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• Steven Wolff says:

  March 22, 2016 at 1:33 pm

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  How To Get Rid of The SOAP OPERA EFFECT and enjoy this beautiful 4K TV… , December 2, 2015

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  Steven Wolff (Vancouver, WA) –

  This review is from: Samsung UN48JU6400 48-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2015 Model) (Electronics)

  Disclaimer: I bought this TV at BestBuy only because it was five minutes away and Amazon/Best Buy price match. That said…

  This is a beautiful TV and recently I learned that the “too real” look can be fixed!!! It’s called the Soap Opera Effect and there’s lots of videos on Youtube if you use that word in the search bar. However, I’m going to save you time by saying it comes down to adjusting the judder setting. Here’s how you do it…

  Click on Picture> Picture Options> Scoll down to Auto Motion Plus>Click Custom.
  You should see a slider bar called JUDDER. Scroll to 0 (Zero) and you have a standard TV look. Scroll to 10 (Ten) and you have the Soap Opera Effect (everything looks like behind the scenes on a set.) ~ The closer you are to zero, the lesser the SOE. For me, a nice balance is 5 on this TV, but adjust it to your liking.

  Back to my review: Now that’s out of the way, I like how Netflix, Youtube, and other stations can come up quickly. It has a quad-core processor and is very responsive to me. It transitions easily from cable to my PS4 to Netflix, depending on which HDMI I want. Folks, keep in mind – this is a 4K TV… most of these cost several thousand dollars. In five years or so, they will only be a few hundred bucks. This price point of $599 for a 48″ as of this posting – is one hella of a deal. Can’t go wrong – go ahead and buy it!

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• Jennifer Clark says:

  March 22, 2016 at 2:28 pm

  249 of 284 people found the following review helpful

  
  Good price, but features are hit-and-miss, November 10, 2015

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  Jennifer Clark –

  This review is from: Samsung UN55JU6400 55-inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2015 Model) (Electronics)

  For an inexpensive 4K TV, this isn’t too bad, but there are some issues. The picture is sharp, motion is smooth, and colors pop very nicely. However, it’s rather obvious that Samsung cut some corners to hit this price point. The smart features are nice, but the processor is woefully underpowered to handle basic tasks. It is nice that Samsung included a built-in channel guide for users who watch over-the-air broadcast, but the lag is terrible when scrolling through the guide. Like many modern channel guides, you get a quarter-screen-size picture of the channel you are currently watching and the rest of the screen is taken up by the guide. For whatever reason though, when you scroll through the guide both the guide and the channel you are watching completely stop while the next page takes up to five seconds to load. It’s disappointing that this TV can flawlessly stream 4K content, yet can’t seem to handle flipping through pages of a channel guide. Regardless, since I consider a channel guide to be icing on the cake and not a core feature, I can overlook that easily. What is harder to overlook is the inconsistent backlight performance. During dark scenes or when watching a program with letterboxes on the top and bottom, there is a very distracting light blob in the bottom center of my screen. This can be fixed somewhat by turning the backlight way down, but the resulting picture is so dim it’s hardly worth it. We actually traded in a similarly-priced 2014 Samsung model for this one because it too had backlight problems. Unfortunately, this seems to be a common problem with at least their lower-end 4K televisions. Samsung also cut back on some features compared to last year’s equivalent model, too. You get fewer connections in the rear, and the remote no longer has light-up keys, which kind of stinks if you like to watch TV in the dark.

  Overall, it’s a pretty good TV, but it has some noteworthy flaws. If you can stand a laggy interface and some pretty glaring inconsistencies in the black levels, it’s a good TV for the price. If you want a snappy interface and even black levels, look elsewhere.

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• L. Nieman says:

  March 22, 2016 at 2:28 pm

  126 of 147 people found the following review helpful

  
  Major Flashlighting and poor blacks…, November 27, 2015

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  This review is from: Samsung UN55JU6400 55-inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV (2015 Model) (Electronics)

  I have always loved Samsung TVs but this one is horrible for any darker room or dark scenes… This picture was taken with the lights off and the lighting settings adjusted to a tolerable level just before the screen gets too dark. As you can see there’s major flashlighting and poor blacks, so much so I have to return my new 4K…

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