PS3 Upscaler Problems - Fog & Dark Scenes

[tilallr1]

Hi There,

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but this has started to really annoy me alot. I have a Samsung DLP 56" HL-R5662W. On certain movies, during dark sequences or fog sequences I notice a sort of mosaic/pixelation form around the lighted areas. It looks aweful. This problem never occured using my Pioneer player using the same DVD's. Wondering if anyone knows if its the TV or the PS3 settings that is causing this. Some detail of black is also lost off Blu-ray discs as well. Such as Harry Potter 4. In the underwater sequences you can see alot of this mosaic effect.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

On the Samsung, I have setup it on Cinema mode with DNIE enabled.

On the PS3, I have it set to 1080i (Since 720p looked really bad), with:

DVD Upscaler - Normal
BD/DVD Video Output format (HDMI) - Y Pb / Cb Pr / Cr
BD 1080p 24hz Output (HDMI) - Automatic
Cross Colour Reduction Filter - Off
RGB Full Range (HDMI) - Full
Y Pb/Cb Pr/Cr Super-White (HDMI) - On

Also set:

Frame Noise Reduction to 3
Block Noise Reduction to 3

Now the Block Noise sounds like the problems as it set to reduce mosaic-like block noise displayed on the screen. But increasing really has done very little.

Any advise?

[DezNutz]

check the RGB Full Range discussion, it appears your TV may not support full, and thus you are losing details in your blacks. Try setting RGB to limited and see if that changes your appearance of your black settings.

[daisuke149]

not sure what the issue is here in particular.. but ushould turn DNiE off anyhow. its no good on any samsung for any setting

[tilallr1]

Thanks guys I will give those suggestions a try and get back to you tonight.

P.S. Why is DNiE bad exactly?

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by tilallr1

Thanks guys I will give those suggestions a try and get back to you tonight.

P.S. Why is DNiE bad exactly?

i just know that generally all the "Dnie", "DNR" are pretty much marketing gimmicks to get the non-tech savy coolaid drinking consumers (not us ) to buy TV's, and thus have limited or even negative functionality. however, i will say the IMF guy who calibrated my samsung DLP did leave Dnie on since it was noticeably lower pixelation for some BD's.

[tilallr1]

Yeh. I remember turning it off once with my Pioneer DVD player and the picture looked aweful compared to when it was on. But that was via Component. Now with the PS3 via HDMI I wonder if the DNiE is screwing up the picture so how.

[Go Blue]

All "professional" calibrations I have seen say to turn it off, but I leave it on since it definatley improves the picture on my TV.