Old Ben
Novice Member
Hi all,
I bought this 50" TV new from John Lewis a couple of weeks ago. The picture seems fine, apart from some juddering which I will get into in a moment, but some things are bugging me about the Picture Mode Settings and I'm unsure if this is how it should be.
Firstly, there are three backlight settings: Off, Low and High. Toggling between these three options makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. I have tried selecting them on different picture modes, using uniform colour backgrounds etc. The option to change the backlight clearly does nothing. As it is I have found a picture quality I am happy with, whatever setting the backlight is defaulted to, but I would be interested to know if this is a fault or not.
Secondly, there are a number of Ultra Smooth Motion settings. This is more difficult to judge but again, as far as I can see, these settings do nothing. There is slight juddering on the screen whatever I do - especially noticeable in sport. In fact I can rewind and play the same bit of action and the TV handles it in the same way showing the same juddering every time. Every setting shows the same juddering. I can resolve this problem by toggling on the Gaming Mode, though that is at the expense of a sharper picture. Only then does the juddering disappear and that is how I watch my sport now. Not ideal - and what sort of motion smoothing creates more juddering?
The other Picture Mode Settings appear to work well as far as I can see (maybe not Adaptive Contrast but who knows what that does?)
So is this something I can solve myself? Is this simply because this an OS that is designed for a range of Hisense TVs with my model simply being one of the cheaper ones that isn't able to be controlled by everything in the menu? Or is the TV faulty?
Many thanks.
I bought this 50" TV new from John Lewis a couple of weeks ago. The picture seems fine, apart from some juddering which I will get into in a moment, but some things are bugging me about the Picture Mode Settings and I'm unsure if this is how it should be.
Firstly, there are three backlight settings: Off, Low and High. Toggling between these three options makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. I have tried selecting them on different picture modes, using uniform colour backgrounds etc. The option to change the backlight clearly does nothing. As it is I have found a picture quality I am happy with, whatever setting the backlight is defaulted to, but I would be interested to know if this is a fault or not.
Secondly, there are a number of Ultra Smooth Motion settings. This is more difficult to judge but again, as far as I can see, these settings do nothing. There is slight juddering on the screen whatever I do - especially noticeable in sport. In fact I can rewind and play the same bit of action and the TV handles it in the same way showing the same juddering every time. Every setting shows the same juddering. I can resolve this problem by toggling on the Gaming Mode, though that is at the expense of a sharper picture. Only then does the juddering disappear and that is how I watch my sport now. Not ideal - and what sort of motion smoothing creates more juddering?
The other Picture Mode Settings appear to work well as far as I can see (maybe not Adaptive Contrast but who knows what that does?)
So is this something I can solve myself? Is this simply because this an OS that is designed for a range of Hisense TVs with my model simply being one of the cheaper ones that isn't able to be controlled by everything in the menu? Or is the TV faulty?
Many thanks.