Why Does My 4K TV Look Bad?

Disappointed in the picture quality of your new 4K TV? I discuss video processing and how it affects picture quality, and what you can do to improve your situation.

[@alexneil9116]

you nailed it when you said when you go to the store the tv's look amazing but then you get home and it is not like that...

[@gerry4585]

stores secretly play expensive quality discs to give you the impression the tv is always this good!......ask them to play the normal tv and they'll make excuses not to!😫😫

[@mac33311133]

@@gerry4585 thanks for the tip, do you perhaps know what the Samsung 4k tvs entry levels are like? Handling 720p to 1080p? Thanks!

[@sonofthe80s]

@@mac33311133 NOT GOOD. I just bought a QLED q6 65" Samsung that looked great on display. And that's at least a mid-tier Samsung unit. I knew the trick they use at the stores, to display the very best signal they can to draw you in. But I expected at least the 1080P/1080I bcast would be decent. I found it was significantly WORSE than the 1080P TV we have. WAY WORSE. Motion blur, pixelization, even ghosting of static content. You can see the unit try to correct and re-correct and its annoying. Not to mention its terrible sound and cheap remote. Unless you're doing all games or all 4K you have to find the best upscaler you can. Hard to do it seems as no manufacturers discuss this. I'm at a loss. I read the Q8 is better. But that's 2x the price.

[@mac33311133]

@@sonofthe80s my friend thanks for that info. Best to wait until 4k becomes more available... Thanks once again 🙏

[@Pauls_Archive]

@@sonofthe80s Gotta say that sounds crap to me. I have a mid price Samsung 43inch 4K tv and I have excellent picture quality, First thing to note - your tv picture will only ever be as good as the source that’s feeding it! Here in the U.K., I have freeview terrestrial TV on a rooftop aerial and generally picture quality looks good across all channels even more so on HD. I also have cable tv which has a mixture of SD , HD and 4K content, and again, very little issue, I’m not naive not to know that QLED or OLED TVs will give much more detailed pictures, but when people say, oh I have terrible picture quality on decent sets like Samsung, I have to wonder what the hell they are watching?, Most Americans buy huge ass TVs without realising also that, tv pictures generally look worse, the bigger you go with screen size, here in the U.K. - 65inch is generally considered a bigger than average tv, not many people have this size - the most common is 43” - 50”, for the simple reason, tv pictures look shit the bigger you go, 4K content should always look decent! And just to finish, majority of TVs in. Store are in demo mode which boost contrasts and colour to make everything look sharpe and oversaturated, you should never ever use your tv with these settings!

[@paulmidgley8040]

I'm sick of all this 4k hdr crap! I was happy with my samsung 3d tv upstairs and my lg 3d tv downstairs, life was perfect and then 4 feckin k came along and fucked it all up.

[@shackdaddy7106]

You should save those 3-D televisions. They will be collectors items someday.

[@hollowman1836]

Just go into picture settings and find auto motion. Turn auto motion off and your tv will look normal. You can tweak the sharpness etc if you want but turning off automation gets rid of the cheap look that most of us were horrified to see when we turned our tv on.

[@tb2324]

Lol. No. Not at all. Yes, make sure you turn off any motion smoothing (soap opera effect), but that doesn’t have anything to do with the poor up scaling of non 4K material. Please don’t Communicate wrong information.

[@hollowman1836]

@@tb2324 I’m not an expert, just sharing what worked for me. I literally turned it off and my tv looked perfect.

[@misssparkle8317]

Motionflow doesnt do a thing to affect poor upscaling

[@ingeborgsvensson4896]

I watched one of those 4K demo channels on KZbin and the images were really amazing, so bright and crisp with great sound. So much better than I had ever seen before.. And I suddenly realised: wait a minute, I am watching this on my standard 1080p monitor. So the real problem is not the equipment at all, it's the content! Great video, you explained it well.

[@williamwieliczko5505]

well that mostly will have been recorded in 8k and then is downscaled on your screen it most certainly will look sharper and better on a 4k screen with hdr, but filiming in 4k or 8k and downscaling to 1080p still has many benefits to image quality and detail than fsay filming in 1080p.

[@ingeborgsvensson4896]

@@williamwieliczko5505 I lived in Europe where we already had 625i tv and first went to semi HD (720p) nobody could really tell much difference. But when some channels went full HD (1080p) that was a noticeable difference. None of my friends are really interested in 4K, but maybe when there comes more content available in the future. My current 1080 tv does have a sharper image than the old CRT of 20 years ago but only by a small margin. For Americans there may have been a much larger improvement but in Europe I know a lot of consumer feel duped by the HD scam and they will not easily make another large investment.

[@williamwieliczko5505]

@@ingeborgsvensson4896 im from london bro lol and 4k is not a scam just need more 4k programs and films, but if u want to know who 4k benefits the most... its gamers main reason i/anyone gets a 4k tv is to play things like red dead redemption 2 in gloriouse 4k hdr.

[@ingeborgsvensson4896]

@@williamwieliczko5505 I'm not calling it a scam but a lot of people are. Remember that guy who wanted to shoot the CEO of Philips years ago because his HD tv was not as advertised? He ended up in the wrong building and kidnapped some Innocent people. they even turned it into a movie. I play on a 1080p monitor but I have not seen a game yet that needs more resolution. I would consider a 1440p in the future maybe but never a 4K, it's just a waste of money. Even for RDR2.

[@lormitwinnipeg3899]

I am terribly upset with my new 58 inch Samsung 4k smart tv.

