Blu-Ray playback very grainy

[efiste2]

When I watch a Blu-Ray disk on my TV, even the most modern of productions appear to be overly grainy, I have a Sony 40" LCD TV and a Sony BD-S60 player, that is multi region for DVD, the interconnect is a HDMI cable (£20 one from currys)........should I upgrade the HDMI cable to see if that cures , what I "think" is a problem. Or have you learned chaps any other suggestions, the BD player has all the latest updates installed. Can you chaps recommend a Blu-Ray disc to use as a benchmark/test.

[hech54]

a Blu-Ray disk

Which Blu Ray disc?

[efiste2]

the last one I played is actually an NTSC one from the states, im in the UK btw, but I have watched SKYFALL and it seemed more grainy than it should be too, its like micro interference...

[sanlyn]

A line from a review of the BluRay issue (http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Skyfall-Blu-ray/45621/) reads this way:

Skyfall's image on Blu-ray is spectacular: clear, sharp, detailed and noiseless

It was shot on film, which like all film has a natural grain to it. But on seeing the movie in a theater and on another player I saw nothing unusual. If unusual grainy effects appear on other discs, something is wrong.

If you have a sharpness control on your player or TV, turn it off. Sharpness adjustments for commercial digital video are ridiculous. Too much contrast or saturation can also accentuate film grain.

You might have a defective cable.

[smrpix]

It was shot on film, which like all film has a natural grain to it.

Actually, Skyfall was shot digitally, ARRI alexa plus some RED Epic, but artificial film grain may have been added for artistic purposes.

The rest of your information is of course, impeccably correct.

[sanlyn]

It sure looked like film to me in the cinema. Certainly not "grainy", though. But a lot of movies look that way, even shot on video. Thanks for noting.

[smrpix]

It sure looked like film to me in the cinema.

Amazing isn't it? The Alexa has pretty much become the digital standard in film and television for exactly that reason.

Also, depending on where you saw it, film prints were struck from the DI.