TV/Monitor/DVD issues

Thanks to you both for your effort. As both of you have pointed out, it is most definitely a problem of limited number of levels. Beyond that, I still have not found a setting that affects it, but I will keep trying as I get time.

I must say, the industry has made great progress. The complexity of viewing a TV is now comparable to reconstructing a CT scan. Enjoy your Mac, The Hat. Fortunately, they have carefully avoided not overwhelming users with the technical side of it, by not telling us what all those options do. And just in case we happen to know some of the terminology that has been in use for the last 80 years, they have helpfully changed it so we won't get confused.

If @The Hat, @Nifty or any other mod/staff member is able to split the thread where you started to post about your TV/Monitor/DVD issue @ThrillaMozilla and place it in the "everything else" forum, we can if you want go into it a bit more (example mention exact model of TV and i could look through its manual online if it has one with more suggestions). Theres also a few other things i could get you to try to test the TV and other ways to play the DVD i could suggest. Do not really want to go that in-depth in this thread as it will not only then be de-railed but a complete flaming wreck

Seems like a good idea.

@ThrillaMozilla give us the model number of your TV or better yet if you have it a link to the manual online and ill have a look through for suggestions to settings to try

Thanks for the offer, but I'm making a bit of progress and I could easily waste a lot of your time. There's a lot of good stuff in what you and Stratman gave me already, especially if I follow the links, and I've made some changes already. I'll post back when I know a bit more -- and probably with another question. I can say this thing is growing on me.

ThrillaMozilla said:

There's a lot of good stuff in what you and Stratman gave me already, especially if I follow the links

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AVS Forum may have calibration settings for your specific TV. They may not be precise for your individual TV, since each TV will calibrate slightly (or more) than another in the model line, but you might get close enough for your tastes. With a good colorimeter or spectrophotometer and good software you can do your own calibration. However, not all TV's are easily calibrated. The Vizio 4K TV's have been a real bear to calibrate but some experts found (partial) workarounds.

ThrillaMozilla said:

Thanks for the offer, but I'm making a bit of progress and I could easily waste a lot of your time. There's a lot of good stuff in what you and Stratman gave me already, especially if I follow the links, and I've made some changes already. I'll post back when I know a bit more -- and probably with another question. I can say this thing is growing on me.

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NO problem any assistance pop back here

stratman said:

AVS Forum may have calibration settings for your specific TV. They may not be precise for your individual TV, since each TV will calibrate slightly (or more) than another in the model line, but you might get close enough for your tastes. With a good colorimeter or spectrophotometer and good software you can do your own calibration. However, not all TV's are easily calibrated. The Vizio 4K TV's have been a real bear to calibrate but some experts found (partial) workarounds.

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With his TV being 4K and a LG its a pretty modern device which should (well normally) have a function in its menus somewhere for test patterns. That will take care of colour brightness etc (may need a blue filter for colour and or tint/hue) but other than that you can normally do a pretty good job by eye with a decent greyscale test image.

Of course that will not help with regards to motion settings which is probably what half his issues are.

I would not go buy any standard settings people mention either (EXAMPLE only brightness set to 60 colour set to 50 etc etc) as that will vary slightly not only on model but some models actually use different panels from different manufacturers. LG for example have previously used Samsung and Vestel panels in their TVs.

CakeHole said:

some models actually use different panels from different manufacturers

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That is the unfortunate truth and the reason for the phrase "panel lottery"!