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Discussion in 'Technology Advice' started by bigmac, Dec 27, 2021.

  1. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    Ive noticed on Fplay catch up tv there are some programmes in UHD. My TV isnt UHD--and watching these is awful--the colour is way off--red faces--and the screen is dull and foggy. I cant find a way to switch these out of UHD.

    The worry is--if all progs are going to be in UHD--will i need yet another newer better telly ?
  2. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    What's Fplay?

    UHD is essentially 4K and all the subsampled variants down to HD, there are 4 times as many pixels in an uncompressed UHD stream, this should not make any difference to how you view it on a TV, the only thing that would cause big variations in colour would be the colour space like Adobe vs SRGB or maybe some attempt to output a high dynamic range signal direct to a device that doesn't have enough bits to display it faithfully and if your TV is just HD then it is probably not an HDR set either.

    Is this a computer to TV thing or and app running on a smart TV, I mean silly things like the content being selected (Ctrl+A) on the PC causing incorrect display could be possible but would need to know how everything is hooked up.
  3. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    purely on tv. its a smart tv with free view play for catching up previous progs and ( when available) future episodes in a series.
  4. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Can you borrow a TV that can play UHD video from one of your friends?

    Or, this 43" TV is an amazing price:


    You can return the TV to Amazon soon after if it's not what you want.
    It is £279 on the webpage rather than £299 that the link brings up so you'd have to contact Amazon for clarification.
  5. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    no--i dont want uhd --the normal set up is fine--excellent pictures ( except for the content--mostly unwatchable). I just dont want to be forced to buy an upgraded set to be able to see what ive already got.
  6. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Is it this What is Freeview Play? | Freeview

    If that is it then it supports FHD and 4K and should adapt as required the device or app would know you could not do 4K and would only stream at FHD there is something else going on here.
  7. bigmac
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    ok--the 3 part play was about the duke of argyll divorce. Part one was on already--and it was transmitted in ordinary ( HD ? )--but with an option to watch in UHD by pressing red button on handset--which i did--and the picture was awful--so i reverted back.

    But part 2 and 3 have not been broadcast yet--BUT are available on freeview --but only in UHD. So we watched them--with difficulty.
  8. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    What does the bold text mean? It seems contradictory o_O
  9. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    I think he means the stories, movies or programmes are crap :D
  10. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    I thought parts 2 and 3 of "A Very British Scandal" were very good...imho.
    Last edited: Dec 28, 2021
  11. Aromulus
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    Aromulus The Don Staff Member

    We had a 49" Toshiba 4K UHD for a couple of years now and it never ceases to amaze me every day . Crisp picture and good colours.
    The only drawback is the sound........... The wife never stops drowning it with her constant klingon mutterings on the phone with her friends
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  12. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    I think he means in general not that specific series.
  13. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    the normal picture is excellent--but what is on usually--is not: game shows. football, dancing contests, football, "talent shows", football. i loathe football. Why cant it have its own dedicated channel ? pay to view naturally. Rugby--licence to kill. Should be banned completely.
  14. bigmac
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    bigmac Well-Known Member Trusted Member

    they were--just that they were in UHD--which looked awful on my tv. Do you have a UHD set then ?
  15. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    No.
    Our Samsung TV "ue40h4203ak" is HD.
    We have a Sky HD box and a PlayStation 5 connected to it.
    It has an excellent picture on both.
  16. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    I bought a 4K UHD set for less than £360 in June 2016, at the time Netflix and the likes were only streaming some 4K content same for Amazon Prime video and BBC iPlayer.

    Now it is another matter, 4 times as detailed as an HD picture and you really can see the difference, now the majority of new content being streamed is 4K but the set I bought still does fine with it.

    This is a smartphone picture so you will never see what it really looks like but the colours are faithful to the intent of the director and it is incredibly sharp again you won't see this on a stills capture from a TV screen. The only additional requirement is a good enough broadband connection for 4K but almost everyone has a good enough connection for FHD already and most people are fine for 4K speeds on their broadband as well.
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  17. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    You need one with bluetooth so you can sit........no, just get a man cave with another TV inside :lol:
  18. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Is the second photo meant to mean something deeper? :lol:
  19. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Did you solve the problem?
  20. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    I took pictures of "The Expanse" which I had been watching but realised that given it was in a dark spacecraft and had a strong colour cast it would not support my point about good colour rendition, "Good Omens" and the temptation of Eve scene just happened to be something I had recently watched and had some decent colour.

    David Tennent played the demon Crowley and voiced him as the serpent :D

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