Blu-ray Picture Quality. Please Help.

[Mr Peabody]

Will the TV not being calibrated account for the varying picture qualities he experiences on different discs? It seems if the TV needed to be calibrated the bad picture quality would be consistent no matter the disc.

I haven't read reviews of the PS4 but the PS3 was the benchmark for Blu-ray for a long time. My son-in-law uses a PS3 for movies and Avatar looked like a video game because he keeps his TV set to 240 or one of those not really appropriate for BD.

[Smokey]

Will the TV not being calibrated account for the varying picture qualities he experiences on different discs? It seems if the TV needed to be calibrated the bad picture quality would be consistent no matter the disc.

I think the problem is that not all discs are consistent. The OP said that:

"For one, the blacks in certain movies are terrible. There is what I can only explain as grainy white fuzz in some, if not most black tones. At times it almost looks as if the grainy white fuzz creates a grid in the background of the dark tones."

What he is describing I seen many times on up scaled dvds. To get rid of it, have to turn down TV's brightness. That problem is more apparent if TV can't produce deep Blacks.

[Feanor]

I think the problem is that not all discs are consistent. The OP said that: ...

Of course, the same must be said of CDs and music recordings in general.