Are you experiencing issues with the backlight of your Samsung Smart TV turning off when the screen goes black, such as during the credits of a movie? If this annoyance resonates with you, as it does with me, I might have a solution.
I have an almost ten year old Samsung Smart TV (JU6550). Despite its age, it still works well, and unlike many Samsung TVs owned by people I know, it has not developed any strange issues yet (aside from the quirks it had from the beginning). I am not sure this issue was always there or if it started happening some time after buying it. Some day I started noticing, that the backlight turns off when there’s a black image for about half a second and turns back on when there’s something on the screen that isn’t pure black. For example black cut scenes, or the credits of a movie.
After fiddling around with various settings, I found out that if I set the brightness to 48 and above, the backlight won’t turn off during black scenes. This number may vary for different TV models. It is not an optimal solution since I find the brightness a little too bright on 48, but hey, it’s better than nothing.
I mean. Why? How? And WHY? 🫴 That’s almost as weird as putting the menu “General” as the third last entry of a list of over 10 items (sic!).
That’s all. I hope it helped.
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