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Essentials HD Basics
as aids for adjusting. First adjust the television’s picture controls for the
best possible picture. Once that is done, try changing the player’s settings to further refine the
picture to the optimal result.
4.
Hue
: Allows you to adjust the hue (tint) of the video output.
5.
Saturation
: Allows you to adjust the saturation (color intensity level) of the video output.
6.
Sharpness:
Allows you to set the sharpness of video output. Sharpness (also called Detail/Edge
Enhancement in previous
Electrocompaniet
players) is a video processing function that can control the
image sharpness but at the same time may cause unwanted artifacts.
For
HDMI 1
, the sharpness level can be set between -16 and +16. The default is level 0, which
turns off sharpness enhancement. The negative levels may be used to reduce or eliminate overly
sharpened video. However, the picture may appear soft. The positive levels increase the
sharpness.
At level 1, the player applies low level Detail Enhancement, during which the video
processor isolates the detailed parts from the original image, processes them separately
and integrates back before the final output.
At level 2, the player increases Detail Enhancement to a higher level. Generally, to make an
image “sharper”, we recommend using level 1 and 2.
At level 3 and above, the player adds Luminance Transition Improvement (LTI) and Chroma
Transition Improvement (CTI), which further sharpen the luminance transition and chroma
transition. However, we do not recommend using level 3 and above unless the source
content is poorly produced and blurry.
For
HDMI 2 OUT
, the sharpness level can be set between 0 and +2. The default is level 0. The
higher the level, the sharper the video details are. However, too high a sharpness level may
cause white lines or halo-like effects to appear around objects.
7.
Noise Reduction
: Allows you to select whether the player will apply video noise reduction
processing.
For
HDMI 1
, the noise reduction level can be set between 0 and 8. The default is level 0, which
turns off noise reduction.
When set to level 1, the player adjusts the picture quality by reducing the “mosquito noise”
(artifacts around the outlines of objects) and “block noise” (mosaic-like patterns caused by
video compression). These two noise reduction methods are also called Compression
Artifacts Reduction (CAR) and have several levels of aggressiveness.
When set to level 2, the player applies the Motion Adaptive Video Noise Reduction (VNR),
which handles the random noise and the film-grain noise (natural variation of picture
intensity caused by film grain). Its level is automatic because there is noise estimator
circuitry in the video processor that calculates how much noise is present and adjusts the
level of VNR accordingly.
When set to 3 or 4, the player applies both CAR and Motion Adaptive VNR, with more
aggressive “block noise” reduction at level 4.
At level 5, the player applies aggressive CAR for low quality video content, and adds
Motion Adaptive VNR at level 6.
At level 7, the player applies the most aggressive CAR for very low quality video, and adds
Motion Adaptive VNR at level 8.
