Samsung LE32R88LC Major Smeer/motion blur. is it normal?

[Grunge]

Hi All.

I just bought a Samsung LE32R88LC, everything seemed to be fine with it until last night, I was watching an episode of the west wing which had quite dark backgounds and I was experiencing some quite hidious motion blur, 2 characters walking towards the camera and there faces seemed to actualy be detached from the heads. some guy nodding and half his face seem to update a few frames behind the rest of him.

I messed with all the settings and managed to reduce the effect by turning the brightness and contrast down a lot but now the picture is too dark.

In the 2 days i've had the TV i've seen the effect on a few things but nothing to this scale. I tried 4 or 5 dvds afterwards and all of them were fine, even the Matrix which is fast and dark.

Im starting to think it could be exasperated by the fact its a 4:3 image being stretched to widescreen but I need advice as Im really not sure!. Is the TV doing things it shouldnt or is this a normal thing for a LCD?.

Fyi: This is is being displayed via a xbox360.

[kandee]

You need to pop over to the avforums and check out the lcd thread.

[Refrenz]

Hi All.

I just bought a Samsung LE32R88LC, everything seemed to be fine with it until last night, I was watching an episode of the west wing which had quite dark backgounds and I was experiencing some quite hidious motion blur, 2 characters walking towards the camera and there faces seemed to actualy be detached from the heads. some guy nodding and half his face seem to update a few frames behind the rest of him.

I messed with all the settings and managed to reduce the effect by turning the brightness and contrast down a lot but now the picture is too dark.

In the 2 days i've had the TV i've seen the effect on a few things but nothing to this scale. I tried 4 or 5 dvds afterwards and all of them were fine, even the Matrix which is fast and dark.

Im starting to think it could be exasperated by the fact its a 4:3 image being stretched to widescreen but I need advice as Im really not sure!. Is the TV doing things it shouldnt or is this a normal thing for a LCD?.

Fyi: This is is being displayed via a xbox360.

You've mentioned its a West Wing DVD in 4:3, so that narrows it down to season 1 or 2. I've watched Series 1 to 4 of West Wing on the 40" model of your TV and noticed the crappy smearing. I think its partly down to the rubbish quality of the DVD. They did switch to non-anamorphic widescreen in season 3, and proper anamorphic widescreen in series 4 onwards but the picture always looked grainy and not quite what it could have been.

Another thing could be (assuming you're not using a VGA cable) if you have noise reduction on auto or high, try turning it off as that can cause smearing, and turn off movie plus if its on, as this can cause unwanted artifacts in the picture too.

Ultimately, the cause is likely to be a combination of poor quality DVD mastering with a bit of LCD-not-as-good-as-old-tube/CRT-tellys-for-standard-definition-material thrown in for good measure.

The problem with your telly is that there are so many settings, it will take you hours of fiddling to get the best picture, and thats assuming you understand what each setting does. As the previous poster said, you'd be better off checking out the AVForums as there is a dedicated Samsung R8 settings thread with optimal settings for various devices. Here's a link to the first page of the thread with the latest settings in the first post. That thread was a godsend to me ...

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=513376