NoxTek
The Geek Redneck
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So I took advantage of the Black Friday sales last year and picked up a 50" Samsung UN50MU6070 from Best Buy. This is basically the same unit as a 6300 but they deleted Bluetooth, one HDMI port (so it has two instead of 3), and it doesn't come with a smart remote.
It was a 'sidegrade' from the UN50JU6500 I've been using since Christmas of 2015, and my reasons for upgrading were MUCH improved input lag numbers, better contrast ratio, and support for HDR.
I just setup the TV today (finally) and I figured I'd post my thoughts for anyone interested:
As I said, I only first set it up today. I'm still trying to figure out why the colors aren't as vibrant out of the box as they were on the older JU6500. I've been over everything... like I said above I had to drop the red, green, and blue offsets in the Picture -> Advanced -> White Balance -> 2-point menu. Dropping them all to -20 seems to get the closest results to the JU6500 color levels.
I'd be interested to know who else got one of these, and your preferred settings.
It was a 'sidegrade' from the UN50JU6500 I've been using since Christmas of 2015, and my reasons for upgrading were MUCH improved input lag numbers, better contrast ratio, and support for HDR.
I just setup the TV today (finally) and I figured I'd post my thoughts for anyone interested:
- Once configured properly for PC use (Renaming the input on the TV to PC, enabling UHD Deep Color, and changing the Nvidia control panel for RGB, 4:4:4 chroma, and full range) the colors are notably less vibrant than the JU6500 was. I'm not sure what's up with that, but I was able to fix it by going into the advanced picture settings and lowering the R,G,B offsets to -20 for each channel.
- Input lag when in PC mode is notably better!
- The contrast ratio is quite a bit better than the 2 year old JU6500 it replaced... it's actually quite nice!
- All HDMI inputs (all two of them in this case) support 4:4:4 chroma / UHD Deep Color. Previous generations of the value oriented 6 series only supported it on one of their HDMI channels.
- HDR10 seems to be a bit of a fustercluck when in PC mode. Supposedly in order to get HDR to work you need to lower the chroma down to 4:2:2 or 4:2:0 because of HDMI 2.x bandwidth limitations. I tried but was never able to get it to work. It doesn't matter much anyway because 'HDR' on the current 6 series sets is really sort of a pseudo HDR.
- The 2017 Tizen platform is fairly nice. It's a bit flashier compared to the 2015 era sets but by and large it's a similar feel and the basic menu structure is laid out the same.
As I said, I only first set it up today. I'm still trying to figure out why the colors aren't as vibrant out of the box as they were on the older JU6500. I've been over everything... like I said above I had to drop the red, green, and blue offsets in the Picture -> Advanced -> White Balance -> 2-point menu. Dropping them all to -20 seems to get the closest results to the JU6500 color levels.
I'd be interested to know who else got one of these, and your preferred settings.