Samsung 4K UHD Blu-ray Player UBD-K8500

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by JustThatPenguin

Active def as better viewing angles. With passive, you need to be sitting level with the TV and looking at it straight on. But active glasses usually give me a headache where passive doesn't.

My new Oled is my first passive 3D. I've owned 3 previous active 3d TVs. And I always assumed passive was worse but man was I impressed with the passive 3D on this TV. It actually looked like the menu was protruding past my soundbar!

More depth but also brighter picture and less strain on the eyes. To be honest passive 3D on Oled is superior to 4K

[JustThatPenguin]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

More depth but also brighter picture and less strain on the eyes. To be honest passive 3D on Oled is superior to 4K

Funny thing is, I bought a 4k to get into uhd. But hdr has been a disaster for me. I am loving the blu and 3D up conversions though.

[aaronwt2065]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

With active 3D you have more leeway with viewing angles. With passive 3D you need to be perfectly positioned or you can experience crosstalk. But passive 3D is more comfortable and less strenous on the eyes

For me, I get more eye strain from passive TV sets. After a couple hours with passive TV sets my eyes are fatigued. While with an active set, I can watch for hours and hours without any issues. Plus with active I can sit nice and close and still have the full 3D effect. While as was mentioned with Passive, you need to sit farther back. I think six feet is the minimum distance for a passive set?

[aaronwt2065]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

I can watch passive 3D for hours without eye strain. The other advantage is that passive 3D doesn't render such a dim/dark image, so everything remains bright and clear

Originally Posted by rroeder

Yes your right my 3D is a little darker image, altho Jurassic World and Avatar have nice clean picture. I also only watch 3D at night when my room is dark, that helps as well.

My Sony UHD set has a setting that gets enabled with 3D, to increase the brightness to compensate for the active 3D glasses. With my DLP set I use one of the memory settings that has a higher brightness set, for when I watch 3D.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by aaronwt2065

My Sony UHD set has a setting that gets enabled with 3D, to increase the brightness to compensate for the active 3D glasses. With my DLP set I use one of the memory settings that has a higher brightness set, for when I watch 3D.

Same with RF glasses for my Sony. But we still lose a good chunk of brightness from 2D

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[Brahby]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Passive 3D?

sorry, should have specified. yes passive 3d. i have the sony 65s990a.

[rroeder]

Originally Posted by aaronwt2065

My Sony UHD set has a setting that gets enabled with 3D, to increase the brightness to compensate for the active 3D glasses. With my DLP set I use one of the memory settings that has a higher brightness set, for when I watch 3D.

I have it set at Auto for the glasses brightness setting. It does go into Cinema picture mode on 3D movies, maybe I should try it on standard picture mode for a brighter image??

[Sman]

Originally Posted by rroeder

It's a smoother cleaner image, or at least that's the way I would describe it. That's the way it's supposed to look tho, you get more detail if it's upscaled by the player but there are side effects as well.

Of course it's subjective, but I would rather let the TV do the upscaling

To be honest I just can't really tell a difference between regular 1080p and my TV's upscaling. But with the player my Blu-Rays look near 4K quality. What side effects do you see by using the player's upscaling and are there any disadvantages by using the player's ?

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by rroeder

I have it set at Auto for the glasses brightness setting. It does go into Cinema picture mode on 3D movies, maybe I should try it on standard picture mode for a brighter image??

Play around with it, until you find the brightest mode. Also in your TV 3D picture settings, use Gamma 2.2 if you dont have that selected, increase brightness by just 1 or 2 notches as well as backlight level

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Sman

To be honest I just can't really tell a difference between regular 1080p and my TV's upscaling. But with the player my Blu-Rays look near 4K quality. What side effects do you see by using the player's upscaling and are there any disadvantages by using the player's ?

More artifacts, less natural/organic images, skin tones too grainy, near black noise

[Sman]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

More artifacts, less natural/organic images, skin tones too grainy, near black noise

Are you sure it doesn't depend on the TV because I don't notice any artifacts or noise when I let the player upscale.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Sman

Are you sure it doesn't depend on the TV because I don't notice any artifacts or noise when I let the player upscale.

We dont have the same TV model so yes, that could be one reason. I know that with my 4K Oled TV does a better job than the player at upscaling

[Sman]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

We dont have the same TV model so yes, that could be one reason. I know that with my 4K Oled TV does a better job than the player at upscaling

Yeah I'm sure an OLED upscales better than a Vizio. As long as I don't see any negatives I'll stick with the player. That way I don't have to switch back and forth when I play my 4K Blu-Rays.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Sman

Yeah I'm sure an OLED upscales better than a Vizio. As long as I don't see any negatives I'll stick with the player. That way I don't have to switch back and forth when I play my 4K Blu-Rays.

So do you have your player set on Auto for resolution?

[Sman]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

So do you have your player set on Auto for resolution?

Yes

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Sman

Yes

I keep mine at 1080 and switch to 2160 for 4K discs, in order to let TV upscale. No big deal as 80% of what I watch is in 1080 anyway, for now

[Sman]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

I keep mine at 1080 and switch to 2160 for 4K discs, in order to let TV upscale. No big deal as 80% of what I watch is in 1080 anyway, for now

Same here but I prefer my player's upscaling so auto is perfect to me. I feel like if I spent as much money as I did on the player I might as well get as much out of it as I can. If I leave it on 1080p I might as well just use my regular Sony player.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Sman

Same here but I prefer my player's upscaling so auto is perfect to me. I feel like if I spent as much money as I did on the player I might as well get as much out of it as I can. If I leave it on 1080p I might as well just use my regular Sony player.

Do you have both players connected? I too have a Sony BDP6500 connected to my AVR, along with the Samsung UHD player

[Sman]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Do you have both players connected? I too have a Sony BDP6500 connected to my AVR, along with the Samsung UHD player

Nope just the Samsung. My Sony is staying connected to my Vizio E420i-B0.

[RockyIII]

i have both Sony DBP and Samsung UHD players connected via Denon AVR. I'm too attached to Sony BDP to get rid of it, that thing is a mini tank...Plus it helps having two players when switching from one movie selection to another