I just upgraded my excellent 37" B650 to a UE46F6400. Reviews of this set were excellent, and I reasoned that both sets cost me the same amount (around £700) but the later is 4 years newer, so should be better.
How wrong was I! The picture is so bad, it is unwatchable. I would have rated the B650 as a 9/10, I would rate the 6400 as a zero. The highlights are universally blown out, and there are horrendous sharpening artifacts such as halos, jagged lines, and ultra-pronounced noise on all inputs. SD sources, such as sat are unwatchable. Blue Ray input is certainly sharper than the B650, but at the cost of white halos in strange places and overblown highlights. For example, in Madagascar, Melmans head suffers from white outlines. The sand which spills from Alexes mouth when he gets washed up on the beach is a silver/white waterfall. In Avatar the noses of the blue people (Na'vi) are blown out.
There are 4 picture presets:
Dynamic
Standard
Natural
Movie.
Movie helps - it tones down the ultra-vivid blown out colouers, but picture still looks far worse than on the B650. Strangely, both Movie and Standard have a brightness of 45, but Movie is much much brighter than standard.
Does anyone have any watchable settings which work with all inputs (poor quality SD, low quality HD (compressed) and Blueray sources?
So far I am very much regretting chaning TVs.
Viewing distance is around 4m.
How wrong was I! The picture is so bad, it is unwatchable. I would have rated the B650 as a 9/10, I would rate the 6400 as a zero. The highlights are universally blown out, and there are horrendous sharpening artifacts such as halos, jagged lines, and ultra-pronounced noise on all inputs. SD sources, such as sat are unwatchable. Blue Ray input is certainly sharper than the B650, but at the cost of white halos in strange places and overblown highlights. For example, in Madagascar, Melmans head suffers from white outlines. The sand which spills from Alexes mouth when he gets washed up on the beach is a silver/white waterfall. In Avatar the noses of the blue people (Na'vi) are blown out.
There are 4 picture presets:
Dynamic
Standard
Natural
Movie.
Movie helps - it tones down the ultra-vivid blown out colouers, but picture still looks far worse than on the B650. Strangely, both Movie and Standard have a brightness of 45, but Movie is much much brighter than standard.
Does anyone have any watchable settings which work with all inputs (poor quality SD, low quality HD (compressed) and Blueray sources?
So far I am very much regretting chaning TVs.
Viewing distance is around 4m.