Picture quality with 55" LED Samsung

Are you using HDMI or component to connect your box to the TV?

I assume your box is set to the right output? Menu->Options->System Options->TV Resolultion and set that to 1080?

@snowcrash Unluckily it was easy when HDNet was still on, they had a great test pattern to set the TV up for Uverse and there has to be changes.

I have a great image on my 42" Panasonic plasma, but I've been on Uverse for more than 6 1/2 years and could adjust w/HDNet test pattern.  We even had a thread how to do it by SomeJoe777, the most knowledgable user ever on Uverse.

But that doesn't help you.  The Daytona 500 looked great here, hopefully some w/55"ers will chime in w/some help directly for you.

Good luck 😉

Chris
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After the last update, many complained about a haze on HDMI connections. I just compared my LED set that I watch on component on HDMI & the HDMI has a definite haze.

The component connection is adjusted to a great picture that matches my Panasonic plasma.

Try tweaking the settings on the TV connected component. It makes a big difference.

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@aviewer wrote:

After the last update, many complained about a haze on HDMI connections. I just compared my LED set that I watch on component on HDMI & the HDMI has a definite haze.

 

The component connection is adjusted to a great picture that matches my Panasonic plasma.

 

Try tweaking the settings on the TV connected component. It makes a big difference.

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Here I got the crushed black on HDMI on my 1225 (also was on the 2250 I had before it), so went to component and have the great picture.

Chris
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Dont bother with checking the HDMI cable or any of that non sense. U-Verse's HD stream is compressed to 6 megs. Your over the air antenna is getting the feed uncompressed and probally at around 16-19megs. U-Verse is notoriously known for having the worst picture quality out of all providers and the bigger the TV, the more you will notice it. I cant understand for the life me why people who sit on here all day and give half thoughtful replies all day to boost their post count wont just admit what everyone else already knows.. its not a tv setting, its not a cable setting.. it's the provider. Some live with it and get used to it, some can't stand it. But that is the TRUTH.

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@jhy1978 wrote:

Dont bother with checking the HDMI cable or any of that non sense. U-Verse's HD stream is compressed to 6 megs. Your over the air antenna is getting the feed uncompressed and probally at around 16-19megs. U-Verse is notoriously known for having the worst picture quality out of all providers and the bigger the TV, the more you will notice it. I cant understand for the life me why people who sit on here all day and give half thoughtful replies all day to boost their post count wont just admit what everyone else already knows.. its not a tv setting, its not a cable setting.. it's the provider. Some live with it and get used to it, some can't stand it. But that is the TRUTH.

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All video providers compress the HD signal to a greater or lesser extent.  6 Mbps is on the highest end of compression.  For some programming it matters very little.  For some programming it matters a lot.  Calibrating your TV will not help much, if any, with the compression issue, but may help with color trueness, etc.

That's incorrect (6 megs on the high end) Here's a little proof of that..

A 500GB hard drive in a u-verse box can record around 150 hours of HD.

A 500GB hard drive in a directv box can record 99 hours of HD.

U-Verse's streams are the lowest of all providers (Cable, Google Fiber, Dish, Directv, etc.)

I'm not bashing U-Verse I had the service and are used to the picture quality but let's not mislead people here by claiming things that arent true.

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@snowcrash wrote:

I've got the U450 tv package and love the service, been here a while but the picture quality on my 55" tv just doesn't look good.

 

I've got an antenna hooked this tv and if you watch the same channel, the antenna is so much more colorful and vibrate.  With uverse, the color is more dull and like it's brighter but with more white light in the picture if that makes sense.  The grass is not has green or the race cars colors are not as bright as like it would be if you were watching the antenna feed.

 

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Just don't think it is the tv because the antenna is beautiful and dvds look good also.  I would love to hook up a Time warner box and Direct tv box up just get a compairson but it's kind of hard to do that.  If the tv wasn't mounted, I guess I could take it to the neighbors and see what it does look like on TWC but that is too much of a hassle.

 

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One other possibility: Make sure that the picture settings on the TV (eg. Movie, Sports, Standard, Color, etc.) for the U-verse input are the same as for the antenna and dvd inputs.  Most TVs have independent settings for each input.

Regards.

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@jhy1978 wrote:

That's incorrect (6 megs on the high end) Here's a little proof of that..

A 500GB hard drive in a u-verse box can record around 150 hours of HD.

A 500GB hard drive in a directv box can record 99 hours of HD.

 

U-Verse's streams are the lowest of all providers (Cable, Google Fiber, Dish, Directv, etc.)

 

I'm not bashing U-Verse I had the service and are used to the picture quality but let's not mislead people here by claiming things that arent true.

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You did not comprehend what I wrote.  I said "was on the highest end of compression."  Meaning higher compression, i.e. more compression, i.e. lower bit rate.

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@jhy1978 wrote:

That's incorrect (6 megs on the high end) Here's a little proof of that..

A 500GB hard drive in a u-verse box can record around 150 hours of HD.

A 500GB hard drive in a directv box can record 99 hours of HD.

 

U-Verse's streams are the lowest of all providers (Cable, Google Fiber, Dish, Directv, etc.)

 

I'm not bashing U-Verse I had the service and are used to the picture quality but let's not mislead people here by claiming things that arent true.

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Guess you never had Uverse Realtime and watched the live streams rates, most HD programs were in the range of what I'm watching now on USA HD.  Realtime is reporting 5,668 Kbps and that is within 100 Kbps of other programs that would record.  😉

Edit:  For the Arris 2250, available HD storage is upto only 139 hours, not 150.

Chris
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http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29891536-In-case-you-were-wondering-the-exact-HD-bitrate

Discussion over.