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[geoffr70]

Where's the graphics display menu? If it's in control panel I can't find it, although I am on xp anyway!

I've got a d-sub cable I think it's called. A blue plug with 15 pins that you have to screw in, like the really old printer cables. The tv knows it's there but says there is no signal. I assumed because I had a tv out socket it would work orbe activated but can't find the graphics display menu on pc.

As for the sound not being set up right, I don't think it's that. It's a samsung tv which I know is meant to be of reasonable quality but this is absolute cack. The speakers are at the back, and there is no bass response whatsoever resulting in an awful tinny sound that is unbearable, and due to the empty sound it is very hard to understand what people are saying. If you turn up the bass and/or the volume to only s third it results in clipping (commonly but incorrectly referred to as distortion). My old samsung fat tv is 10 times better than this. Im more of a sound than vision person, but this is absolutely atrocious and i just can't believe that a make, held in high regard such as samsung can sell this quality of stuff and think it's acceptable. What's worse is that people put up with it.

Well as it's a gift I'll have to try and get the receipt and take it back. Utter rubbish. Not only that i prefer the picture from my old tv.

Clipping is correctly described as distortion.  In fact it is odd-harmonic distortion, primarily third harmonic.

I have a Samsung flat-panel tv and am not happy with it although I have decided to live with it for now.  It sometimes manages to get its Freeview decoder into a state where the sound is tinny and echoey.  A powerdown is needed to resolve this.

It is the second one I owned as I bounced the first one for vision problems but the replacement is the same.  CowboysTechnicians came and switched off Dynamic Contrast at the request of Samsung to minimise the vision fault.
Nuff said.

Clipping isn't correctly described as distortion. Distortion is a misnomer. Clipping is where the ampifier isn't capable of delivering the specified power to the speakers. This results in peak output not being delivered, and a broken sound, which many people think is too much power being delivered to the speakers causing poor sound, and then incorrectly call it distortion.

[Chris_H]

Where's the graphics display menu? If it's in control panel I can't find it, although I am on xp anyway!

I've got a d-sub cable I think it's called. A blue plug with 15 pins that you have to screw in, like the really old printer cables. The tv knows it's there but says there is no signal. I assumed because I had a tv out socket it would work orbe activated but can't find the graphics display menu on pc.

As for the sound not being set up right, I don't think it's that. It's a samsung tv which I know is meant to be of reasonable quality but this is absolute cack. The speakers are at the back, and there is no bass response whatsoever resulting in an awful tinny sound that is unbearable, and due to the empty sound it is very hard to understand what people are saying. If you turn up the bass and/or the volume to only s third it results in clipping (commonly but incorrectly referred to as distortion). My old samsung fat tv is 10 times better than this. Im more of a sound than vision person, but this is absolutely atrocious and i just can't believe that a make, held in high regard such as samsung can sell this quality of stuff and think it's acceptable. What's worse is that people put up with it.

Well as it's a gift I'll have to try and get the receipt and take it back. Utter rubbish. Not only that i prefer the picture from my old tv.

Clipping is correctly described as distortion.  In fact it is odd-harmonic distortion, primarily third harmonic.

I have a Samsung flat-panel tv and am not happy with it although I have decided to live with it for now.  It sometimes manages to get its Freeview decoder into a state where the sound is tinny and echoey.  A powerdown is needed to resolve this.

It is the second one I owned as I bounced the first one for vision problems but the replacement is the same.  CowboysTechnicians came and switched off Dynamic Contrast at the request of Samsung to minimise the vision fault.
Nuff said.

Clipping isn't correctly described as distortion. Distortion is a misnomer. Clipping is where the ampifier isn't capable of delivering the specified power to the speakers. This results in peak output not being delivered, and a broken sound, which many people think is too much power being delivered to the speakers causing poor sound, and then incorrectly call it distortion.

We're obviously going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

Clipping can happen long before it gets to the speakers and usually happens due to the signal being greater than the supply voltage to the stage (roughly speaking).  Distortion is ANY unwanted difference in signal between input and output.

[Brikhead]

My understanding of clipping is when the input level to the amp is too high.
Distortion, I would say, is when the amp is delivering more power than the speakers can handle.

I happen to have a Samsung L.C.D. T.V. and agree that the sound quality is poor, obviously in the older C.R.T. tellies there's more room for bigger speakers, plus more room for the sound to resonate behind the speaker.
The sound quality is bearable but occasionally we switch on the amp, only an old JVC thing but it does the job.

I'm happy with the picture quality from the set, no issues from the in-built freeview even though the aerial signal is not the best, and it's connected to the computer (sorry P.C. ... I'm just catching up, this is my first computer since my Commodore 64!) via a 15 meter HDMI cable so I can view HD content such asMILF college girls 12the B.B.C. HD channel.

If your p.c. has a separate graphics card I'd try and update the software via the manufacturers website, any problems I've had when connecting to different displays have been down to the graphic cards software.