Samsung are clearly cheating, as the smaller the area, the higher the peak brightness can be. There is no rational explanation as to why a 9% coverage white box should display with a lower brightness than a 10% coverage white box except the software knows that 10% is the exact area used in brightness tests, and has a little if(area>9.9&&area<10.1) maxbrightness*=2 buried somewhere in it.
Samsung accused of cheating on hardware benchmarks ... again
Samsung has once again been accused of cheating in benchmark tests to inflate the apparent abilities of its hardware. The South Korean titan was said to have unfairly goosed Galaxy Note 3 phone benchmarks in 2013, and faced with similar allegations about the Galaxy S4 in 2018 settled that matter for $13.4 million. This time …
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Thursday 16th June 2022 05:31 GMT Kevin McMurtrie
Until we have inorganic LED TVs, both technology options are needed. LCD looks good in bright rooms but it can't be an amazing theater screen. It leaks light and has visible manufacturing variances, especially off-center. OLED has perfect blacks and looks better for more seating locations.
Unfortunately, OLED is inefficient and wears out. There's a fairly low peak brightness to avoid aging. In addition, there's a maximum global brightness to prevent excessive current through the panel. Some OLED TVs are like sports cars - they'll run beyond 100% for a limited time then back-off power. Early models backed-off so much that they are easily mistaken for defective.
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Thursday 16th June 2022 07:45 GMT Lord Elpuss
Samsung are scum. At least as far as televisions are concerned. I'm on my 2nd Sammy 65", both have broken shortly after the 2-year warranty expired. The first developed a bright yellow line 1/3 of the way up the screen, my current one has lost every 10th horizontal line. Both faults are ribbon cable related, neither is covered by warranty and Samsung will do exactly nothing to help out. In the EU we have Fitness for Purpose legislation, Sammy's response is: take us to court.
The second - and arguably bigger - issue is that my TV has started pumping ads across the Smart Hub dock. Sammy added this as a 'feature' shortly after I bought my TV, and retroactively updated their T&Cs to say they were allowed to do it. I never signed up for that. My TV has now been fully disconnected from the Internet and serves as a dumb monitor only, but every time I switch between sources it throws up a message saying it's not connected to the Internet. Annoying doesn't even start to describe it.
I personally will NEVER buy a Samsung television again, regardless of how 'good' they sound on paper.
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Thursday 16th June 2022 12:10 GMT tip pc
Re: Got an old HDTV here
all my HDTV's are still running
2006 Samsung R series lcd 720p
2006 Panasonic vierra 37" plasma 720p
2012 Panasonic viera 50" plasma 1080p
2020 Panasonic Viera 55% oled 4k
2020 LG 40" LED 4k
2022 LG 50" LED 4k
the 2 LG LED's combined cost less than a quarter of each of those Viera's.
That 2006 Vierra is still going strong and shows a great picture. That 2006 Samsung is best for showing cartoons as the picture is great when showing uniform colours.
The LG 4k's compared to the Panasonic OLED show are not as smooth especially when showing sports & yes I've turned off all the gimmicks on both & am seeing similar things when comparing dolby vision on all 3 too, even side by side.
The LG's on their own show a great picture, its just that the OLED is clear and obviously better on a side by side comparison.
funnily enough 2012 plasma 1080p vs 2020 oled 4k vs 2020 lg led 4k watching sports and the plasma shows the most natural picture then the oled.
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Thursday 16th June 2022 21:29 GMT tip pc
Re: Got an old HDTV here
Mine was bought 2008 or 2009
previous CRT in 1999
Trinitron WEGA or equivalent?
Some quality crt’s where still valid until demolished by quality fhd sets.
My first Samsung was because my Philips widescreen crt stopped working when I moved home, it was just out of warranty and house insurance replaced it with the sanding r series, I’m sure I paid more in increased premiums than the r series cost.
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Monday 27th June 2022 13:47 GMT MJI
Re: Got an old HDTV here
Eeek booted up in installation mode and screen in black white this morning.
Changed to an HDMI (Humax HDR) input and back PHEW
Now to check new TVs just in case.
Oh dear
And I still use a few SCART.
PVR on HDMI, 2 consoles on HDMI, DVD, console RGB, video camera special leads to component.
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Thursday 16th June 2022 14:25 GMT Bartholomew
The truth is in there somewhere, just not obvious.
"Samsung Electronics does not use any algorithm for the purpose of yielding specific test results."
Samsung Electronics only uses algorithms for the purpose of yielding optimal results for generic benchmark tests.
That is how I would interpret the statement, if it was issued in legally correct double speak - which is generally used by government spy agencies (we do not spy on anyone, we do harvest vast quantities of data and have many computers process that data, but unless a human actually looks at the results then we have not surveilled anyone their fourth amendment rights are intact. 2013-03-12 Youtube video where James Clapper tells Senator Ron Wyden that the NSA does not collect data on millions of American, this was the tipping point or trigger event for Edward Snowden who left the US 2013-05-20).