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Originally Posted by DVtyro
Depends on the display as well, how well it converts those 8-bit values into 10, 12 or 14 bits. So many tricks were employed to make 8-bit video look better, custom gamma curves, HDR processing, etc.
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This is why I fall back to the analog side using the MON (super) output of the deck itself rather than rely on the trickery of the monitor. All of my Sony BVM monitors are stupid with no digital anything in them, the Panasonic TAU widescreen does have the smarts on the HDMI side and most of these can be accessed & modified in the hidden service menu while the analog side only gets the R+G+B and geometry settings that are specific to the aspect ratio in play. The Samsung on the other hand has all the wizardry and tricks to make everything look picture-perfect. I turn off all the mpeg and other filter enhancements to go as "raw" as I can but it's still a scan converter, honestly I'd much rather have the Panasonic as my primary monitor however the logistics of my home make that very difficult so I put up with the Samsung. It's mounted to the wall over the gas fireplace and I have a Dell 9020 i5 micro Linux box feeding HDMI-3 with a really cool autumn background image, we call the Samsung "The Picture Window" and at 1920x1080 it looks the part.
One thing the Samsung does well is straight analog composite with all the fancy enhancements turned off. I can feed it say my Laserdisc (Philips CDV488) or Type-C (Sony BVH-2000) and it really looks about that of a DVD. Both of these sources have a high S/N ratio to begin with and feeding it an amorphic widescreen 480i it does quite well with the details.