[@captainamerica4299]

Agree I bought one too and it sucks

[@aakar88]

Lormit Winnipeg Of course you are, but you did buy it because it was cheaper than a Sony, right?

[@zimworlddee919]

Just read about ore look on youtube on the best settings

[@2200Z]

@Lormit Winnipeg. That's why I'm hoping my Samsung 8500 plasma lasts forever! In the mean time, find the exact model number of your Samsung and search the World Wide Web. For example, let's say your TV is a Samsung UNKU7000. Type into a WWW search engine such as DuckDuckGo: Samsung UNKU7000 calibration. c|net.com or rtings.com will provide very good picture settings. Plug those numbers into the Display settings on your TV. Cheers!

[@amigaamigo5307]

I replaced it with my 3D 1080 Samsung and for what.

[@diggerdan4661]

So basically they lie to you to purchase junk!

[@aussie8114]

I am learning in my research that this is an extremely important subject that virtually none of the pro reviewers are covering. Sure blue rays and 4K signals can look totally awesome but what about all the sd content everyone still watches on normal tv broadcasts. I'm not going to stop watching all my fave programs just because they're not in some sort of super hd. So it's really important a new tv can give a nice image on sd content, otherwise might as well just buy a 5 year old model for tv viewing.

[@guitarman0365]

that is why standard 1080p tvs are still the best in my opinion they cover just about any source well enough obviously except 4k but because the content for that is not wide enough enough 1080 is still the best. Like even watch standard def dvds look amazing on my 1080 tv amaing enough with the upscaler that it actually is not to to far off from even bluray quality. its outstanding how good dvds can even look with it. I have seen nothing that really begs buying a 4k tv. movies look perfectly fine in regular hd i don't know why people need more and more.

[@MARQ101HVC]

I feel like 4k TVs are for the future because current technology is not ready for 4k resolution. Even the main TV stations and cable channels dont broadcast in 4k yet but, I feel like they will in the future so the retail market is selling the TVs now so we can be ready when that time comes.

[@johnmellor932]

@@guitarman0365 "movies look perfectly fine in regular hd i don't know why people need more and more." Screen size. My 23" LG 1080p looks great, and especially my blu ray discs - pin sharp, lucious color, no complaints here. But at 23 inch it's bound to. A 55 or 65 inch tv and upwards 1080p is going to start looking like 720p. I suppose it depends on how much of a geek you are. I'm not a video nerd myself but I was blown away by my friends enormous 4K TV. Watching Blue Planet the details and colors was mind boggling. It makes for more emmersive viewing.

[@lwvmobile]

Yep, this just reminds me that when I start shopping for a replacement TV, its going to be a decently higher end 1080p display, even in 2019/2020. I literally have no equipment that can provide a 4K/UHD/2160p but tons and tons of 1080p stuff. It might not be a bad idea to skip a generation, or just limit it to when I build my next higher end PC with a high end monitor.

[@JesseLockeHere2Do]

Most of us early adopters said the same thing about HD TVs. There was almost no 1080p or even 720p content when bought our first one. That changed of course as more shows/movies were shot in the higher resolution. I learned from that experience. I’ll just wait for more content and for the prices to keep dropping.

[@patricknyland1060]

This is why I cherish my Panasonic full HD Neoplasma. I sell TV'S and customers are shocked to hear my TV is 8 years old! Little do they know my TV is far superior to the TV they just paid a fortune for

[@NovaaGrind]

Thanks for the info, there's endless reviews but they all fail to include the most important facts. My 10 year old 43 inch Dynez 720p is better than my new 4k 50 inch Samsung. I really hate the soap opera quality

[@behzadahmad8818]

Wow, i have never been so disappointed in my life than my 4k tv.

[@randomnesity9]

I swear. I feel defeated 😂😂😂

[@JesseLockeHere2Do]

Most of us early adopters said the same thing about HD TVs. There was almost no 1080p or even 720p content when bought our first one. That changed of course as more shows/movies were shot in the higher resolution. I learned from that experience. I’ll just wait for more content and for the prices to keep dropping.

[@misssparkle8317]

Me too. Its not the 4k, its more the crappy upscaling / processing 😢

[@misssparkle8317]

​@@JesseLockeHere2Do its 2024 and STILL aerial content is mostly 576i and the bloody TVs are 4k & cant render it well 😢

[@JesseLockeHere2Do]

@@misssparkle8317 Streaming is the way to go. There's lots of 4k streaming content.

[@fnkycoldmedina]

smart man here . we just returned a near 1100.00 dollar samsung qled 65 inch because the upscaling looked terrible . we watch cable tv ,even though we subscribe to hd channeling most if it is only 1080p and not 4k . this high end samsung didnt even do a good job of the upscaling .we couldnt watch that tv .our 4-5 year old 50inch samsung looks much better . so be aware ,if your watching broadcast cable tv stick with your current set you will not be happy with a 4k tv . we learned the hard way .sure they look great in the store they are feeding it 4k content . we are staying with our old unit awhile longer until cable tv catches up with 4k content .

[@Zickcermacity]

In my order of priority, resolution is secondary to overall accuracy as determined by proper adjustment of basic user and some advanced settings. After years of watching digital flat panel TVs, most of which I've had a hand in performing basic level calibrations, I still have that 'wow' moment when I visit my Aunt, and look at the 17-19" Trinitron showing the news on her kitchen counter! Yes, I adjusted that one also, and it still lends a 'you are there' feeling every time I see it.

[@leokarabeg]

There's nothing as immersive as a tiny 19" TV : P

[@Zickcermacity]

@@leokarabeg You have to see it to understand.

