[i love sky]

I have a 40in Samsung smart TV and a Tivo box and for some reason when there is fast movement on screen it goes blurred for what i would say is 1 second.

its like each time there is fast movement on screen its trying to focus like a camera does.

i have everything turned off that could cause it but its sill doing it and its giving me sore heads.

so what could be the problem?

[evil c]

You may need to reduce the Sharpness in the Basic Picture settings (E-Manual pages 91-92) and adjust the Motion Plus in the Picture Options settings (E-Manual pages 97-98). The standard recommendation in nearly all the Samsung reviews I've read is to set this to Clear but I use a Custom setting myself.

Turn off the Edge Enhancement too.

Link to download E-Manual here, if anyone's interested: http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/t...0SBXXU-support

[i love sky]

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Originally Posted by evil c

You may need to reduce the Sharpness in the Basic Picture settings (E-Manual pages 91-92) and adjust the Motion Plus in the Picture Options settings (E-Manual pages 97-98). The standard recommendation in nearly all the Samsung reviews I've read is to set this to Clear but I use a Custom setting myself.

Turn off the Edge Enhancement too.

Link to download E-Manual here, if anyone's interested: http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/t...0SBXXU-support

Many thanks for that.

Can you please tell me how you have got your settings as since ive had the tv ive never been able to get the settings just right.

sometimes its too bright then too dark.

does my head in.

[evil c]

I'd like to help you but my TV is a 2011 D6530 and so will have completely different picture settings. Honestly it would be no use to you at all. If it's any consolation I still have trouble with too dark and too light and it does my head in as well. I yearn for the old CRT days when all I had was brightness and contrast and after initially setting up the TV that was it.

One tip I would pass on is not to update the firmware as the one time I did it totally messed up the settings I had spent months fine tuning. I hadn't realised that it resets ALL the settings to the new firmware default. I only did it to help someone on here and I have rued that day ever since.

If I'm watching a blu-ray then at the start of the film I pause it and fiddle with the settings but with Freeview HD I can't be bothered most of the time to get it spot on because outside broadcasts look different to studio broadcasts which look different to flagship series like David Attenborough and F1 where the producers take more care with the picture quality.

I always used to have Motion Plus set to Clear but I noticed recently that vertical rolling end credits were blurring and horizontal scrolling news bites were juddering. I was having problems with sparkling as well, caused by things like shiny suits and black and white engravings, and motion blurring when the camera panned across countryside from above.

It took me quite a bit of time with the Motion Plus in Custom to get the settings just right to more or less correct the credits and newsbites, but I puzzled long and hard about what was causing the sparkling and motion blurring.

After much Googling I finally found out this was caused by the Sharpness setting over processing the picture (the article also mentioned Edge Enhancement as a possible culprit but I already had this switched off) and so I slowly reduced it until I completely fixed the motion blur but I still haven't managed to nail the sparkling.

It's a right royal pain in the bum setting up the TV much as it has been gradually eliminating all the warning and error conditions in the Windows event logs on my laptop.

[i love sky]

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Originally Posted by evil c

I'd like to help you but my TV is a 2011 D6530 and so will have completely different picture settings. Honestly it would be no use to you at all. If it's any consolation I still have trouble with too dark and too light and it does my head in as well. I yearn for the old CRT days when all I had was brightness and contrast and after initially setting up the TV that was it.

One tip I would pass on is not to update the firmware as the one time I did it totally messed up the settings I had spent months fine tuning. I hadn't realised that it resets ALL the settings to the new firmware default. I only did it to help someone on here and I have rued that day ever since.

If I'm watching a blu-ray then at the start of the film I pause it and fiddle with the settings but with Freeview HD I can't be bothered most of the time to get it spot on because outside broadcasts look different to studio broadcasts which look different to flagship series like David Attenborough and F1 where the producers take more care with the picture quality.

I always used to have Motion Plus set to Clear but I noticed recently that vertical rolling end credits were blurring and horizontal scrolling news bites were juddering. I was having problems with sparkling as well, caused by things like shiny suits and black and white engravings, and motion blurring when the camera panned across countryside from above.

It took me quite a bit of time with the Motion Plus in Custom to get the settings just right to more or less correct the credits and newsbites, but I puzzled long and hard about what was causing the sparkling and motion blurring.

After much Googling I finally found out this was caused by the Sharpness setting over processing the picture (the article also mentioned Edge Enhancement as a possible culprit but I already had this switched off) and so I slowly reduced it until I completely fixed the motion blur but I still haven't managed to nail the sparkling.

It's a right royal pain in the bum setting up the TV much as it has been gradually eliminating all the warning and error conditions in the Windows event logs on my laptop.

Many thanks for that.

I get the same problem as you with sparkling and also when on dark screens it looks like its snowing.

so are you saying try to lower the sharpness to stop that?

also on some screens i get what looks like Fog and cant get rid of that as well even HD channels.

it happens more on SD channels and cant get rid of it.

i have Virgin media for this TV but dont think its that.

[evil c]

Yes lower Sharpness to stop sparkling. I don't like the sound of the snow effect or the fog as I've never had either of those things. I've always associated snow with a bad signal/low signal strength from the aerial or a bad connection somewhere in the loop. Go into the TV manual tuning setup menu and see what signal strength you are getting on the UHF channels. I haven't a clue what could be causing fog though.

I don't know how Tivo works but if you connect the roof aerial to it then disconnect the box and connect to the TV instead. Check to see if the problems occur via DVD/blu-ray too. Disconnect then reconnect all your cable connections and if possible use different cables. If after all this you can establish that the snow and fog problems are occuring on all sources and not just terrestrial Freeview then it sounds like the TV is faulty.

[i love sky]

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Originally Posted by evil c

Yes lower Sharpness to stop sparkling. I don't like the sound of the snow effect or the fog as I've never had either of those things. I've always associated snow with a bad signal/low signal strength from the aerial or a bad connection somewhere in the loop. Go into the TV manual tuning setup menu and see what signal strength you are getting on the UHF channels. I haven't a clue what could be causing fog though.

I don't know how Tivo works but if you connect the roof aerial to it then disconnect the box and connect to the TV instead. Check to see if the problems occur via DVD/blu-ray too. Disconnect then reconnect all your cable connections and if possible use different cables. If after all this you can establish that the snow and fog problems are occuring on all sources and not just terrestrial Freeview then it sounds like the TV is faulty.

Many thanks for that.

when i change the settings to Dynamic the fog is not there but is in standard.