Tip for Samsung 4K TVs

[mallbritton]

I've been struggling to get the best possible picture out of my Samsung TV and Apple TV 4K (3rd gen) combination. This weekend I found an obscure setting in the TV's settings that brings it all together for me.

The issue was, the TV was not displaying the content in HDR10+, when I was certain I should be seeing that. All I was getting was UHD HDR, in pretty much all 4K content.

My TV is a Samsung UN50TU7000FXZA, which does support HDR10+. The setting is called Input Signal Plus and is located in the settings at General > External Device Manager > Input Signal Plus. Set both radio buttons to ON. According to the TV this setting "Expands the input signal range for HDMI connections."

As I mentioned, this setting pulled everything together for me and now 4K content is displaying correctly. The documentary "Secrets of the Elephants," on Disney+ looks absolutely GEORGEOUS.

Hope this helps other folks.

 

[dsaponaro]

always curious about this setting. On my samsung frame I have it set to on for all inputs. My question is what is the benefit to actually turn it off? anyone know of any reason why?

 

[mallbritton]

From my perspective, turning the setting off prevents me from getting full benefit from the TV. 😁

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I do not recall turning this on on my Samsung but it is on. It may have automatically-on'd when content was tossed to it with HDR10+... or perhaps in the original setup of the TV, but that pre-dated AppleTVs offering HDR10+ support.

It might auto-set when the HDMI cable quality test is run on AppleTV too... or when one manually chooses an HDR setting in the AppleTV menu.