samsung lcd tv and sky hd

[blacksnake1]

i,ve been watching football on my new samsung tv on sky sports hd 1 and i,ve noticed the picture quite ain,t right, its been juddering a little, anyone has any idea what causes that, and how do i rectify it,the same was happening on other hd sports channels,

 

[Clare Newsome]

Have you tweaked the settings on your new TV? Some processing modes can cause all sorts of issues - more in our guide to setting up a TV here.

I assume you're also using a decent HDMI cable?

 

[aliEnRIK]

Go into the picture settings and turn off ALL digital processing (motion, DNR, contrast enhance etc etc). Start from the basics and see how it is then. Whats the model number?

 

[chebby]

On my Samsung LCD I am using 'Movie Mode' and colour tone = 'Warm 2' (complete misnomer as 'warm2' is the most natural looking)

Digital noise reduction 'off'

Constrast 80

Brightness 65

Sharpness 0 (anything above about 5 starts to introduce edge artifacts like in bad JPG photos)

Colour 45

Energy Saving = "low" for daytime/daylight or normal TV viewing and 'Medium' or 'High' for watching movies when lights are subdued/curtains drawn. (I think this is called 'Gamma' on other brands but my Samsung is a couple of years old so this may have changed now.)

Game mode is default off in these settings.

Before adjusting to these settings, reds used to 'scream' (and ever shimmer!) and were incapable of showing detail or texture on factory settings. Now red looks natural.

Get hold of a copy of 'Barry Lyndon'. I use the exterior/daylight scenes as a reference for natural scenic colours and for things like textures in the Redcoats uniforms. (Not visible in factory/showroom settings.)

The interior scenes in Barry Lyndon are excellent for assessing shadow detail, but remember no artificial set lighting was used at all, so night-time interiors have a colour cast from candles and the depth of focus was wafer thin due to an f/0.7 lens being used indoors.

More recent 'references' I use are 'Collateral' and any episode of 'Sopranas' where Alik Sakharov is credited as director of photography.