[@azriazris]

Seller showing 4K demo in their shop not same when bring home.. hahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@misssparkle8317]

This is exactly what I've been searching for - thank you!!!! I replaced a 2021 sony with a 2023 sony and the quality is suddenly terrible and I felt so confused. I suspect it is poor upscaling in the video processing. It is very blurry or freckly, macroblocking, pixelation, artefacts galore 😢 What is the point of 4k TVs if most content is still filmed at 576i or 1080i and the TVs render it like garbage!!?

[@fadedmass1662]

I've returned 3 top end 4ks in 2 years due to a number of reasons. Placing my 1080 side by side was the final staw.

[@MrMarkysimm]

Kevin lowe agree, my Sony looks awful in 4K, I flicked the tv inputs to 720 and it’s the sharpest picture ever

[@cronicjointpain1]

@@MrMarkysimm How did you do that?

[@misssparkle8317]

​@@cronicjointpain1i want to know too!!!

[@valueofnothing2487]

Rtings rates upscaling, and gives you examples. The problem when you say read reviews is you don't know if those reviews are correct and if you look at KZbin videos you don't know if they're just profiting from the sale somehow.

[@daj5125]

I have no issue running 2k or lower resolution content on my 4k 65" Passive 3D LG. It has a phenomenal picture no matter what. Inboard processing is spot on. It depends more on the panel used in the tv. They vary from brand to brand, and within each brand, they vary not only from model to model but also from size to size within those models. And the panels can even vary within the same size on the same model. I find Sony, LG, and Vizio all have fairly consistent picture quality on most models and sizes, but Samsung's lower tier models like the 6000 series have garbage panels and processing. Did you, by any chance, buy one of those? The worst tv I have is a 6000 series Samsung 40" active 3D. Terribly crushed blacks, bad gradation, awful off-axis image, plus other weird anomalies. Even the 3D has bad cross-talk. The only redeeming qualities on the TV are excellent full array back-lighting consistency, and wonderfully smooth 120Hz frame-interpolation (Auto Motion Plus) set to Custom with Blur Reduction and Judder Reduction both set to 10. Makes everything so smooth, buttery, and life-like. Drops the ball on everything else though.

[@misssparkle8317]

Which model LG please?

[@TheRealK6]

I can’t believe someone hasn’t corrected you yet. Anyway, it’s 4 times the resolution not double the resolution. I know it can be confusing, because 3840 is double 1920 & 2160 is double 1080p; however when you actually multiply the numbers together that’s when you get the pixel count so... 3840x2160 = 8,294,400 And 1920x1080 = 2,073,600 As you can see 8,294,400 is a little more than 4 times resolution of 2,073,600. Also, just additional info 4K derives from that first number 3840... there are cinema formats that’s closer to that number... there is also 2K, 8K and so on...DCI 2K, 4K has a wider screen format than our typical television screen which have a 16:9 ratio.

[@dry509]

So what tv do you currently recommend for good 4K upscaling, color decoding video processing.

[@galefraney]

Fantastic explanation, very clear, concise and easy to understand. Much appreciated !!

[@mde8965]

Nice video! I echo others comments that you produce really good videos, both in production and quality content. I am one of the people you speak of that bought an expensive 4k OLED TV, and hate the way cable looks, particularly things like NFL football. I actually tried all of your suggestions...being unhappy with the TV processing producing soft images and lots of noise and motion artifacting, I tried the upscaling of my higher end Denon receiver. It was slightly better, but the motion was worse. Then I tried upscaling though my Oppo UDP-203 4k Blu Ray player which is known to have really good upscaling/processing. The Oppo was the best of the three. Crystal clear picture...as long as everything is still or moving slowly, but still has some blur and artifacting with motion. My cable signal is generally 1080i. But some signals are more compressed than others I guess. I am not super happy with my cable TV watching experience on my 4K OLED, but have come to the conclusion that because my particular cable feed is either overly compressed, or my cable box is processing the signal badly or whatever, that I am not going to be able to do anything about it. I guess I will watch football on my plasma in the other room...

[@whistlingtechav5804]

Thanks for the comment Michael! It sounds like you've run the gamut on things to try to improve your situation, but I'll add a couple of other suggestions just in case it might help. When it comes to motion processing, it's all about finding the sweet spot between the "blur" and "judder" settings in your TV's picture menu. You can tweak these when you set the motion preset to "custom." Since you have an OLED, you can probably max out the blur reduction slider (or close to max) without compromising the brightness of your picture (LCDs usually lose a lot of brightness when raising that setting). The judder setting is the touchy one. If you set it too high it will make the picture look weird, like some kind of strange 3D version of whatever you're watching. Also it can add artifacts around objects that are in motion if it's set too high. It does make a big difference in detail however, so you want to find the spot where it's helping with detail but not adding any weirdness to the picture. Also, check your cable box settings and see if it has a resolution setting that outputs whatever is the native resolution of the channel you're watching. Your TV probably does a way better job handling the processing than the cable box, so the less it does the better! Hope that helps - thanks again!

[@kosimak32]

WhistlingTechAV would a receiver help my cable picture quality?

[@Loophole23742]

+Dori B I mostly use my 55 inch qled tv for gaming on my PS4 Pro and Xbox one X in my bedroom to be honest. My 40 inch 1080p is just fine in my living room for every day viewing and watching standard def. my q9fn looks terrible when watching standard def so I only use the HD channels which are stored in my favourites list when watching TV in my bed room and connect the external hardrive to record HD shows like ITV HD. I still use my PS3 and play tv recorder to record standard def shows on my living room TV.

