I thought Enhanced Bass worked better for both dialog and action scenes. Options include Standard, Music, Movie, Clear Voice, Enhanced Bass and Custom (Standard is selected by default). Similar to the video settings, you can improve the quality of the sound by changing the sound mode. But dialog while watching Blade Runner 2049 and Infinity War was lost a bit in the mix, with the surround sound outweighing the voices.Įven with its better-than-average sound, a soundbar would be a worthy addition to your home theater set up. It helped make the viewing experience more encompassing. Though it only supports Dolby Audio, not Dolby Atmos, it delivered a much wider sound than a typical TV with 2-channel sound. The Insignia F30 produces pretty impressive audio for a TV, regardless of price. After I turned off motion processing and dynamic noise reduction, the problems with blurring significantly reduced. I preferred Natural picture mode to the default standard the oversaturation I saw disappeared. But as soon as I made some adjustments to the settings, the picture quality improved and the TV became much more enjoyable to watch. Part of that is due to the TV’s 60Hz refresh rate. That score still won’t impress gamers, who typically want lag times in the 20s or lower. The F30’s lag time is actually a little better than last year, scoring 36.4 milliseconds on our Leo Bodnar signal lag tester (last year’s was 38.8). The TV had trouble keeping up with fast action sequences during The Old Guard and quick drives down the lane in a live basketball game. The Insignia F30 also improved on brightness, putting out 347 nits, compared to 307 for last year’s version and the V505-G9’s relatively low 287 nits.īlurring presented another problem, especially with motion processing and dynamic noise reduction on. Color accuracy was much better, with a Delta-E score of 2.7 versus 3.9 last year (the V505-G9 scored an even better 2.3). The screen also showed some improvements. Testing in our lab showed that its color gamut was 96.68 percent - much worse than the 99.45 that last year’s model scored but on par with the Vizio V505-G9 (96.48). As a result, HDR performance was limited and contrast was poor it lost details in the darkness while watching both Blade Runner 2049 and Avengers: Infinity War. The F30 supports HDR10, but not HDR10+ or Dolby Vision. While watching Blade Runner 2049 on 4K Blu-ray, the orange sky in the ruins of Las Vegas was too orange and overwhelmed the scenes. Using the default settings, the picture looked oversaturated and colors skewed toward red. But don’t move too far from center while watching - the TV’s limited viewing angles change the colors significantly when you get to 45 degrees from the middle. The underwater scenes in My Octopus Teacher were crisp and realistic. It produced a sharp picture overall, but it’s far from a great viewing experience out of the box. The Insignia F30 takes a few steps forward and a few steps back in terms of quality. Last year’s Insignia 4K Ultra HD Fire TV Edition was the first impressive implementation of Fire TV in a budget model that we’d tested. To enable the smarts of this Fire TV, you connect to the Internet through Wi-fi or wired Ethernet. The Insignia F30 also supports Bluetooth for listening wirelessly on headphones, or you can connect wired headphones to the 3.5mm port located above the HDMI ports. None are particularly easy to access, but that will only be an issue if you have to change what’s connected to the TV frequently.įor sound, you can use optical digital audio or RCA analog (or HDMI ARC). The HDMI inputs are located on the left side, while the optical digital audio, RCA analog audio, antenna and composite video inputs are on the back of the TV.
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