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Browsing the USB disk follows after your selection; luckily this is easy and fast. Sub maps are handled perfectly and I was able to navigate with serious speed. So does it really play every format out there? Yes and no. I threw a lot at it, including media that the PS3 can’t play.
AVI, MPEG, MP4 were all played with ease. MKVs weren’t a problem either, even the big 15+ gig ones. I had one instance where it declined to play my audio format because it was not supported – DTS I think.
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I was in cloud 9 until I came across a little problem. Do you know those small HD cameras? They sometimes record in a file called.MTS, also known as AVCHD. The Samsung C8700 didn’t want in and couldn’t even see the files appear in the browsing window.
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A small hiccup in an otherwise perfect playback score, guess I’ve to use the PS3 for AVCHD files. Calibrating Everyone who’s serious about televisions can tell you that proper calibration is critical. To accomplish this I calibrated the television for a few different scenarios and ultimately chose a compromise.
Because I don’t want to switch settings each time I change to gaming, SD or HD movies. The menu is very easy to use. I pressed display options and found myself confronted by a few sliders controlling: sharpness, contrast, backlight, colors etc. I could also change the local dimming settings (smart LED) and the way the television tries to remove grain. After about 2 hours, I found a good compromise in settings, displaying both SD and HD very well.
I had turned the sharpness down a notch to remove unwanted artifacts around objects, most noticeably in SD signals. Contrast was upped a bit but not too much otherwise it removes shadow details. Colors were set up high and backlight was set to maximum with the eco sensor enabled. The eco sensor is Samsung’s response to Sony’s system.
Basically it reads the environment and changes settings accordingly. It can lower brightness based on ambient light, turn the TV off when there’s no signal and a few other less interesting things. The sound settings give basic control, not nearly as extensive as the image setting capabilities. It allowed me to change the sound to the optimal settings for: movies, music and speech.
And of course it has the surround mock-up setting, which I like. Last but not least the C8700 can normalize volume differences between channels. This can work but I kept it off because I never experience this problem much. Normally you’d be done now but there’s one more setting to worry about: 3D. Samsung has provided a wide array of tools to make the experience, especially the conversion system, as comfortable as possible.
Settings include: generated depth, brightness and the way the system generates the 3D effect. I noticed that bigger depth in the settings can be really nice or really annoying. It all depended on how well the conversion worked in the first place. So with my TV calibrated it was time for some real world tests. So I did what each family does…
connect a 2TB HDD with 1080p content and hundreds of movies and TV series that I legally own. But before that I watched some regular television. Testing Now bear in mind that I don’t have the equipment to do a scientific test. I just looked at real world material and calibrated the television using a method that every normal person uses. First some general remarks about the testing process and findings. I watched content in three categories: SD, HD and gaming.
I took my time and got a good look at different aspects of the image quality, especially motion, colors, black levels and general sharpness. First my finding that applies to everything I watched. The viewing angles on this TV are disappointing. A small angle already resulted in a considerable loss of colors.
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