[@geebee6010]

The problem is that nothing is in 4K other than streaming a few services here and there. Most people still watch regular tv and that’s the problem.

[@rachelslur8729]

Just to clarify: upscaling has nothing to do with jutter/motion/color banding. All tv's used to stretch and heavily blur non native resolution content. It could only be counteracted with sharpness. Only recently pemium, expensive, 4K tv's started to do smart, adaptive sharpening that fake texture details while minimizing sharpness artifacts aka outlines.

[@whistlingtechav5804]

You're right about the judder and motion, for sure. That enhancement fits more properly into the frame interpolation category, which is another aspect of the video processing. Thanks for adding to the topic!

[@S1D1T1DO]

If you want to watch true 4K utilizing all the pixels on your TV you are not going to get it with streaming 4K. Those videos are compressed and are not of the same quality. A 4K Blu-ray disc is 100 GB or more. You’re not gonna be able to stream something at that size. So I don’t agree that the 4K Blu-ray format is going to die off. If people want the best quality image for their $3000 OLED they will want to get an UHD Blu-ray player.

[@valueofnothing2487]

I wish I could buy a 1080p TV that has local dimming, high response time, low stutter and Judder.

[@harleynowland]

Also usually when you see it in store the tv will be in the demo/store mode and that's why it will look different then when you get it home.

[@guitarman0365]

well also in the store they are actually feeding it a true 4k signal so that you can actually see how much nicer it CAN be thanregular hd. Not what you will mostly always get though.....if it was broadcasting regular hd nobody would ever have bought a 4k tv off the floor.

[@underwaterbubbles]

How do we know when a 4K programme is on the tv ?

[@miska2177]

There are plenty of SD tv channels, they look so bad in my 55inch 4k tv. Also 720p and 1080p look worse than on my old 42 inch HD tv-

[@guitarman0365]

ya i was very mad that the upscaler did not work good enough as they advertise..it really is best sticking to 1080p because even old standard dvds or shows will still look good with an upscaler on 1080p versus the upscaler with a 4k. Anything other than 1080i,p, or 4k will look atrocious on 4k tv. That is the sad truth. Just not enough 4k to warrant one.

[@mauriciolandos4712]

1080p channels look worse on my new 4k TV than on my 8 years old 1080i TV

[@SwedishDoomGoblin]

@@mauriciolandos4712 well shit I just found out

[@backforblood3421]

I think 4K itself may make things look unrealistic by showing far away things in far too much detail, which is something Bob Ross happens to have warned against decades ago when painting because the result looks very odd.

[@mohamedelabdaly5562]

Thank you so much for the precious information you provided.

[@danielshamu8890]

Dude you’re a Legend

[@trailkidzbroward5028]

You have to match your cable or Netflix also when getting a 4K tv I had to upgrade my account on Netflix to ultra hd so I can get my tv full potential

[@tb2324]

That doesn’t help watching normal cable, satellite, youtubetv etc that doesn’t broadcast in 4K. People watch more than just Netflix

[@Mark-ro5zg]

The main reason is because most people don't have a clue how to set up a TV properly. There are Blu-rays like Spears & Munsil that help set up the TV through several calibration modes. Or the easiest way is to search for your TV model number for picture settings and input the information via the TV menu.

[@steve4321able]

Nope, give me the model that will handle the processing. Otherwise I return it. These add ons are a headache. Great video you answered a lot of my questions 😀

[@Adrianek81]

When it comes to tv always try get the highest model,lets say samsung QN95A,QN95B,QN95C,these all tv’s are flagship model so you will get the best possible picture,very bright picture if need it,amazing colors due to Quantum dot layer and very good dark level at night due to mini led and alot of full array local dimming zones,or you want even better than get s95B,s90C or S95c oled tv,greetings from scotland✌️

[@zodiac890]

my friend bought a 4k tv it bothered his eyes real bad he had to get rid of it

[@fedge314]

Can you please make a video discussing other TV display settings such as black adjust, auto local dimming, X-tended Dynamic Range, Reality creation, and Motionflow?

[@jameslenahan8253]

I do have the option to turn 4k off on my television. So with nexflix and games (all run on my PS4) should I just try with it off? What about HDR?

[@jameslenahan8253]

Just answered my own question. I got rid of that milky-ness as well. Its still not perfect... And that bothers me.

[@misssparkle8317]

Which tv is that? Id love an option to turn 4k off! And 1080p as well 😅

[@brickskull6972]

Great Video .. Just that you forgot to mention 4k Hdmi cables to improve input

[@jujuguy2323]

I think 4k is overrated. Now I see at Best Buy they have 8 k TVs. Ridiculous. How far r they going to go? For me Blu-ray is just fine. All this is just a way to get people to spend more money

[@surgonc]

Great video. I stumbled on it searching why my HD cable channels look pixelated. Thanks for providing me with a reason and some suggestions. Kinda disappointed in my LG C7P. Ugh. Can u recommend a stand alone dedicated video processor like you mentioned? Thanks!!

