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Samsung HP-T5064 Additional Notes and Technical Ratings
Under the Hood | Adjustment Notes | Test Discs | Technical Ratings
Under the Hood
A feature called Anynet+ is Samsung’s implementation of HDMI-CEC (Consumer Electronics Control), a standardized protocol for sending control messages via the HDMI connection. HDMI-CEC allows multiple devices connected with HDMI cables to be controlled in an integrated manner from one remote, but in the case of the HP-T5064, this feature only works with other Samsung Anynet+ products.
The Ultra FilterBright Plus anti-reflection filter helps reduce room reflections, and color is processed with 18-bit resolution, resulting in smoother color gradations. A special Game mode optimizes the set for gaming by speeding up the image processing, sharpening the picture, and “enhancing dark areas.”
Adjustment Notes
Only the Movie picture mode provides access to all picture controls. Contrast could be maxed out without clipping whites, brightness was too high by default, color and tint were close to correct out of the box. Peak and ANSI contrast were better than most. Grayscale was reasonably close to correct at Warm2 color-temp setting; color primaries were also close to correct, except that green was somewhat undersaturated.
Test Discs
On the HQV Benchmark DVD, detail was excellent, and jaggies were virtually non-existent. Digital noise reduction didn’t seem to do much, but noise wasn’t much of a problem anyway, even with DNR off. The set’s processor picked up 3:2 pulldown at 480i very quickly, but only when Film mode is on (it’s off by default).
The set’s processor performed very well on the HQV Benchmark HD DVD’s video-resolution loss test, but not on the film-resolution loss test. Jaggies remained nearly invisible. Microsoft engineer Stacey Spears’ test disc revealed that the processor does not pick up 3:2 pulldown at 1080i, but the test clip didn’t exhibit nearly as many artifacts as other sets I’ve seen. More than 30 pixels are cropped from each edge of the image in the 16:9 aspect-ratio setting, but this set also has a setting called Just Scale that reduces overscan to only a few pixels. This is a very unusual and welcome feature.
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