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jdoocey's avatar
jdoocey
On our wavelength
2 years ago

Picture quality not as good as Freeview

Whenever I visit my uncle or my sister, who only have Freeview, I instantly notice how much better the quality of picture is on their TV's. I mean, it REALLY stands out. I have 2 Tivo boxes and the same quality on both TV's.  I mean the picture isn't terrible, but compared to Freeview, it is pretty basic. Is there any reason for this? I have all Samsung TV, purchased in 2023, but the picture quality was the same on my previous TV also, so don't think it has anything to do with my Tv's.

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  • Roger_Gooner's avatar
    Roger_Gooner
    Alessandro Volta
    10 months ago

    Your picture settings look good. On my TV I also turned off motion smoothing (known by various names including  MotionFlow, Auto Motion Plus, TruMotion, Intelligent Frame Creation and Perfect Natural Motion), set Sharpness to 0 and Brightness to 50.

    • ALF28's avatar
      ALF28
      Super solver
      10 months ago

      Thanks for the advice, I have also found increasing the contrast has helped.

      I have adjusted both our TV's to have similar settings on Freeview and if using the V6 box also the same TV settings so there is some conformity across devices.

      Getting older often causes some vision problems, such as cataracts, MD etc, I need strong glasses to read the text on the screen.