[@drnycmedia]

*Dude, you need more suscribers, your AV content is GREAT!* 👍😎🍺🍻🍺

[@a64738]

By default modern 4k TVs have all kinds of noise filters, mpeg filters, motion interpolation and similar turned on by default. Turn of all that crap and it will start to look more natural and normal as most of thees make things look worse not better... Also, 4K tv will not magically make crappy TV broadcasts look better. You will need high qulity 4k video to make use of the 4k advantages. If you 4k tv is larger then your old 1080p and your viewing distance is the same and you watch crappy low quality TV broadcast it will of course look worse because it will show you the lack of quality more clearly. Digital tv broadcasts is of horrible bad quality most of the time in my experience compared to even the most crappy pirated stuff on Internet. Nothing I have ever found on internet have been worse then Digital TV at least here in Norway... Also there is many things that can go wrong so TV gets the wrong signal (happened with my new 55" Samsung). In my case tv was expecting a full RGB signal but was getting a limited dynamic range signal from the PC bacause HDMI2 was turned off on the TV by default. Collors was all wrong and everything to dark (25 darkest and 16 brightest colors was simply put to 0 and 255). When I activated HDMI2 in the TV I suddenly had the possibility to turn on full 0 - 255 RGB at 60hz in 4k and no more distorted colors.

[@mecximusa]

Can you tell me where on the settings did you turn the HDMI 2.0 on? I have upgraded from a 2017 samsung 50' 4k TV UHD to a 2020 55' QLED Q70T. The image quality is very bad. I have been playing with the settings all week and can't get to match the crystal image on 2017

[@a64738]

@@mecximusa I use my 55" 4k Samsung as computer monitor only and I had to buy a 60$ 1m long camble to get 4k working on my 55" Samsung or it would run 30hz compressed color mode. And even then it did sometimes loose the signal in the first 6months every day. After that it has worked fine. Other then that I had to make sure my computer was using uncompressed color and 0-255 black range at 60hz manually when running Windows 8 and 7, now with Windows 10 that option is not even there anymore but it seems to run correctly now... It seems there is many things that can go wrong with the signal making it end up running at lower settings. I don`t remember the setting I changed to get it working, just fidled around in the settings until I found it. But it could simply be that your HDMI cable is of bad quality. How is the picture quality if you run the TVs built in apps? If it is still bad then it is something wrong with TV settings or possibly the TV is broken.

[@mecximusa]

@@a64738 Thanks for reply. I tried to play some youtube contents which I didn't try yet. The image quality still looks quite pixalated comparing to the same content played on my older 50' KU7000k

[@mecximusa]

I have spoke to samsung tech support they said the reason why I am seeing pixalated images because I am settings closer to the tv but the tv is set to the same distance like my older. 50 to 55' frame size will make images pixalated and blurry?

[@mikeaja6053]

may God bless you!!. Was just about to buy another TV 😀 (june/2022)

[@germinationwide4life]

I got a 55" vizio smart tv 4k a few years ago. Unless you are playing 4k, it looks terrible. Very choppy and blocky. I also found an obscure setting that allows the tv to switch between 30hz and 60hz depending on the video. It helped with youtube videos that were jittery. Otherwise great video. You summed up my problem to the t. It wasn't a cheap tv though so I'm surprised it didn't have better hardware to process the upscaling.

[@404010ful]

The reason why it looks better or suppose to look better in a store is because all the soap opera true motion effects are activated in the store to get your eyes to buy it . When it’s home you have to do some calibrating work on it. I turned all my true motion off it doesn’t do anything.

[@harry8040]

I'm literally crying r n T_T . I just bought the LG UN7300 UHD 4K Tv, and I have a SD set-top box , the videos look so blurry im totally dying inside T_T. is there any way to fix it? else will changing my set top box to HD Help? I don't have many channels offering in HD though.

[@zombieblaster5754]

So is this why shows on Netflix look kind of fuzzy or like an old ps2 game? I just got a 1080p tv from a guy and that's what it looks like. I'm running the show through Xbox and normal cable looks the same

[@a64738]

The fuzzy look is because of all the crappy filters and motion interpolation and stuff going on making everything look like a painting viewed trough a layer of vazeline. Turn of all that crap and it will look a lot better and normal... By default every filter is turned on at full.

[@extromous]

..you look like Erend from Horizon Zero Dawn.... /;¬,

[@ryanfurry630]

duuuude i died when i red this!

[@mrpgr2321]

So my very newbie question is : will my hd cable modem would create better image on a 1080p tv than on my 4k tv?

[@Rajesh_0190]

720p TV is ideal for 4 - 6 Mbps speed at a viewing distance of 7 feet for 32 inch, 1080p is ideal for 10 Mbps speed & for 4k TV is 20 Mbps consistent speed

[@josephmelville1]

4k TV don't last long the first part to go is the screen

[@misssparkle8317]

My screen died at 2 yrs

[@shuBafutWarr]

any good video processors?

[@SlotHits777]

You over looked bitrate used at a given resolution, makes a HUGE difference

[@misssparkle8317]

Is that the refresh rate in hz?

[@mdhfilms4299]

4K means 4 times the resolution not twice or “doubly” of 1920x1080

[@randybradley4151]

It's depending how you look at it. 1920x2=3840 and 1080x2=2160.

[@mdhfilms4299]

Randy Bradley no no that’s not how you look at it. Let me explain 1920 by 1080 is equal to 2,073,600 pixels. Then if we do 3840 x 2160 which equals 8,294,400 pixels. The count quadruples which gives the name 4K

[@insanezain2]

@@mdhfilms4299 the guy meant double the pixels looking from one plane (vertical or horizontal plane) not the total area / no. of pixels on the whole screen

[@mdhfilms4299]

Insane Zain I get what you’re saying but he’s talking about 4K which involves both planes not just one or the other

[@mariogomes7336]

I recomend everybody thinking buying a 4k tv watching this Video first. 4k resolution is not even better then 1080p on HD Tv.

[@djwolfville290]

Only the basic mind doesn't like the 4k disc. Streaming doesn't give the full resolution or sound. Especially sound.

