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Perfectly smooth 24p blu rays on the 680! another good reason to buy one
Perfectly smooth 24p blu rays on the 680! another good reason to buy one
Haven't noticed they weren't smooth anyway, what does this option do exactly? Presumably it invalidates any warranty doing it?
i agree, spent yesterday watching fringe on bluray and thought it looked superb?
im certainly a bit wary of possibly invalidating my warranty considering people have problems with these sets
maybe i mis-understood the firmware thread then?
as everyone was talking about changing model numbers type numbers etc, i thought you had to do that?
but why wouldnt samsung make it easy to do? is it a feature for more expensive tvs or something?
I don't understand why a feature such as Cinema smooth is advertised on the front of the box and yet is not enabled ?
Has anyone spoke to Samsung about this?
I'm sure I remember that the Cinema Smooth was disabled on the PS50C6500 because of the bug which causes the black level to get worse when it is activated.
did you notice any quality difference?
Can't see any changes myself in it. I played some scenes in District 9 last with it on and with it off but didn't notice change in the black levels.
In the review of the Ps50C6900 on HDTVTest it confirms that there is a black level rise when switching cinema smooth on, so i assume that this model would also be affected.
Also, can anyone confirm that Cinema Smooth was not activated as default, and the alteration to the service menu just adds an option to toggle it on or off?
Maybe on their set it did but I certainly didnt notice any. If the black level rises, turn the brightness down a notch or two. Simples
No, Its not activated by default, the service menu toggles it on or off.
Not quite as simple as turning the brightness down, but thanks for the confirmation.
Should be, the brightness controll controls the black level.
Unless something else is causing it. But still if it turns the black level up, surely turning the brightness down will bring them back down
I meant that although brightness does control black level it should still be set with a pluge rather than just turn the brightness down until it looks black. I suspect that if you just turned brightness down you would lose some shadow detail.
Take a look at the pictures on this page showing the effect of switching cinema smooth on:-
Samsung C7705 plasma black level at 50Hz vs. 60Hz vs. Cinema Smooth
It is possible that this is not a problem on the 680. If so it makes it even more of a bargain.
If it does rise you can always take a measurement with Cinema Smooth mode on and save those settings.
But I honestly didnt notice any jump in black levels on this set, would be interesting to see if anyone else has.