Samsung ps50a556 manual

And apart from that, there is no real difference in 60Hz or Hz or 50Hz. Neither is a multiple of 24Hz and hence neither actually displays 24p material as it should. Plus not only does it convert the 24Hz to 50, 60, or whatever else, but it does a poor job at doing so, hence the judder.

Conversion of 24p to 50i or 60i or 50p or 60p should result in only minor judder. There is currently an offer for the Most of this thread is about judder in p. Can I ask whether the is just as affected? If so do I get it write that this is independent of the p source, ie that a good blue-ray reader will not solve the problem? According to the FAQ at the beginning of this thread there was a firmware update in the pipeline supposedly fixing some of these problems.

Has it happened yet? Last edited: Dec 16, Is this tv any good thinking of getting it from dixons for also trying to decide should I get a 42" or a 50" inch with a viewing distance of 14 feet please help.. Roll on Friday 2nd. TheMinel Standard Member. I liked the looks and reviews of the Sony S but in John Lewis it was more expensive than in Curry's. All this at the Trafford Centre in Manchester. Let's have a look at their offers I told him what I just did and that I was also looking for the S and that their store had the best offer on it.

He said Upgrading the S firmware as we speak. Galaxy Member. OleOle Standard Member. Im looking at buying the from dixons also! Been trying to find an answer to a couple of things through searching around these forums and am struggling now.

There seems to be mixed reviews as to the actual quality of the picture from sd freeview and dvd, how does everyone find it? What is all this juddering picture stuff? And finally how susceptable is this unit to screen burn as allegedly certain tv's are not as bad as others, panasonic for example?

Trusted Reviews is supported by its audience. If you purchase through links on our site, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Basically, so long as there are people out there wanting to buy both technologies, Samsung will continue to sell both as well.

First impressions, as usual with Samsung, are very promising. The set is also quite easy on the eye in its high-gloss black finish offset by a little semi-translucent strip along the bottom edge.

People looking to fit the PS50A into a custom, fully wired home cinema installation might be annoyed that the set has no RSC control port. But to be honest, we suspect that the majority of such people will be looking a little higher up the AV tree for their big-screen centrepiece.

When it comes to other specifications, the slightly hit and miss tone established so far continues. Failing to really catch the eye, for instance, is a claimed contrast ratio of 30, It probably sounds crazy to diss a figure like this when only a year or two ago the very highest flat TV contrast figures around were between 15, and 20, But it lets itself down in two really daft ways.

Surely it would have been simpler to let you adjust the Preset from the picture and sound sections rather than generate an error message pointing you elsewhere? And it also has the unfortunate side effect of making sources — especially standard definition broadcasts — look distractingly noisy. In fact, if you use any picture presets aside from the Movie option, standard definition pictures can really start to look quite unpleasant, with very exaggerated MPEG artefacts during digital broadcasts.

I wasn't happy about this, but there was little I could do without risking a lower payment if I insisted on cash. And their delivery was exactly when promised, and went completely painlessly despite my serious worry about the very steep and narrow stairway that leads up to my living room.

They were up the stairs and asking where I wanted it placed in 30 seconds flat! Kudos to Curry's, their service was awesome. Now it must be stressed up front that right now I have no way to watch an HD source on it yet. But for now I have only viewed Freeview courtesy of the built-in box inside the telly and a couple of DVDs, via my old player Scart socket and all. I actually use a tabletop portable arial with cute little antennas that you can twiddle s style as my RF source, but it works well enough as I live atop on of the tallest hills in eastern Scotland.

Just like my external FV box now discarded the Sammy's didn't pick up Film 4 during the channel scan. I expected that. Picture quality scaling up from SD looks awesome to me. I am however sitting more than the recommend 3 x your screen width distance away from the TV, so perhaps this is to be expected.

Up very close a few feet , I could see the grain. All in all though, I was extremely happy with the FreeView result. Painless, easy and stunning. I then watched the Dave channel for an hour because it has a fixed logo constantly in the top left corner and I wanted to test for retention.

I had the TV set to do 4x4 pixel-shifting every 3 minutes. After the hour I could see no trace of the Dave logo whatsoever, and I looked hard. Worth noting that I had already turned the settings down to those I mentioned in the previous post. Being interested in looking for judders, I began with the Fellowship of the Ring.

Lots of big pans over large vistas after all. With SD and Scart I saw no judder to speak of. Perhaps once every 10 minutes when the camera panned fast I saw perhaps a one frame stutter, but no more than that, and I was looking hard. I am not even sure if judder should be a problem viewing SD over Scart, but I checked it anyway on the back of SlingShot's earlier post. To cut a long story short, I watched the entire movie, and ended up totally satisfied with the Sammy's SD playback capabilities Next I switched to watching Hallowe'en, a film that is almost entirely set in the dark.

The blacks looks great. Deep and rich, despite the low settings that had been forced on me by the hour gentle break in. And believe me, in Hallowe'en there are plenty of different blacks on display.

Really, the only thing I've seen looking good on an LCD was Finding Nemo, which looks awesome when viewed garish, overly bright and shiny. Next port of call was a Nightmare on Elm Street, mostly because I had just picked up the special edition that day for 3 quid!!

It's another very dark shot movie and again looked dark, rich and deep. It was 3am now though so I lasted about 20 minutes into that before passing out on the couch. And thus my day ended. If I have one complaint thus far, it is this, I believe I could perceive a very slight delay in sound during DVD playback. As if the visual and audio track would go out of sync every so often, for a few milliseconds.

Absolutely minuscule it was, and only now and again. But it did annoy me, on and off, the whole evening, though admittedly I was viewing with an overly critical eye. It's certainly never done it before, that I've noticed. Well that's it. I am in a completely positive mood regarding the new TV right now, though I've only seen its SD capabilities. My HD adventure will begin this weekend when I pick up some HD disks, and will possibly give the Xbox or PS3 a spin as well despite promising the wife I would avoid video games till after the hours break in period.

I shall report more then. Nice review void! Everything i read about this set is very positive, the lip sync issue is something i also had on the ps50q91 samsung and easly fixed by my receivers delay settings.

Also very interested in your hd tests and especially the 24p judder tests. Seems that the psA will be more available and viewable in the stores over here in Holland next week.

Then it's time to post my own review. I didn't notice a delay setting anywhere. However the manual with the PS50A is incredibly bad. It just states the bloomin obvious with 1 million screen shots. Just diving into the menus yourself and reading the on-screen help is superior!

Oh, one setting I forgot to mention that might be vital This is probably offsetting the low contrast and brightness - am I being naughty doing this during the first hours? Great review GV! It's worth pointing out though that your test for judder on not related to 24hz output.

Be great if you could test this when you get your new BluRay player. Regarding gamma I'm not sure how it'll affect the run in, although it's boosting gamma within the confines of the contrast and brightness settings so may not have an adverse effect. I'm interested to know about this lipsync issue.

I did kind of feel the lipsync was out.. What causes this? I need to do some more tests.