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sniper007 · 20-09-2010, 19:52

I think it's a typical change thing. Something changes and they feel that somehow they are losing out and hence they over analyse a picture that is in no way different to their old STB. I have owned both at one point (before our SA box died) and now have 2 Samsungs instead. What I am about to tell you is the act of a sad obsessed geek yes, but the point is I'm anal about this kind of thing and would like to think if I cannot see a difference, there is no difference. When I first got an additional STB upstairs it was a Samsung and so I had one Sa and one Samsung in the house. I set them both up with the same HDMI lead (two identical ones) and flicked between channels in HD and SD for a few days (much to my ladies annoyance) and I guarantee you, there is no difference between them in picture quality. Not with colour reproduction, motion blur, sharpness, contrast. Nothing. If there is a difference my mates and I can't detect one. As I said, sad, but this was when the Samsung box was quite new and so we decided to check it out.

Maybe the OP simply was comparing the sharper menus on the Samsung, which scales them properly for 1080p right?

20-09-2010, 19:52	#23
sniper007 Inactive Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 480	Re: Samsung V+ Box, what a difference! I think it's a typical change thing. Something changes and they feel that somehow they are losing out and hence they over analyse a picture that is in no way different to their old STB. I have owned both at one point (before our SA box died) and now have 2 Samsungs instead. What I am about to tell you is the act of a sad obsessed geek yes, but the point is I'm anal about this kind of thing and would like to think if I cannot see a difference, there is no difference. When I first got an additional STB upstairs it was a Samsung and so I had one Sa and one Samsung in the house. I set them both up with the same HDMI lead (two identical ones) and flicked between channels in HD and SD for a few days (much to my ladies annoyance) and I guarantee you, there is no difference between them in picture quality. Not with colour reproduction, motion blur, sharpness, contrast. Nothing. If there is a difference my mates and I can't detect one. As I said, sad, but this was when the Samsung box was quite new and so we decided to check it out. Maybe the OP simply was comparing the sharper menus on the Samsung, which scales them properly for 1080p right?