settings on 4069F won't hold and color is lousy I love everything about the look, but when I try to set the color, or light-it doesn't hold the settings the next time I turn it on. I have totally screwed up the color on the "component" setting and the "cable" setting is much better. What am I doing wrong? Am I getting HD or what. Very frustrated in Manhattan settings on 4069F won't hold and color is lousy I love everything about the look, but when I try to set the color, or light-it doesn't hold the settings the next time I turn it on. I have... » Read More settings on 4069F won't hold and color is lousy I love everything about the look, but when I try to set the color, or light-it doesn't hold the settings the next time I turn it on. I have totally screwed up the color on the "component" setting and the "cable" setting is much better. What am I doing wrong? Am I getting HD or what. Very frustrated in Manhattan « Show Less
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Sounds like you might be in shop mode. Try this and see if it helps: 1.Select TV input (one of the antennas) 2.Press the MENU button on your remote 3.select SETUP and press ENTER 4.select PLUG & PLAY and press ENTER 5.select HOME option and press ENTER 6.Exit out after selecting home to prevent from rescanning channels
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I have the same problem. However, when I press ENTER on SETUP, the PLUG & PLAY cannot be selected. Can anyone help me?Thanks and appreciate all your help=)
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Thanks so much-you are absolutely right. It makes all the difference to be in the home mode. I didn't even know how I got into the shop mode. Thx again.
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Hey Alex, The "gamer" presets all have a really high gamma setting thats locked and cant be adjusted. You need to set the monitor to the normal profile and then change the gamma. That fixed my issue with color and washed out images. To go to the different profiles just open the osd and where u select the gamer profiles go up. This took me about two days to figure out, hope this helps :D.
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Not sure of your question, I found reviews of this TV on CNET and TWEEK TV, mentioning these because they have settings for fine tuning the color settings to where they work good. Samsung does not do this very well. For myself once I had the color settings tuned in I liked this TV a lot. Did not like the lack of Samsung support on getting the settings set up, but believe this is something found across the board. I Will say that the football games are awesome when set up correctly. hope this helps, if not clarify with question.
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I have spent many hours trying to get picture details set for good picture. Was so relieved to see your mention of July 8th review and have thoroughly searched and a July 8th review is not available currently. There is a July 9th (as best I recall) lengthy review that mentions black tweaking must be done, but makes no mention of the actual settings. I recall seeing several weeks ago a reviewer gave all of his/her specific settings. If anyone can suggest further settings info, I'll appreciate greatly. I am considering returning my LN32A450 this week if I can't get more satisfactory settings. I have spent many hours trying to get picture details set for good picture. Was so relieved to see your mention of July 8th review and have thoroughly searched and a July 8th review is not available currently. There is a July 9th (as best I recall) lengthy review that mentions black tweaking must be done, but makes no mention of the actual settings. I recall seeing several weeks ago a reviewer gave all of his/her specific settings. If anyone can suggest further settings info, I'll appreciate greatly. I am considering returning my LN32A450 this week if I can't get more satisfactory settings.
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I think I found an answer to the issue. The problem I had is that I changed the settings immediately to "Dynamic," which raises the brightness significantly, and is only supposed to be used in a very bright room. When I put the settings back to normal everything looks great and the side light issues disappear. I guess I just need to listen to the suggestions of what the different picture modes are for.
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You seem to have chosen "display model/store" mode when you first turned on your set, it reverts back to defaults every 10 minutes or so in that mode. Recommend that you check your manual, I believe there is a way to adjust that. also, check avsforum for correct settings for this display (check the 50" thread, the two sets are basically identical, so most activity is there). Found it, it is in the setup menu. good luck.
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Rich, why do you feel you really need to tweek this TV so much. You stated that my earlier reply back to you, was not useful. Do you own this tv? IF not, no wonder you didn't like my reply. This television only involves minor tweeking of the Contrast and the backlight. This will drastically result in a better picture than those 3 standard settings. Do not mess with the color pallettes or anything elso at that matter. They are set perfectly to accomadate Toshiba's hd dvd players and so forth. hd input source from hd dish network/direct tv also looks great. If you are really into tweeking your set, my guess is that it will only hurt you with this tv. Toshiba really did a great job on this t.v. Not much messing around. It reallylooks wonderful straight out of the box. I would just set the contrast and backlight. thats it!!!
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Hi! No matter what angle or what dimmer setting - I can't read the display. It seems that the back lighting is too bright and everything is lit. Instead of 8:30 like the picture on the left here says... my clock reads 8:88
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Out of the box, the TV settings are "vivid". At the very least you'll want to set it to "standard" under picture settings/picture mode. This wont fix the black problem by itself, but then under advanced settings there are a couple of adjustments that will, namely "gamma" and "black corrector". Play with these a bit and you'll get better black detail. If you'd like a full listing of user calibration settings for viewing in a darkened room, here is a link that will give you those presets. Try them, and if you like it, you're done! Otherwise, play around a bit with the settings I mentioned to achieve the desired results. Here's the link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10060430-1.html?tag=mncol;txt I hope you find this helpful, I'm using these settings myself and am pretty happy with the results. Be warned, however, once you reveal black detail, you may notice unevenness in the black uniformity of the screen. Good Luck!
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As far as i know there is no way to change the setting. I've never had that problem. Wonder if something is wrong with yours?
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No I have not seen that issue even up close. I have although done some messing around with the picture settings and by no means am I an expert. I would try some different settings or return it for a new one because of the price we have all had to pay for it. It could have even been damaged during shipping or not have set long enough before it was turned on the first time. I have the exact tv and the blacks are deep blacks and the whites are true as well as grey and all other colors. I let mine sit for eight hours after it was mounted on the tv stand before I turned it on for the first time.
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Maybe the language but the comment is true. try to get any satifaction from Creative and you will turn blue. I bought a Zen V Plus and the display crapped out..went black. This is a design flaw. Does Creative back up their product? Sure they want to charge you $25 to send it in and then decide if they want to fix it(costing more $) or replace it if they decide you didn't do anything wrong. What a joke. Don't spend money on a poor product! Buy just about anything else and you'll be happier.
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I changed the color setting on my blu-ray and the difference was hugely significant!!!!!. My cable DVR does not let me change color settings, so my cable movie dark scenes are still pretty terrible
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I had a similar problem but not with blues. The flesh tones of people on the screen was red and I couldn't change it. My tv then would have flashes of green screen and I had to turn off the tv to clear the screen. Since my tv was new, I had it exchanged for another Seiki. Will see how this one holds up.
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I had the same question about the G10. I asked the BB guy and he said for some reason the stores try to sell the LCDs more and the G10 was set at a less bright setting, appearing less attractive to a buyer (??). He also changed the setting to VIVID and the PQ looked as bright as anything else. I did a lot of research online and both G10 and G15 are hands down the best plasma for the money, if you care about true picture quality and not just think brighter is better. I'm monitoring the price of G15 to order mine.
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I also just got this tv & am having the same issue. It's very distracting & is driving me crazy! Im actually considering sending it back & going back to my sony sxrd. Any help would be much appreciated because i do love the color depth on this tv & hate to get rid of it.
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Try turning the brightness down and the contrast up and also adjust the color so it looks as real as possible. Also you can change the energy saver setting to make to lighter or darker. Offhand my settings on dynamic mode are:Contrast: 95Brightness: 32Color: 64Sharpness: 90Energy Saver: Level 1