Samsung KS7000 55" 4K HDR Calibration

jpaul said:
Kitch9 Thanks for the detail - yes it does not seem as difficult as I thought

The white Balance on the panasonic and ks7000 both seem to have hierarchical controls coarse and fine - looks a bit tricky

The ks7000 manuals (and my panasonic) do not seem to list all the controls - a bit meh, but articles like this on ks8000 this had some interesting comments on gamma and white-balance menus, basically not using the fine 10 point controls !
(but maybe the guy had been tricked by local dimming which may modify the test pattern after it is initially displayed - I believe)
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It's not tricky at all, just turn off all image processing and Backlight tricks before calibrating.

My Sony W829 has 2 point only and my JU6800 has 2 point and 10 point. I got both TV's to Rec 709 and Gamma 2.2 with just the 2 point. I did tweak the 10 point on the ju6800 but it was only to see how tight I could get it. Both TV's look exactly the same with a great picture. I couldn't get either to look right trying to adjust settings by eye. I'd had the W829 for months and was never entirely happy with the picture the colourmunki solved that in 30 minutes.
 
I thought this image processing options advice from panasonic review was interesting, since probably half what I watch is sd low bit-rate(freeview)

Overcompressed SD TV broadcasts on a 65in UHD television are never going to look great, but at least they don’t look any worse than they did on a Full HD 1080p display. Panasonic’s MPEG Noise Filter is quite effective at blurring out the mosaic/tiling and mosquito noise effects that become even more visible with low bitrate MPEG-2 broadcasts on a large, high-resolution panel. However, there is only so much lipstick you can apply to a pig: with sources of this quality, it’s a bit late for trying to preserve film grain (for movies broadcast on TV), so we engaged the MPEG NR and Temporal NR features at their highest settings in an attempt to clean things up. Post-filtering is an inexact art, and we had no complaint about the quality of Panasonic’s method.
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(off-topic - the review comments about oled periodic automatic re-calibration for screen uniformity issues - never seen mention of that before)
 
I paid for my OLED to be calibrated as tbh I'm lazy and I can't be arsed doing it myself. I also have enough disposable income to justify it. It took him half a day, I can't remember what I paid, something like £250.

I was very impressed with the changes, now when I switch source to HDMI 2 on the TV (all calibration is HDMI 1 for my AV amp) I can really tell the difference and the picture looks awful. He did two separate calibrations, one day profile and one night profile but I tend to have my room dark so just leave it on the night profile. He also sent me a report with all the settings in case my TV loses them.

Overall I'd pay for it again but that said I do earn well and I am lazy!
 
Calibration would be pointless for me, as all my many devices go in via my A/V Receiver in to one HDMI input.

But because I use it for PC games, PS4, Xbox One etc - I turn all the processing off.
 
You mean mpeg-2 processing options are irrelevant with hdmi in - yes ? not colour calibration
I assume that processing options for motion resolution and back light dimming would still be relevant even with hdmi/raw in.

On freeview, SD is all that is available for film4 and Dave and (my) regional news for example, but it maybe the low bitrates as much as resolution that are painful.
On sky(pay) with HD variants of these channels, if they are not upscaled material , they probably look better.
... but as I say probably 50% of what I watch is sd and I had forgotten to try out some mpeg-2 processing options when using internal tuner/streaming.
 
I had my TV professionally calibrated last year. I wouldn't bother getting it done again. The difference between non-calibrated and calibrated offered very little difference.
 
jpaul said:
You mean mpeg-2 processing options are irrelevant with hdmi in - yes ? not colour calibration
I assume that processing options for motion resolution and back light dimming would still be relevant even with hdmi/raw in.

On freeview, SD is all that is available for film4 and Dave and (my) regional news for example, but it maybe the low bitrates as much as resolution that are painful.
On sky(pay) with HD variants of these channels, if they are not upscaled material , they probably look better.
... but as I say probably 50% of what I watch is sd and I had forgotten to try out some mpeg-2 processing options when using internal tuner/streaming.
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Processing as in: intelligent frame creation, noise reduction, brilliance enhancer, colour remaster etc etc

Colour wise I just copied some results from a forum and the picture was a bit better than 'out of the box'.
 
If you don't mind me adding to this thread,
I have just picked up an UE60KS7000 and as lovely as it looks on the wall, I am really bothered by the motion blur during any content. Is this normal on a TV of this type out of the box and is there a fix for it?

Thanks.
 
Is it possible that you notice something on a purchased item that you didn't see mentioned in high scoring reviews during research?

Are you trying to say research should have shown me that this TV would have annoying motion blur? I'm confused, the reviews were good.
 
Clearcut said:
Is it possible that you notice something on a purchased item that you didn't see mentioned in high scoring reviews during research?

Are you trying to say research should have shown me that this TV would have annoying motion blur? I'm confused, the reviews were good.
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You can tone down or turn off the motion processing.
 
I will post my settings up later but I've effectively removed most motion blurring just with simple tweaking. Really impressed with the picture quality overall.
 
Great think mine is faulty. Can't get past smart remote screen and keeps telling me to check the one connect is connected.

Edit: Seemed swapping the cable round worked which is odd.
 
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