Samsung Frame TV owners, a question

tinpanalley

Golden Member
Jul 13, 2011
1,515
25
91
I'm in an airbnb that has a Samsung Frame TV and connecting our laptop is absolutely infuriating as the internal software insists on running its Input Signal Plus and putting the laptop into Game Mode. And I then have to go and change from Entertain in Picture Mode to Graphic. Every...single...time. Then I send the signal from the laptop via the HDMI cable and it can sometimes change everything back.
Can anyone with this TV tell me how the heck to make my preferred settings stick?
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
101,205
18,220
126
Turn off eARC on the tv if you can.

<--- not a Samsung Frame owner.
 
Last edited:

tinpanalley

Golden Member
Jul 13, 2011
1,515
25
91
Turn off eARC on the tv if you can.

<--- not a Samsung Frame owner.
Yeah, it was off anyway but I'm not in the eARC port.
This is really infuriating. I've got a good calibration set and then I plug in the laptop and -- boom -- Game Mode goes on blasting the gamma up, then you have to turn that off and go to picture settings where it auto defaults to something called entertain mode which is super saturated crap and then you have to change it to Graphic to get a good output based on your previous config/calibration
 

mindless1

Diamond Member
Aug 11, 2001
8,846
1,815
136
I don't have that model of Samsung TV but on mine, being in Game Mode does not mean that you need to change modes, that there are at least the few basic brightness/contrast/etc settings available in game mode so you just change them and that's that, any time it's in game mode it then uses those settings.

However if you have calibrated your laptop for something else, then of course it won't be calibrated right for a different (TV in this case) monitor, or am I missing something? I mean to just make due for the time at an airbnb, not a lifetime commitment...
 
  • Like
Reactions: tinpanalley

tinpanalley

Golden Member
Jul 13, 2011
1,515
25
91
I don't have that model of Samsung TV but on mine, being in Game Mode does not mean that you need to change modes, that there are at least the few basic brightness/contrast/etc settings available in game mode so you just change them and that's that, any time it's in game mode it then uses those settings.

However if you have calibrated your laptop for something else, then of course it won't be calibrated right for a different (TV in this case) monitor, or am I missing something? I mean to just make due for the time at an airbnb, not a lifetime commitment...
You know what, I didn't know that Game Mode just opened features to you like latency and so on and that it changed the Picture Mode offerings but that it could still take the same basic calibrations I had done and even a 20 point greyscale if one should want (I just don't have my calibration device with me). So I just copied in the settings I had put on regular non-Game-mode and it looks fine and doesn't take 5 minutes to run through 5 different changes and disables just to start viewing or working.