Blu-ray: Expecting too much or do I have a problem?

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Firstly, apologies but I'm a newbie to home cinema and don't have the knowledge to accurately describe technical aspects like hue and the like.

My wife and I have just watched the first blu-ray movie on our recently set up system (as below). Following many recommendations on this forum, we decided the first film would be 'Batman: The Dark Night'. The picture was impressive, but there were a few moments where we were wondering if things were really how they should be.

Our concerns mainly revolved around dark scenes. There were 4 or 5 occasions where it went into a scene with a dark background (e.g. when the Joker is being interrogated) when, after a slight delay, the dark background went a deeper black. It was a bit like a light being turned off.

A similar thing occurred during the credits at the end of the film. The background was dark(ish), with an effect like being backlit by a light (entire screen rather than one particular area). For a moment, where there was a short single line of text, the background dropped to a perfect black. This is the moment where I thought 'Yes, that's how it should be'.

My question is am I expecting too much, might I inadvertantly have some automatic adjustment switched on, or could I have a faulty component?

Any thoughts would be gratefully received.

Many thanks

LL

 

[Anonymous]

Hi, great setup for a starter by the way. (Upgrading my player to a 760 very soon)

Basically, this is the dynamic backlighting engine for the LCD panel, usually more noticeable with LED backlit TVs.

It basically reduces the backlight level, based around the most bright element on the screen at that time, I assume you currently have it set to Best Picture.

The only way round this is either set it to Off or to Best Power, but then your overall contrast levels will drop and your blacks will not be as good.

I have a lower spec' philips, and I am now used to it, I had a samsung LED previously, and although the black levels on that where better than my philips, I had to get rid of it as this process was so obvious.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi markjaspi,

Thanks for the reply. You're correct, I've initially set the personal picture settings on the TV based on those used by What Hi-Fi during their review. This means that 'Dynamic backlight' is set to 'Best picture'.

I'll have to have a play around with the various settings and see what effect they have.

Cheers

LL

 

[aliEnRIK]

Youll more than likely find the best picture can be obtained by switching all the extra processing garbage OFF

You really need to calibrate BRIGHTNESS and CONTRAST at its basics too