[@tylongkicks8821]

Physical Media will always better than streaming material

[@lovelydiva06]

What about a 4K smart tv with nothing hooked to it and you just use the apps for entertainment but the Home Screen of the tv is so fuzzy and blurry how do you fix that

[@Master-zp5pn]

My Samsung 4k TV gives decent gaming quality but i gotta get apps like AppleTv 2 get that 4k Experience😸

[@arlexb1251]

I believe you I have one myself and it looks really good and mine is like 8 years old Sony Bravia 1080p

[@joshgomez7522]

Make sure you don't have HDR on when not watching HDR content and make sure your HDMI cable is 2.0b compatible

[@misssparkle8317]

Solution: "Watch more 4k content 😂" - i need to watch live channels, netflix, and youtube !! Not some pretty 4k landscapes footage with piano music 😂

[@DavidJGillCA]

I've got a $700 Samsung 4K that's a piece of shit.

[@Jorgemtz26]

This made me feel a little better lol. I just got me a 2018 LGUHD 65 in and really down on the quality. Actually my 50 in 12 year old plasma looks way better on HD channels. Go get a good solid 10+ years on my plasma to mess was well worth it. In fact it currently still works and looked better just that on the far left side of the plasma tv about 2 inches worth the colors comes and goes. Other than that it works fine. Do your recommend getting he color processor attachments??

[@rames637]

I have a 65 inch 4k curve series 7 and I cant figure out how to get the blurriness to stop when the camera moves fast or someone runs. I use Netflix on the tv and in 4k but it still gets blurry. I have messed with my settings and nothing. Still blurry

[@nflisrigged1395]

Turn off any motion enhancements Tru motion plus and etc Make sure it's turned off.

[@zerotoninemusic5957]

Same here on a 803oled, blurry and artefacts around the faster moving objects, havent seen smoother playback like plasma on these newer Oled's. It comes with the 4k package... its just like the tv isnt fast enough to align the image right. Even with all motion styles off, it will show judder / stutter. better yet, with motion styles off its worse and i think that philips does that on purpose to king kong their superb P5... that in real life is doing great but not with all content... lets face it, this will only get worse and worse in the future, because the standards of good fluid display aren't there.. and will never come.

[@gtibro6799]

Video game consoles run 4k HDR

[@poyo3582]

It's because you need to 4k content for the 4K TV TOO DISPLAY if display some 1080p content then it's not gonna look right

[@mib20000]

I just bought a Samsung Q9fn 65" and from all the reviews it was the best tv most of the reviewers ever seen. YES in 4k it is stunning. BUT just like this video when watching DISH it sucks. It's not to bad when the picture is bright but when it goes dark it gets grainy and pixelized. This is my second Panel as the first one was horrible on everything except 4k. This is replacing a SONY 55' Bravia HD tv. That tv had a good picture on brights also and really bad pixelized in blacks. Maybe I need a new Dish Box? There should be a setting on the tv that will allow me to set the tv to 1080P or 4K. This way is all you watch is cable/Dish channels it won't have a hard time upscaling

[@detrickbarnes4342]

So what is the best tv to get for xfinity cable? and do it matter what hdmi cables matter?

[@sc0368]

The big box store play preprogrammed show on 4k TV and not from antenna.

[@DDDDD760]

Pich to zoom your photo taken on your smartphone to where get four times as close and you'll see the degregation that results when watching an HD picture on your UHD television.

[@bluedemon218]

My 4K is 55 yet 1920x1080 is able to take up the entire tv. Now some of my Blu-rays look good (but not all blu-ray pic quality is 5/5) but the pic quality doesn't have that color and sharp quality that the TVs have at store could that be due to my HDMI cable?

[@whistlingtechav5804]

It's most likely not the cable. It's probably the video processing. The video processor is what makes the 1080p signal fill your 2160p TV. They're typically showing 4K at the store.

[@guitarman0365]

you have to calibrate your picture too though...dont just turn it on and watch from the box. mess around with your color settings, brightness, contrast, gamma, until you find a picture that looks best to you, oh color tempurature having it set to cold will make everything more blueish and to warm will make everything yellowish consider that when making color adjustments too.

[@Pduwel88]

, thank you so much you explain that perfectly

[@madhurighadge2655]

hi amazing video learnt a lot from it can u suggest the best 4k tv with video processor that can make sd content watchable.

[@TheDawahCenter]

Madhuri Ghadge Has to be the Sony X-Reality Pro series

[@whistlingtechav5804]

I agree with the other commenters! Sony has been the best I've seen.

[@rickhunter8216]

SONY BRAVIA WITH X-REALITY PRO PROCESSOR FIX THE UPSCALING SD TO 4K

[@rickhunter8216]

YES IT IS. I HAVE A SONY BRAVIA.

[@petercseszarik6552]

4 times the resolution of 1080p HD not twice

[@ga7901]

Peter Cseszarik it’s twice

[@petercseszarik6552]

@@ga7901 4X

[@ga7901]

Peter Cseszarik no

[@ga7901]

Peter Cseszarik 4K is 2160p and hd is 1080p

[@petercseszarik6552]

@@ga7901 4K is 4 times higher resolution than Full HD (2K). HD Ready (or simply HD) is 1280 x 720 pixels or 1K. Full HD is 1920 x 1080 pixels or 2K. Ultra HD is 3840 x 2160 pixels or 4K. look it up before you double down on your mistake

[@JohnWilliams47]

Thanks for your info.

