What picture and audio setting do people use?what kind of blu ray player?

[Dwayne Hicks]

Originally Posted by starr

I've been using a PS3 for BR ever since BR came out. honestly never tried anything else.

for my tv, I tend to like bright, vivd images.
for sound, I have a Yamaha 1065 7.1 (7 mirage, 2 Yamaha bass, recently switched my two fronts for floorstanding 3-way JBLs)
my brother and I were constantly adjusting the outputs until we switched the spaekers. spent a good hour playing with everything until it was perfect. clear voices and very heavy bass.

PS3/4 has the highest processing power and best grain resolve of any player I've tested.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Dwayne Hicks

PS3/4 has the highest processing power and best grain resolve of any player I've tested.

Grain resolve? Do you even know what you're talking about here?

[Dwayne Hicks]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Grain resolve? Do you even know what you're talking about here?

Yes, absolutely! Most $60 players have so little processing power that they cannot resolve any grain period. The picture looks smooth, like it has been through DNR. And sometimes full of smeary artifacts like a You Tube Video, the water painting effect.

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Grain resolve?

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Dwayne Hicks

Yes, absolutely! Most $60 players have so little processing power that they cannot resolve any grain period. The picture looks smooth, like it has been through DNR. And sometimes full of smeary artifacts like a You Tube Video, the water painting effect.

I think you may be confusing players with displays. Most BD players I have tested, even the off brand ones, do a good job with HD feeds. The problem many people have is they have their DNR or mosquito noise reduction turned on.

[Dwayne Hicks]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

I think you may be confusing players with displays. Most BD players I have tested, even the off brand ones, do a good job with HD feeds. The problem many people have is they have their DNR or mosquito noise reduction turned on.

My display is a 4K XBR and Blus via PS4 look sensational. I also have a $50 region free Seiki and a $80 Sony, model number escapes me at the moment, but it's about 2-3 years old. The cheap players have very limited menus, but everything that can be turned off is. Both cheap players are smear central. And the bigger the TV, the worse it looks.

Oppo is a nice player for picture. Panasonic makes many good players. Xbox One is also great.

Just going by what I'm seeing.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Dwayne Hicks

My display is a 4K XBR and Blus via PS4 look sensational. I also have a $50 region free Seiki and a $80 Sony, model number escapes me at the moment, but it's about 2-3 years old. The cheap players have very limited menus, but everything that can be turned off is. Both cheap players are smear central. And the bigger the TV, the worse it looks.

Oppo is a nice player for picture. Panasonic makes many good players. Xbox One is also great.

Just going by what I'm seeing.

I wouldn't buy anything made by Seiki in the first place. My Sony players do a good job though.

[Dwayne Hicks]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

I wouldn't buy anything made by Seiki in the first place. My Sony players do a good job though.

Yeah no doubt it's crap. Any good region free players you recommend?

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Dwayne Hicks

Yeah no doubt it's crap. Any good region free players you recommend?

Sherwood used to make good region free players out of the box, but they started locking them a couple years ago.

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by Dwayne Hicks

Your last statement could not be further from the truth! Cheap players have poor video processing and Blu-rays start to look like You Tube videos.

Sorry, but my $40 region-free Seiki-sr212s puts out an image every bit as good as my Panasonic. It looks nothing like a Youtube video. "Grain resolve" is just fine - I see grain and detail every bit as good as the Panasonic.

[Cevolution]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Do you even know what you're talking about here?

Why are any of you guy's even continuing to bother with Mr Hicks, he was wrong way back at post # 10:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...1&postcount=10

[Dwayne Hicks]

Originally Posted by mar3o

Sorry, but my $40 region-free Seiki-sr212s puts out an image every bit as good as my Panasonic. It looks nothing like a Youtube video. "Grain resolve" is just fine - I see grain and detail every bit as good as the Panasonic.

That's the one I have! Have you compared it to a PS4, Xbox Obe, or Oppo?

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by cevolution

why are any of you guy's even continuing to bother with mr hicks, he was wrong way back at post # 10:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...1&postcount=10

qft.

[mzupeman]

Originally Posted by Dwayne Hicks

My display is a 4K XBR and Blus via PS4 look sensational. I also have a $50 region free Seiki and a $80 Sony, model number escapes me at the moment, but it's about 2-3 years old. The cheap players have very limited menus, but everything that can be turned off is. Both cheap players are smear central. And the bigger the TV, the worse it looks.

Oppo is a nice player for picture. Panasonic makes many good players. Xbox One is also great.

Just going by what I'm seeing.

Well you're not viewing native resolution then, yes? It's upscaled?