JohnDimitrov
Novice Member
So, I had this tv, Philips 7303 43'', but I sent it back for a 50'' model. And it feels like I have a different tv now. help me understand. The 43'' model, was darker, blacks were so deep like qled blacks, and colors pop out more thanks to color optimization. I'm a gamer so color were amazing, in game mode, I only turned contrast to 100, disable eco mode, and colors to 75. But I always had the feeling something was not right, the tv looked dim, I knew that the max brightness is 350 nit, so I thought "okay it is what it is", when I was playing game menus or some scenes looked very dim and dark, even with contrast to 100. i went to "brightness menu" in games, and they always say turn your brightness up until you see the figure, but even with all the game brightness up, you couldn't see the figure. I thought it's weird but maybe it's normal. PQ looked amazing overall, thanks to colors popping and deep blacks (but I had a major black crush on that tv). Watching Netflix I've noticed that sometime, the processor was struggling to encode the right colors, so I saw like "living pixels" trying to figure the color out, on skin tones and other stuff, especially in dark scenes (watching fast 8 on Netflix, HD, Movie mode, with all the tv enchanters off, no colors optimizer on or other stuff, there's a lot of scenes with this problem, or penny dreadful on netflix) same happened with blu rays. I mean, it was not that obvious, but an expert eye, can definitely see it. I decided to return the tv, because I had a transparent banding on the panel, and they gave me the 50'' version. A different world. First of all, the panel, the viewing angle are quite bad, if you sit on the front of the tv, you notice that the center is more dark, and right, left borders are more tending to a white light, if you move your head left to right, these light goes away and it becomes like the center of the tv, so I think it's viewing angles, but I didn't thought this would affect you even if you watch the tv in the front. But, I'm so surprised that the Brightness is so different and high now. things doesn't look dimmer anymore, it's so bright compared to the 43'' version. I soon noticed that colors were so different, in game mode I have to turn color to 95 if I want it to look like the 43'' version... but why? I thought they were the same. Then colors doesn't pop out like on the 43'', the pop out effect you can have it only if you keep "cold" as preset. But colors optimizations seems not working on the other presets, like standards, vivid. I have to turn the color setting up if I wanna the same effect of the previous 43'' one. Even for the other presets, I had my favorite settings, tested on the 43'', I tried to set the same settings on the 50'' and they look different, so I feel like I have to study new settings. Then, I've noticed a little bit less resolution, but maybe it's normal if you move from a 43 to a 50? (1600 ppi will look more popping out on a little panel, right?). The Black crush is gone, because blacks are not so deep like the 43'', I can see more details now. and the living pixels struggle is not there anymore, on the same movies I tried before. But black bars on movies tend to be more lighter. I'm happy for the brightness and the colors set to 95 in game mode. Even if without that deep black, it feels like the PQ is not deep anymore. So what happened here? I had a bad 43'' panel, dimmer with colors set to max, or the 50'' version use a different technology? I even thought to have a ips panel, but no clouding, and the 50'' version can have only the VA panel right? Or they have different panels manufactures? At this point, I just know every tv you buy is different from the same models..
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