360 games. The set is worth an exchange imo. Ill have to get some shots showing how everything is nice and straight. Pgr3 or madden 06 should do the trick.

And you don't have the loss of resolution out towards the edges?

I bought one of these TV's back in November. So far, it's worked wonderfully. However, I've never had a decent TV, so I don't have a lot to compare it to.

Anyway, last night we were watching TV and all the sudden the picture kinda got squished. There was about 4 inches of space at the top, and the sides near the top were angled in. It looked like the picture had been slightly squished like a marshmellow and slightly tilted backwards. I unplugged the TV a few times and it finally went back to normal.

Then today, the same thing happened, however this time the picture did not go back to it's normal position. On the Samsung support website it says "If the picture on your Dynaflat HDTV looks like a keystone, you need to get the TV serviced." I called Samsung and they said they'd have to send someone out.

Has anyone had this issue? Were you able to remedy it on your own? The issue occurs no matter what source/input you have selected.

Please help!

Bryan

No I dont. The picture is crisp all around.

Do yourselves a favor - get rid of this TV! Best thing that happened to me was having the power supply go bad.

I now have a Sharp LC32D40U in its place and there is no comparison at all. I'm now mad that I lived for so long with that Slimfit and its geometry issues.

Picture quality - I was kidding myself with the "CRT is still the best picture" line. Not the Slimfit!

While in the CC buying my new set I was able to talk another guy out of buying a Slimfit, so I did my good deed for the day.

If it were me, I would re-calibrate the set. Most of your SM adjustments have to do with the main board, and should be revisited.

Cheers!

Korn...I notice you play the Xbox 360 on the slim-fit. I do as well. Out of curiousity what resolution do you have the 360 dashboard settings at? Right now I'm using 720p widescreen but occasionally get a screen flicker on the bottom inch or so of the screen. Its most noticeable on the dashboard and certain games. It flickers like crazy on the recently released Topspin2. I'm wondering if switching it to 1080i would remedy the problem. I've had the set since last September and its performed flawlessly. Though if this flickering doesnt stop, I'm running out and getting one of the newly released 26" Samsung lcd's.

Actually I took the time and went into the service menu and my problems have been fixed. Heh...I was even using the default settings on dynamic and changed over to custom settings. Talk about a huge improvement in picture quality. And to think I was already pleased other than the screen flicker. Like others have mentioned, if you tinker with the service menu most of the problems with the set can be fixed.

how do u get to the service menu?

Just got my slimfit today, so far im satisfied. GRAW looks really nice. The only thing is i have the bowing issue everyone does. Not bothering me that much but i was wondering if anyone knows which setting in the service menu i should use to push the middle of the screen down. The middle is bowing up. Or how to move each side of the screen individually.

I have the Samsung 3079 slimfit..
How can you manually enter in a HD (antenna) channel without doing a channel scan?

I want to input 11.1 or say 11.2, I dont see a way to do this with the remote
at all. I hate having to rescan the channels just to try to get a better signal
and possibly bring in a channel i cant get all the time (11.1)...

Please tell me there is a way to input manual HDTV channels.

I can put 11 or any 2 digital channels in all day long, but dont see a way
to input the channel + .1

I tested a Sony hdtv tube tv in the store a few months ago and it
actually had a "." button on the remote i think.

Weird. I dont get the flicker problem. On 1080i I do with racing games. Specifically burnout revenge. I leave mine on 720p. Try switching it to 1080i. It might work out for you every tv is different.

Korn...thats exactly what I did. After tooling around in the service menu to adjust the picture more, I switched over to 1080i. Played the new Tomb Raider last night and had no flicker even on the dashboard. I'll have to try Topspin2 out later to see if the problem is truly gone or if its game specific. I mean I've had the set since last September and the 360 since the Nov 22 launch. Had it on 720p all this time and just now started to notice it. The flickering was always there occasionaly on the dashboard but never as much in games.

Thats some really weird stuff goin on there. I have the tomb raider demo myself. I havent had any flicker problem with that game running the input through 720p or 1080i. Ive never had any flicker problem as a matter of fact running in 720p. The only game that has given me that problem is burnout revenge on 1080i. I switch it down to 720p and its smooth as butter. The picture is more soft resolution wise and smoother.

Hmm...I just popped in Topspin2 and its still there somewhat. It may be my copy of the game. I'll exchange it tomorrow for a new copy to hopefully remedy that. I should have expected it though since the game released at $39.99 new. Out of curiousity do you use a custom setting for your picture? If so what do you have it set at? I was just using the dynamic setting with its default values but was tinkering with custom setting last night. Still not positive that I like my current settings. I'm always interested to see what somebody else is using. Especially considering you use the set for 360 gaming and movies which I use it for gaming only.

