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Hey guys, I have recently purchased a Samsung E8000 plasma and would like to raise a question regarding the way the automatic brightness limiter works in comparison to other plasmas I have looked at including the Panasonic ST50. It's a difficult thing to describe, but basically it appears that the Panasonic makes much smaller and more frequent changes to the brightness of a scene when the ABL kicks in which makes the process far less obvious than the Samsung which seems to make much larger changes a lot less frequently.
If you watch something like Art of Flight for example and the camera pans from the snow to the sky, on the Panasonic the snow increases in brightness very smoothly and is not really noticeable. With the E8000 the brightness of the snow does not increase smoothly but instead "jumps" in brightness half way through the scene making it very obvious.
I know eagle_2 has made some comments about this elsewhere but thought it might warrant it's own thread. In some ways it seems quite similar to last years FBr issue in that it would only need to transition smoothly instead of jumping instantly and it would be fine - perhaps if enough of us complain we could get a firmware fix similar to last year?
Interested to hear everyone's thoughts on the issue. I have tried many different settings and the only way I am able to remove these large jumps in brightness is to bring contrast down to 50 which is obviously not acceptable. I have also noticed that the Dynamic Contrast setting triggers the jumps in brightness a lot less than actually raising the contrast control - setting it to high with a contrast of 50 I do not notice any jumps in ABL, however I suspect it is crushing whites and blacks, and it does not look as good as setting it to off with a contrast of 100.
If you watch something like Art of Flight for example and the camera pans from the snow to the sky, on the Panasonic the snow increases in brightness very smoothly and is not really noticeable. With the E8000 the brightness of the snow does not increase smoothly but instead "jumps" in brightness half way through the scene making it very obvious.
I know eagle_2 has made some comments about this elsewhere but thought it might warrant it's own thread. In some ways it seems quite similar to last years FBr issue in that it would only need to transition smoothly instead of jumping instantly and it would be fine - perhaps if enough of us complain we could get a firmware fix similar to last year?
Interested to hear everyone's thoughts on the issue. I have tried many different settings and the only way I am able to remove these large jumps in brightness is to bring contrast down to 50 which is obviously not acceptable. I have also noticed that the Dynamic Contrast setting triggers the jumps in brightness a lot less than actually raising the contrast control - setting it to high with a contrast of 50 I do not notice any jumps in ABL, however I suspect it is crushing whites and blacks, and it does not look as good as setting it to off with a contrast of 100.