Hopper 3 terrible HD picture
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Apparently not. Never had anything like that pop up on my Samsung JS9500, even when watching Amazon 4K/HDR content.
[On edit: I missed that you asked about the menus and not the channels]
On the menus, I didn't notice until I tried the white guide background option and that was indeed BLINDING.
But since it is an OLED, there is no (zero!) leakage of backlight and so the second option of the guide as black is simply stunning. If I wanted to go back and see what my old Sony LCD with ccfl would look like, I can go to the standard setting and bring back a gray background instead of jet black.
I still have access to the "Brightness" setting and lowered it a few notches. Still a long way to go with this learning curve, etc, but to my eyes, the Hopper 3 is a noticeable picture improvement over the HWS...at least when connected to a (my) 4K TV.
PS. Scott...want to do a sticky thread about what the H3 does with 4k TVs?
HDR (10-bit color) is listed in the spec sheet for the Hopper 3 and it was mentioned in several CES reviews. Clearly the Hopper 3 has to have the ability to send the metadata to the TV telling it to enable that mode, the question is when does it turn it on? It seems for the LG TV it's enabling it all the time. Perhaps it's only supposed to enable it when you're watching HDR content, which would make more sense? From what I've seen the HDR was only mentioned in relation to VOD 4k content but that could be just for now.
Aaron
Aaron
That's my guess. I will also guess that either Dish or LG will make the necessary changes to only trigger it when the material has been encoded with HDR specifically.
I can't say that it does anything except my H3 is clearly a better picture than the HWS it replaced. Either its just because its a new sat box with a better Broadcom processor, or the HDR is doing something.
I will add something that I think is different but don't really remember.
On the LG picture settings there is a Deep Color option that I think I remember being greyed out before, but is now selectable.
I haven't DARED to click on it.
I will add something that I think is different but don't really remember.
On the LG picture settings there is a Deep Color option that I think I remember being greyed out before, but is now selectable.
I haven't DARED to click on it.
Deep Color is just a marketing name for 10-bit or 12-bit color. I'd check it out, can't possibly hurt anything. Maybe it will let you tweak how the TV works when 10-bit color is enabled by the Hopper.
Aaron
That's a point. Maybe it will give me back control over the Contrast and OLED Backlight controls.
Will check tomorrow when everybody is gone and I have the time to fix whatever I screw up.
First, for Samsung, you have to have a tv that supports HDR. A JU9000 with a SEK-3500 upgrade, or a JS8500 and up. You have to set in your inputs, the UHD setting to on. Then that HDMI input will automatically enable HDR when available.
My Samsung js7000 60 inch supports HDR quality and it had no option. It has an hdmi uhd color on/off whatever that does.
Yes, you are correct. My bad, especially because my parents just bought a UN60JS7000. The JS7000 will do HDR. The UHD setting will enable HDR for each input..
So should hdmi udh color be on or off? The default is off. I can't tell a difference with it on. Some forums say it will create problems when on when it shouldn't be.
It should be set to on. You'll only see any difference, when the source material is broadcast in HDR.
I have to admit that the H3 picture seems to be on the soft side compared to my 722 on the same TV. I have actually noticed that before I found this thread.
I wouldn't call it terrible or DVD quality. It is better than a DVD for sure.
I wouldn't call it terrible or DVD quality. It is better than a DVD for sure.
finally after extensive picture calibration setting changes got the picture looking good on both tv's. I hope so at least I may go home tonight and find my head was playing tricks on me. I spent so much time on it I just wanted to imagine life with it looking better lol
I just noticed I have a hybrid twin EA.2 switch. Maybe that's because my setup required a wing dish for local HD in Cincinnati, but I thought every one was saying it should be a hybrid solo?
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