Samsung 4K UHD Blu-ray Player UBD-K8500

[gates70]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

It's not a slight upgrade, but you wont know until you test the two discs (UHD and HD) on a same scene for yourself, preferably a dark scene. You will change your mind

I have.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

You are correct about the dark picture but it is fixable. I did a lot of A-B on the Revenant UHD and BD between 2 players and discovered the Samsung UHD is outputting 0-255 no matter what you set for color format (YUV, RGB std, RGB enc). If I set the black level to "high" on my TV (55EG9100 OLED), the details aren't crushed and match the standard BD. Not ideal but considering I have less than 10 UHD movies, I can deal with it.

I tried that too. All you are doing is raising black, the majority of details are still gone, and now you lost 100% black

[RockyIII]

Check post #3873....When you use the Samsung player with a 4K movie connected to a non-4K TV/projetcor you are literally losing 1/3 of the picture!

[Patsfan123]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

I tried that too. All you are doing is raising black, the majority of details are still gone, and now you lost 100% black

No, it looks like it should. The details do come back and black is still black even on OLED.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

No, it looks like it should. The details do come back and black is still black even on OLED.

Did you change RGB at 5IRE or raised brightness by a few clicks? From what you posted you only changed black level from low to high

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[Patsfan123]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Did you change RGB at 5IRE or raised brightness by a few clicks? From what you posted you only changed black level from low to high

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I only changed the black level setting.

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[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

I only changed the black level setting.

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Me and you have LG Oled, what about those with HD 1080 TV without a balck level feature, who want to use Samsung UHD + UHD discs on their television?

[Patsfan123]

My 2010 plasma has the setting as well. It should be an easy fix for Samsung through if we can submit a bug report.

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[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

My 2010 plasma has the setting as well. It should be an easy fix for Samsung through if we can submit a bug report.

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I dont think Samsung TVs come with a high/low black level function unless Samsung calls it by another name

[Patsfan123]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

I dont think Samsung TVs come with a high/low black level function unless Samsung calls it by another name

It's called HDMI black level on Samsung TVs.

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[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by Patsfan123

It's called HDMI black level on Samsung TVs.

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Regular bluray still looks better on a non-4K display than the 4K disc downconverted.

By the way, any of you uses CEC? I have it disabled, it is a nightmare to have it switched on!

[rroeder]

Does anyone have the link to the universal remote folks are using for the player? I looked thru the thread some and didn't see it.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by rroeder

Does anyone have the link to the universal remote folks are using for the player? I looked thru the thread some and didn't see it.

I think you can find it on Amazon and eBay

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[Bodyslide]

Originally Posted by rroeder

Does anyone have the link to the universal remote folks are using for the player? I looked thru the thread some and didn't see it.

Here's the one I have:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-New-Remot...QAAOSwLnBXVPmZ


I also asked the mods to add this on the first post to make it alittle easier to find.

[RockyIII]

Couldn't have Samsung just put that same remote in the box with the UHD player? So much more pratcical and easy to use!

[Patsfan123]

Originally Posted by rroeder

Does anyone have the link to the universal remote folks are using for the player? I looked thru the thread some and didn't see it.

Any modern universal remote will work. I'd just find one that meets your needs.

[rroeder]

Thx for the info and the link!

[hazzad]

Originally Posted by RockyIII

Regular bluray still looks better on a non-4K display than the 4K disc downconverted.

By the way, any of you uses CEC? I have it disabled, it is a nightmare to have it switched on!

Cec is great. Use it on all my devices. Easy way of getting all devices to turn on

[JustThatPenguin]

Originally Posted by hazzad

Cec is great. Use it on all my devices. Easy way of getting all devices to turn on

What's is cec? My lg tv remote controls my samsung uhd player too so that's all I've been using.

[RockyIII]

Originally Posted by hazzad

Cec is great. Use it on all my devices. Easy way of getting all devices to turn on

Or to get devices to turn on even when you don't want them to