Samsung 55 LED (help please)

Have you checked your settings?

There might be an option to reset to default settings.

Wife had hooked up an old DVD player to it, i'm hoping that it was just because of that DVD player. I'm getting COX installed today and will see if it's ok or not. Does anyone have a list for good picture settings?

post the model of the tv and i'll see if i can find some settings for you. Remember though, no set is exactly the same, plus lighting and distance play a part, so all i can give you is a jumping off point.

These are from some of the guys in AVS
This is the owner homepage
Remember, backlight adjust the black levels and contrast adjust the white levels.
Also if you want a really good picture check out the Disney WOW calibration disk. Very easy to use.
Finally alot of the tv gurus don't like any type of motion enhancement on, thats why you will see alot of them with it set to off. If you want it on, then just turn it on.

"--Picture menu
Mode: standard
Backlight:10-20
Contrast:94
Brightness:46
Sharpness: 0
Color:50
Tint:50/50

Advanced settings submenu
Color space: Auto
Gamma:+3
Dynamic contrast: Off
Black tone: Off
Flesh tone: 0
Motion Lighting: Off



Picture options submenu
Color tone: Warm1
Size: Screen Fit
Digital Noise Filter: Off
HDMI black level: Low
Film mode: Auto greyed out
Auto motion plus: Custom
-- Custom settings:
Blur reduction: 10
Judder reduction: 0
LED Motion Plus: Off xbox reference levels standard, ps3 limited sometimes i also see a slight red tinge on the edge of the smearing/trailing effect. lowering low level red white balance reduces this but just makes it green.

Another set of settings

Picture Mode: Movie
Color Temp: Warm2
Gamma: 0
Backlight: 16
Contrast: 98
Brightness: 43
Color: 48
Tint: 50/50
Sharpness: 6
White Balance:
- R Offset: 25
- G Offset: 27
- B Offset: 25
- R Gain: 12
- G Gain: 25
- B Gain: 25
All of the special options turned off (ex. smooth motion)

And another

Mode: movie
Backlight-16 (I'm not sure about this setting. 16 is just a random guess)
Contrast-98 (I used your 98 setting and my calibration shows that it worked fine for me. Seem's very high though. My Samsung 50 inch plasma is 78)
Brightness-43
Sharpness-22 (I tried 6, but the test pattern seemed blurry. 22 sharpened up the test pattern without adding any false edges, etc....looked natural)
color-48
Tint G50/r50
Advanced settings::
colorspace -auto (Not sure what this setting does)
White Balance: (left at default...not sure how to assess whether or not adjustment is needed).
R-offset 25
G-offset 25
B-offset 25
R-Gain 25
G-Gain 25
B-Gain 25
Gamma : -1
Dynamic contrast off (?)
Blacktone off (?)
Flesh tone 0
Motion lightning off
Picture options
Color tone warm1
size 16:9 (not sure what this actually needs to be: 16X9 or fit)
Digital noise off
HDMI level normal greyed out
film mode Auto (?)
Auto motion clear 5 Blur Judder 5 (Not sure how this should best be set?)
Led off

yeah thats why i posted the link to AVS. You can search through the pages in that thread and see if anyone else has experienced your issue. There is a ton of technical knowledge on that site