[@malibustacy3606]

The Shaw normal coax cable coming out of my wall won't be delivering 4k anytime soon so do I buy 1080 tv for now or a 4k tv for the (hopefully near) future.

[@gthao8849]

I have a samsung qled 7f 65in 4k. I look around youtube and everybody always be saying that sharpness should be turn down and motion plus should be off but trust me. Dont listen to what they say. Everytime you get a new tv. Your eyes havent adjusted to your new tv yet. I turn my sharpness to 100 and my motion plus to custom and put both settings to 10. Put this on movie mode. Brightness and backlight is adjusted to your liking and my contrast is usually 90-100 and color is at 80. Hdr is used for only movies, gaming and youtube ect....If people dont like sharpness and motion plus. Go back to 60hz. Sharpness and motion plus are supposed to be utilize for fast pace movement video on 120hz and 240hz. If you wanna know how to get the best quality pictures for your liking then put on a 4k video on youtube, pause it and adjust the picture quality to your likings.

[@colaboytje]

Exactly, our brains are so used to a lower resolution, are so used to 24 fps content (something that was agreed upon more than 80 years, to make moving images (or movies) look smooth without wasting money on film), that 4K seems to look 'bad' when watching movies. When The Hobbit was released, people and critics said it looked bad because of the higher resolution and 30fps. In fact, it was the opposite: the picture quality was 'too good' for our brains. You now see so much detail that you couldn't see in 1080p and 24fps, which meant that you could see when something was a set piece or prop, you could see the imperfections of the CGI, ... We are going to used to it the more we watch it. In the 60's, 70's, 80's... when we saw a movie, we thought it looked great. Well, now we think they look crap. The thing is: the jump from 1080p to 4k is so big (4 times sharper), that it's like a shock. I watched The Dark Knight Rises yesterday in 4K, and thought: 'jeezes, that Batman costume looks fake like plastic'. Guess what: it is fake and made out of plastic. :-)

[@GMann_007]

Sharpness set at 100. My gosh dude, you are clipping your settings. Please post a video. Don’t want to be negative. Just surprised you’re pushing your tv. Cheers.

[@Chieftain357]

I will just keep my 10 year old plasma until the get more 4k.

[@BigDaddyJinx]

My 12 year old 50" Sammy is still chugging along just fine. Nothing really wrong with it. But I still went out and finally bought a 55" Sammy HDR TV. Mostly for the power consumption difference. That old plasma sucks up a LOT of power and I watch a lot of TV. I like the heat it sends off in the winter time, but it's a bane come summer days. So I'd rather turn the heat up a tad in winter and at least be able to survive and watch TV come summer. I'll miss my plasma but keep it around as a backup if this one ever shits the bed and needs work.

[@EmmettLBrown2015]

I bought a UHDTV and when I play a game and it shows things up close like a spear or knife it looks a bit ridgit like a little blocky..

[@austinworldwide2915]

I have a 32” vizio got for $100 at target and I recently got a 65” 4K uhd led all the stuff and the smaller one u can literally see the sweat on your horse in red dead 2 and the big one looks like I’m playing on Xbox 360 again

[@scottyj737]

Weather. It is a part of life.

[@HWolfe]

New Subbie! You are EXECELLENT! Filled some gaps about my kick butt 75"!

[@Christian-XV]

We just bought a 4k TV with fire tv built in to watch while on the treadmill. We are not hooking up to cable just using the fire tv apps. I know I can't achieve 4k over wifi. Our home has google fiber gigabit internet. I have an apple airport extreme router near the treadmill. Will I achieve 4k if I connect a 20 foot cat 5 or 6 cable from the tv to that router?

[@whistlingtechav5804]

The short answer is yes, connecting the ethernet cable will work best. You might be able to get 4k over Wifi if your router is close and you get speeds over 25 Mbps download. But, if it's easy to connect the cable, just do that.

[@bobgould974]

Great information .Thanks .

[@petercseszarik6552]

false information

[@abcbatman1966]

Why does 4K make everything look like its shot on videotape?

[@lolabolt5982]

abcbatman1966 I want to know the same thing why and how

[@WeerdScienceTV]

It doesn’t. That’s the soap opera look right? I got a 4K and it fed doesn’t do that. I can’t stand that setting. It drives me nuts

[@a64738]

By default modern 4k TVs have all kinds of filters, motion interpolation, and similar turned on by default. Turn of all that crap and it will start to look more natural and normal as most of thees make things look worse not better...

[@daughterearth9]

@@a64738 how do you turn all of the filters and stuff off??

[@a64738]

​@@daughterearth9 On my 9 year old LG 42" TV you turn of all filters in the menus (clearly marked). But on my new 55" Samsung it is a lot more complicated because they have tried to make it easy and less complicated. The manual give you no help as it only say how to hook it up and turn it on, rest you must figure out by yourself (easy and less complicated my a ...) But I have on my own by testing input response figured out that it seems to turn of ALL filters automatically when the Samsung is connected to a computer. I also had trouble with that it would only use 30hz or 60hz with limited dynamic range and the last one gave distorted colors with no way of correcting it (unlike the old LG tv where correcting for that was easy). But after fiddling around on my own I found out by accident that I could turn on support for HDMI2 and full color, very strange that they would leave something like that turned of by default making the TV usless as PC monitor... I already miss my 9 year old 42" LG tv as that was much less complicated and easy to use because there was no hidden automatic settings with no explanations what it would do. That old TV had more advanced settings then a professional high end monitor when you dared to wander into the expert. I was using it as a high end professional monitor for 1/3 of the price and all those settings did come in handy... Now it seems impossible to get a TV that is not made so simple that you can not adjust anything by yourself anymore...