Ouch. Kill that dynamic setting asap man! Use that during the day or when theres a ton of light in the room. Dynamic puts your contrast level all the way to 100. In your manual it actually talks about what these settings do and are for. Anyways. I use the standard setting for everything and called it a day. It looks great. Btw... what model# do you have?

Its the TXR-3079WH. Its really not a bad set. I'm just trying to dial the picture in more now. I never messed with it when I first bought it.

Oh ok. Yeah man standard mode is perfect imo for everything.

every hd channel has a coresponding channel number. for me OTA SD ABC is 33, but HD ABC.1 is 63 and HD ABC.2 is 64.

So if i hit 33 i get SD ABC, and if i hit 63 i get HD.1.

The good thing is, once the channel is recognized, using channel up/down rotates through 33 then 33.1 then 33.2, regardless of the actual broadcast order, 33 ... more channels... 63, 64.

Hope this helps and im not too confusing.

Ive bee playing graw and ive noticed that the brightness sometimes goes up and down. It will be fine then it will be really dark for a while then go back. It sounds like this is some kind of dynamic setting to manage brightness> Anyone know what it is. I am using custom not dynamic btw.

Does the new TX-S3082WH also have the geometry problems?

So I've been reading this post since page 1 and since everyone seem to be having different luck I thought I'd share how my Samsung purchase went.

I barrowed my friends Mustang Convert which was entertaining to watch the loading guy's reaction. I opened the convert and said it'll fit in the back seat, I knew it would because I measured it. It was a squeeze, but it fit, my main concern was closing the lid because it was pouring that day.

I got it home and I got one of the bad ones, on each side of the 4:3 there was an S shape, I tried to fix it in the menu with doubt since I've adjusted some TVs before. I of course took it back and got an exchange and insisted we plug it in before I take it home. Some of them were ok with it but the loading guy wasn't all that pleased with me. They of course weren't interested in plugging something into it for me, so I had to check it via the 2 seconds of snow the TV provides. I then asked about the hourglass shape and they got a manager who said oh that's because there's not signal too it. I just about hit my head on the counter; little did he know I just returned one with geometry issues. I took it anyway with hopes to be able to fix it since it was only an hourglass shape and not the S shape from the previous one.

I got it home and it was a lot better then the previous one even with the hourglass shape, I have now adjusted for it in the menu and there's a minor s shape but not enough to neither complain nor worry about. I figure over time I'll either get use to it or forget about it. My friend didn't even notice this time and if it's in widescreen and you watch something with a line in it you can't tell unless you're seriously looking for it.

I want to thank the people that have posted other info on adjusting things like the red push it makes the picture much more enjoyable.

I seem to have some sort of AC leak some where which I tought was my old TV but apparently not because it hasn't gone away. I found out when I shocked myself with the cable, which the company has been out here to see what it is and blamed it on my equipment and not the cable. So what I'm wondering is if I need to be doing something about it or just deal with it for the two months I'm living here. I've also thought about getting a Monster Cable Power Strip that does some purfication. Are there any thoughts or opinions on that?

Get one! Totally worth every penny and does what it says it suppose to. Heres a link to the one I bought.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1077627972545

If this post gets edited with the link. Heres the make and model.

Monster Power Home Theater PowerCenter
Model: MPHTS1000

Well ive been looking at my screen to try and figure out whats making the brightness change. Whenever there are a lot of dark colors on the screen it gets darker for some reason and if something like a dialog box that has a bright background comes up the whole screen gets brighter for some reason. Anyone got any ideas?

IMHO...I wouldn't waste the $100 or so on their cables....but the Monster CleanPower units DO seem to do a good job. If you've invested big bucks on HD/AV, you owe it to yourself - and your equipment - to spend a bit more to protect it......

This is a real reach considering I don't even own this set, but this sounds like a symptom I had with my CRT-RPTV. If I disabled the SVM (scan velocity modulation--called VSM by some manufacturers), the problem went away. It was a very annoying problem.

Please do.

For sure. Ill try and get something up by tonite or tommarow.

Do some pictures of the 360 dashboard too since that has many lines and the geometry will easily be seen.

Take some shots in 720p and also 1080i.

My camera sucks. Its only a 2.0mp kodak :/ So the quality sucks. Some pics may look somewhat blurred but they really arent. Its my camera. Pay close attention to that dashboard. You can clearly see the 1080i is much sharper. Also look close with the pgr 3 pics. The 1080i looks more clearer. Look at the ground and take a peek at that arrow on the left side. Also look on the bottom roof of the car. The lines going across are more crisp in 1080i and visible than 720p. The ground is even more crisp than the 720p. By the higher resolution. Just by looking at those few things you notice the difference. Dont put your face in the pics or you will have trouble seeing the differences. 1080i might look better. But it plays smooth as butter with 720p. 1080i is alot more rough and blurry with racing games. Onto the pics.

480p dashboard

720p dashboard



1080i dashboard



480p pgr3



720p pgr3



1080i pgr3



kameo



tomb raider