So i recently got a 4K 43 inch samsung tv and it is a new model.

Out of the box I wasnt very impressed.The sound sucked and the picture was so dim and dark but now I have a LG soundbar with a built in subwoofer (And it is so awesome) and i had to turn off "Power Consumption energy saver" in the TV settings.So the picture looks great ONLY when im either watching Bluray/4K discs or streaming movies and shows from Peacock and HBO Max

thing is I have A LOT of dvds and i would like to watch them once in a while and not stream so much but when i watch the dvds on this NEW TV all the dvds look terrible...they are grainiy. I have done all the tweaking in the settings that I can do

Why do the dvds look so bad? I didnt have that problem on my old 4k tv that was a 50 inch

Is it a bad 4k cable? If i bought a upscaled bluray player,would the dvds look better and not so grainy?

Never owned a TV on my own, but I was the biggest TV junkie from like age 4 to 14. I was like Jim Carrey's character in The Cable Guy, I slammed TV like uncut heroin all day all night. The fam still pelts me with TV questions whenever I visit.

Don't think anyone in the fam has 4k, but around the time they upgraded to 1080p they needed to replace an old DVD player. Convinced ma to splurge the extra 20 bucks on a cheap upconvert/upscaled Blu Ray player, and those old DVDs look like a million bucks on the 1080p set. They look glorious.

My uncle started having problems with his DVD player a couple years later. He had a better, newer TV model than my mom, but he was still rocking those DVD/VHS hybrids that were all the rage in the early 00s... Hopefully nobody still buys those, those are consistently the worst DVD players ever. Everyone was trying to penny-pinch believing VHS will still have purpose in their home entertainment systems, but uhh, c'mon.. who's putting on a commercial VHS with a DVD equivalent these days? VHS died 23 years ago.

Anyway, uncle's DVD player looked like friggin' VHS quality on his superior, brand new TV set. Streaming looked crisp, cable was crisp, DVDs looked like YouTube circa 2007.


Research a good one for 4k sets and give an upscaled Blu Ray player a shot.

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Do you still got full frame DVDs btw?

When DVDs came out people would get really angry at this new fangled Widescreen format. Like I tried to convince everyone in my family tree that full frame chops off half the screen, Widescreen is director's intent, and TVs were moving toward Widescreen anyway. I had print-out examples and everything. Half the fam was like F-U, punkass, full screen lyfe,baby, "I paid hundreds for this TV set, the entire picture damn well better be filled completely."

This was 100% the common perspective back in like 2003. Always wonder if all those people now sit at home watching a pile of full frame DVDs they paid hundreds on, now stretched vertically to fill up their Widescreen sets.

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Maybe play around with the color standards (BT2020, BT709, REC 2020 etc.) and HDR settings.
Also look up up some calibration settings for your TV model for the best experience in your setup and home enviroment.

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MrSharon said:

Yeah I still have some full frame DVDs.I never minded on the picture appearing in the middle with black bars on the side.I never stretch out the picture because it just doesn't look right to me it actually makes the picture a little distorted. I believe I will give a upscaled blu-ray player a shot I swear idk how people decide what to watch now days in their streaming apps.I actually spend more time deciding than watching I can relate to your "The cable guy" comment.I was that way too. I will give you a example.Back in the middle 90's I was 7 years old and my grandfather was the ONLY one in the family who had direct TV sattelite.It was such a big deal back then and I actually thought it was the best thing in the world.Back then there was great tv.VH1 actually played music videos,cartoon network showed Space Ghost,Nickelodeon had great shows like Rugrats,catdog, Doug and mtv would show Beavis and Butt-Head at 11 pm i think it was.So I started watching VH1 ALOT and started to learn about bands from the 80's. We were in music class in school and my teacher played "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen for the class.When he got done playing it for us he asked the class if we knew who sings that song and what is it called? I could tell he was positive no one would know.I was the ONLY one in my class to raise my hand and ell him the correct answer. I told him and he is like "how did you know that"? I told him I watch a lot of VH1 sir To this day I am still proud of that moment.The teacher was also amazed that I was so into Prince music.He never played it but one day I got to see a playlist he had on his computer."Gett Off" was on it Years later the music teacher got caught trying to sexually molest a student

I spend eons scrolling through The Criterion Channel and Prime - and then end up turning to The Big Bang Theory or Everybody Loves Raymond because it's almost bedtime, anyway.

MrSharon said:

Any of you think it might be the HDMI cable? They have 8k HDMI cables now days

no, it's a 4K TV so a HDMI 2.0 cable is more than enough.
a 8K cable won't make a difference.

Who's the fool sayin' "now days"???

It's "nowadays"!!!

Long story short: You paid for 4K on a TV on which you wouldn't be able to see the difference, anyway.

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nayroo2002 said: