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Brian Gaff wrote:
You know increasingly I'm noting that the young uns seem to be listening
to all their music on crap gear. IE many of the sound systems for multi
room use are 1 mono speaker or one speaker with s speakers facing
different ways. Look at the amazon Echo, or the output form I phones etc.

Very true. Convenience seems much more important to many than sound
quality.

Not just the young. Many my age have thrown out very good sound systems to
replace them with something modern which sounds vastly inferior.

TV sound is even more obvious. TV sets have never had really good internal
sound systems - but modern widescreen sets with tiny rear facing speakers
are just a very bad joke.

It's odd, given that many cars now have quite respectable sound systems.

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Huge wrote:
TV sound is even more obvious. TV sets have never had really good
internal sound systems - but modern widescreen sets with tiny rear
facing speakers are just a very bad joke.

It's worse than that. The £500 sound bar that came with my new Samsung
(spit) 65" TV is a PoS. Another one of the multitude of reasons I hate
the damn thing.

Some sound bars are a vast improvement on the internal speakers, so you've
been very unlucky. But mine is fed to the Hi-Fi, so not a problem here.

I had a Samsung 55", bought in a panic. No matter how I fiddled, I
couldn't get half decent flesh tones. Faces always looked like cartoons.

Luckily it broke down just out of warranty. Power supply fault. No rush to
replace, so ended up with a 60" Panasonic. Just about right straight out
of the box.

Samsung now fixed and in the spare room. Looking just as awful as ever.
Perhaps they are designed for oriental flesh tones?

But I like my Samsung phone. Super camera. ;-)

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On 21/01/17 13:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Samsung now fixed and in the spare room. Looking just as awful as ever.
Perhaps they are designed for oriental flesh tones?

Donald Trump?

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Adrian C

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Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 21/01/17 13:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Samsung now fixed and in the spare room. Looking just as awful as ever.
Perhaps they are designed for oriental flesh tones?

Donald Trump?

Or, for those with memories, Des O'Connor. More Polyfilla and Dulux than
makeup.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Bit unfair on des. I used to see him live and most of the time he looked
better than on the screen. I strongly dispute this old thing of the camera
never lies. I think that very much depends on how its adjusted in the first
place.
Brian

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In article ,
Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 21/01/17 13:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Samsung now fixed and in the spare room. Looking just as awful as ever.
Perhaps they are designed for oriental flesh tones?

Donald Trump?

Or, for those with memories, Des O'Connor. More Polyfilla and Dulux than
makeup.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Bit unfair on des. I used to see him live and most of the time he looked
better than on the screen. I strongly dispute this old thing of the camera
never lies. I think that very much depends on how its adjusted in the
first place.
Brian

Yes. White balance.

Iain

On 22/01/2017 09:52, Iain Churches wrote:
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Bit unfair on des. I used to see him live and most of the time he looked
better than on the screen. I strongly dispute this old thing of the camera
never lies. I think that very much depends on how its adjusted in the
first place.
Brian

Yes. White balance.


More to do with make-up and lighting, the white balance on the camera
should be neutral.


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But often is not, as one clearly see when the director cuts from one camera to another. In this situation, makeup and lighting are unchanged.

Iain

In article ,
Brian Gaff wrote:
Bit unfair on des. I used to see him live and most of the time he looked
better than on the screen. I strongly dispute this old thing of the
camera never lies. I think that very much depends on how its adjusted
in the first place.

Or the makeup he used on TV?

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Dave Plowman London SW
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No I suspect that its just that the software is rubbish. Most things these
days seem to rely on software to clean up otherwise naff content. Not sure
what is real any more. I'm told my first flat screen, an unknown madke looks
very good, but since I myself cannot see it its only used when somebody
sighted is here.

This is what irks me about the current situation where only tvs seem to
include spoken menusues not pvrs.
Brian

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On 21/01/17 13:47, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Samsung now fixed and in the spare room. Looking just as awful as ever.
Perhaps they are designed for oriental flesh tones?

Donald Trump?

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