[@EtherMagic]

These things you bring up are obvious facts everyone should know before shelling out Hundreds if not thousands of dollars on a new TV. Thats the problem, no one educates themselves beforehand then bitches about it after they blindly hand their money over. 😣

[@dobrocop]

Hi, enjoying your videos, just wondered if maybe you could suggest a fix to my LG55LA970W 4K TV , it has the 4k Panel hdmi 2.00 hardware upgrade, after nearly 5 years trouble free it suddenly started to get extremely slow changing channels ,when i press the up or down the picture goes off but the sound of the channel is still on, and eventually after 20 or 30 seconds will change to the selected channel , and the only cure is to switch off the power while the TV is on and let it sit for 5 mins and switch on power again , then it works for a few days and suddenly starts the same slow channel switching problem again,,any ideas ?.,this is just in hope of finding a clue on what to do , i understand if you dont answer this but it would be great to find out an answer,,, this in not a Remote/battries thing ,its only the tv, cheers. and happy new year..

[@Joao-ur7ey]

In the KZbin, there's some 4K videos there are awful in my TV and others there are simply gorgeous, especially those with HDR technology. Even on Netflix this happens. It's like the image have an excessive of "granulation". Something like this image on this link: www.cameraneon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/iso-granulacao-e-ruido-na-fotografia-digital-e-analogica-1-.jpg It would be interesting to know why this occurs and how to fix it (considering that it's possible). Some 1080p content looks like 720p too. I bought a Sony Bravia KD-X705F. Unfortunately I never found a review for this model.

[@chrizzis77]

Or you could just not get a cheap tv. The better TVs also of course have better processors so the non 4k signals get up scaled to simulated 4k and look amazing. I have a Samsung QLED and couldn’t be happier.

[@misssparkle8317]

Which model please? I had a sony KD50X89J (2021) which upscaled perfectly and replaced it with the same price/spec KD50X75WL (2023) which upscales terribly 😢

[@johnmimms9167]

I brought a 4 series tcl 4k tv. On 4k movies it is an ubelievable picture! Just using xbox one for 4k movies

[@Rajesh_0190]

HD broadcast is not 720p its actually 540p... So when you put on 4k TV it will stretch the image 👀

[@Noticerofthings]

In America cable is 720p or 1080i.

[@Rajesh_0190]

@@Noticerofthings its compressed video you'll see more of micro blocks and other artifact's.

[@marigriffith1]

Hey guy....Sorry, I didn't get a name on your vid. So I finally got into the 21st century and just bought a TCL 4K 65" Roku TV. My screen is not sharp and focused so I checked out your vid on that issue. So I can only assume that to correct this issue is either JUST watch 4K TV on it or purchase one of those units that you mentioned. What I don't understand is that the network channels do broadcast in HD, so why wouldn't it pick that up? I do understand (kind of), the 720 and 1080 resolution thing, however, I was really hoping that you would guide me through some sort of walk-thru in my setting to correct it. No? Not do-able huh? Well crap...… Anyway, if something has come up since you posted that video back in 2017, would you mind messaging me or something if possible? Thanks so much.

[@HugeTheWarningFan]

I recently acquired an HDTV by LG and noticed the black widescreen bars aren't all the way dark when I'm sitting in different positions. When I'm lying slightly to the left, the top right hand corner has a grayness to it. The bar starts out black from the left top but becomes lighter as its reaches the right top. I get up and move to the right and now the left widescreen bar is darker...? Is this because it's an LED, and not and OLED?

[@a64738]

Yes it is because it is a LCD panel, most likely of TN or VA type as they have larger problems with that if you do not sit right on front of the tv the colors and black gets distorted (low viewing angle). IPS LCD screens have less of this problem and OLED have not this problem at all. Qled VA LCD screens have less problem then normal VA LCD screens (QLED has nothing to do with OLED as QLED is also LCD unlike OLED that have no LCD screen at)

[@rubbishgamingtv3792]

Can you help please? I’m using the sky tv app on a Xbox one X on a hitachi 55” 4K tv but the resolution looks better in a mini player than full screen for some reason

[@vasantharajraju9407]

I am in India, I have a plan to buy Sony Bravia XR 4K smart tv 55" OLED TV to replace my 11 years old Sony KDL-40EX720 [40'], not smart tv, no bluetooth, sound is low when I see OTT like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Hotstar, but in normal TV HD channels are good. When I saw this new OLED TV in retail showroom, as you said demo video files of movie clips, nature video files, and some 4k quality videos only running, but when I asked the sales person to change to HD TV channels to know the picture and sound quality, I am shocked to see the HD channel of English channels such as star movies, the video pixels are not crispy, clear, looks like blurry smooth, not looks as same quality as like I saw in my own 40inch resolution of 1080p. Now I am upset whether to buy Sony Bravia XR 4K 55" OLED TV or not? is there any settings to change to look as same quality of 1080p in this 4K 55" OLED TV ? if not, then what to do now? To look into any other TV in 1080p for 55" for smart tv, not to buy OLED Tv for Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos? Please help me to give suggestions to have smart tv, bluetooth, dolby vision, Dolby Atmos, good sound and picture quality with 120 hz refresh rate, apple air play, chrome cast built in, google tv, etc......?

[@RKoen2006]

Blu ray lookes good on any 4k tv its the cable and vhs and low quality dvd but every thing else's looks very good on every 4K TV's.

[@BartSubelack]

what! this video is not in 4k????

[@CCCC-tq8yo]

It's notb😭