Recently got a new TCL 6-Series QLED TV for a price I couldn't pass on. For a lot of content, the set looks amazing out of the box. Even comparing to my outgoing 4-Series on the same mount just before it.
But there is "Action Smoothing" and two other kinds of settings to ruin your experience, maybe even your vision, on by default. I had read that the 6-Series needed some basic display changes, offered by pro reviewers, but what I saw were things like color/brightness/contrast/gamma. I'd have given the 4-Series a solid A for having an optimal calibration from the factory. I guess it spoiled me.
I was so captivated by the display attributes (re: Dolby Vision), even coming from a mildly aged 4K Set, that it wasn't until the enchantment waned that something was clearly not good.
I mistook the high speed video for dropped frames and a speed-up to compensate. But everything seemed to be there- I was perplexed.
I started to think that Plex was struggling. Maybe my content needed to be remuxed? An awful lot of my library has AC3 Audio that my set can't handle. But that didn't change: I'm using l-pcm same as before on the 4. Plus if the video isn't being converted my server is basically yawning.
After I noticed the soap opera effect on a Netflix Stream... I realized it was not Plex. If Netflix can't transcode or doesn't already have every muxing and container a TV in 2020 uses standard, there is something wrong.
I dug through the settings and stumbled upon these new motion/action/cinema smoothing options. They stuck out like a sore thumb because aside from new display tech (Dolby Vision and dimming zones) they are pretty much the only new items w/r the 4-Series.
I didn't even need Tom Cruise's help:
Seriously though, the few hours I watched this weekend, before finding the devil's settings, seem to have disturbed my vision. Now anything digitally displayed or edges of big objects like billboards that are illuminated by pwm driven lights, where I obviously don't see flashing, looks funky. Today was kind of boring considering I've been stuck with soap opera vision IRL.
Anyone have a similar tale? I assume it's the absence of that visual crud that's causing a prolonged sensation- like getting off a moving conveyor. So I'm not worried for now. For me. For everyone else that has a TV with these settings, how are you still alive? At the least, I don't understand how so many potential people either are unaware or estute enough (en mass) for this to not be something on the news every night. No one really noticed Dynamic Contrast and a lot of people seem to like it...
Am I special for having this reaction? Doesn't feel much like a special headache, and it hasn't been revealed that all my neighbors are sleeping with one another.
But there is "Action Smoothing" and two other kinds of settings to ruin your experience, maybe even your vision, on by default. I had read that the 6-Series needed some basic display changes, offered by pro reviewers, but what I saw were things like color/brightness/contrast/gamma. I'd have given the 4-Series a solid A for having an optimal calibration from the factory. I guess it spoiled me.
I was so captivated by the display attributes (re: Dolby Vision), even coming from a mildly aged 4K Set, that it wasn't until the enchantment waned that something was clearly not good.
I mistook the high speed video for dropped frames and a speed-up to compensate. But everything seemed to be there- I was perplexed.
I started to think that Plex was struggling. Maybe my content needed to be remuxed? An awful lot of my library has AC3 Audio that my set can't handle. But that didn't change: I'm using l-pcm same as before on the 4. Plus if the video isn't being converted my server is basically yawning.
After I noticed the soap opera effect on a Netflix Stream... I realized it was not Plex. If Netflix can't transcode or doesn't already have every muxing and container a TV in 2020 uses standard, there is something wrong.
I dug through the settings and stumbled upon these new motion/action/cinema smoothing options. They stuck out like a sore thumb because aside from new display tech (Dolby Vision and dimming zones) they are pretty much the only new items w/r the 4-Series.
I didn't even need Tom Cruise's help:
Seriously though, the few hours I watched this weekend, before finding the devil's settings, seem to have disturbed my vision. Now anything digitally displayed or edges of big objects like billboards that are illuminated by pwm driven lights, where I obviously don't see flashing, looks funky. Today was kind of boring considering I've been stuck with soap opera vision IRL.
Anyone have a similar tale? I assume it's the absence of that visual crud that's causing a prolonged sensation- like getting off a moving conveyor. So I'm not worried for now. For me. For everyone else that has a TV with these settings, how are you still alive? At the least, I don't understand how so many potential people either are unaware or estute enough (en mass) for this to not be something on the news every night. No one really noticed Dynamic Contrast and a lot of people seem to like it...
Am I special for having this reaction? Doesn't feel much like a special headache, and it hasn't been revealed that all my neighbors are sleeping with one another.