Aug 07, 2015 03:33 PM
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This 49" UHD TV came home in less than 12 hours after placing the order and was easy for self install, being so light. To my utter surprise, the installation person too showed up within couple of hours after delivery, did demo more features and did the wall mounting in a jiffy! Great experience indeed... Now, here is some critical feedback -
1) Picture quality - For best quality, choose "USER" and set the range of brightness to 60-70, contrast to 25-30, colour to 25-30, sharpness to 30-50, backlight to 0-30 (depending on daylight brightness).
2) HDMI 1080p (50p) has issues - This Micromax TV (with HDMI 1.4) has problem synchronizing to 1080p properly. I tried a high end cable with filter-traps and it did improve a lot with only some white-spot-noise remaining (I went back to 1080i-50Hz and found that the quality is superb with this high-end HDMI cable). My satellite box did work well with (previous) Philips HDTV in the 1080-50p mode, so the receiver on that Philips TV is made of better SNR handling than this Micromax.
The TV apparently does the progressive upscaling to its UHD screen, so it kind of works out fine I guess. I connected up my Roku box and the Micromax TV syncs at 1080p-50Hz perfectly with the Roku, even with cheaper HDMI cable. So, must be Videocon D2H box has weak signal strength at 1080p. I do not have a 4K source yet, so have not been able to test for 4K HDMI modes.
