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Pause on your scene of choice and turn the brightness up until the letterbox bars appear grey. Then, reduce the brightness just until the black bars are totally black. Once this is done, find a scene that involves large dark sections that still contain detail. Contrast is, like brightness, a misleading term because this adjustment actually deals with the brightness and detail within the white portions of an image. Ultimately, your contrast setting will come down to personal preference, but we advise that you resist the urge to simply jack the contrast up.

Find a scene with a bright, white image in it and hit the pause button. Adjust the contrast to the point where the white object is bright, but still contains detail and crisp edges. A good starting place is the halfway mark. From there you should have no problem finding the setting that suits you. Note: You may have to bounce back and forth between the contrast and brightness settings to find the optimum combination.

This is normal and can take a little time, but the final result is worth the effort. It is a common misconception that turning the sharpness on a TV to its maximum will provide a sharper picture. Truth be told, high-definition images usually need little or no sharpness enhancement.

You can play around with this setting by pausing your source on a scene that provides lots of straight lines; for instance, a scene with lots of buildings or other uniform shapes like stadium bleachers.

If you turn the sharpness to its maximum, you should notice that the straight lines will become jagged.

Reduce the sharpness to a point where the edges appear clean and straight, then let it be. But on mid- to lower-tier TVs, color adjustment could be considered the trickiest of them all.

Just how green should a leaf look, anyway? For this reason, a calibration disc is highly recommended to achieve the most accurate color settings. We do have a couple of tricks to offer, though. First, find out if your TV offers a color-temperature adjustment. Settings for color temperature are usually expressed in terms of cool or warm. Choose the warmest setting you have available to you as a starting point.

From there, find a scene with plenty of faces in it, then press pause. Turn the color all the way up and notice how it appears everyone has jaundice or a fresh sunburn.

Now, turn the color nearly all the way down and notice how everyone looks as if they belong in the morgue. Now adjust the color back up until faces look natural.

We recommend that you leave the Tint setting alone, unless you are using a calibrator disc. It is a rare case in which the tint setting will need much adjustment, but it does happen. After all, someone is bound to come along and accidentally screw it up at some point.

For each one, we include a test pattern that will help you find the best setting. The first thing you want to adjust is the TV's picture mode. This setting usually has the biggest impact on picture quality. Each picture mode has different default settings, and some of them behave differently from one another, even if you try and match the settings across modes.

The higher the setting, the brighter the picture will be. There is no right answer for this setting. Each user needs to adjust this setting to their specific viewing conditions.

If you're in a bright room, for example, the TV has to be set to a brighter setting than if it was placed in a completely dark room. It also depends on personal preferences, as some people prefer a brighter or darker image. Adjusting the backlight setting doesn't have a significant impact on overall picture quality. It tends to brighten everything pretty much equally, so although blacks tend to let a bit more light through, whites are brighter as well, so the contrast ratio actually remains about the same.

Recommended setting: Whatever looks best to you, based on your viewing conditions and personal preference. Like the backlight setting above, you should adjust this to your viewing conditions. Almost all TVs have this set correctly by default, so we recommend leaving it alone. If you want to try adjusting it using the pattern above, set the brightness to the minimum value and then increase it until you see the black portion on the left begins to lighten.

The contrast setting adjusts the amount of detail present in bright images. This setting should be pretty close to correct by default, but sometimes needs a bit of tweaking. Just lower the contrast setting on your TV to the minimum, and then increase until only lines appear. As you can see from the above images, there's little difference between the correct setting and the maximum. The proper sharpness setting will make things look about the same as they do in real life.

Too much will exaggerate contours and lines. It's very rare for a TV to have the option to remove sharpness from an image, which is why only two images are compared here. To adjust this setting with the pattern, increase Sharpness to as high as it goes, and then decrease until the lines look normal and any geometric patterns in the lines usually diamond-shaped go away.

Too little saturation will wash out the color of the image extreme example at the above-left , and too much will oversaturate the picture above-right.

To adjust this setting with the pattern, look through a blue filter and adjust the color setting so that the blue box on the far left looks the same as the smaller gray boxes within. Recommended setting: The default setting in the 'Movie' or 'Custom' picture mode. This setting adjusts the amount of red and green tint to the image on the TV. Once again, if you decide to adjust this setting yourself, use a blue filter.

Adjusting the white balance means changing the amount of red, blue, and green in several different shades of gray. By correcting each of these shades, the overall color of the image is corrected to be as accurate as the TV can manage. This can't be adjusted without specialized equipment, so we don't recommend trying to adjust this by eye. It also varies between units, even of the same model and size, so we don't recommend copying someone else's settings, including the values we provide on each review settings page.

Warmer color temperatures will make the picture look yellower, and cooler temperatures look bluer. This setting determines the amount of detail in blacks and shadows, with 'Full' offering a bit more detail. It doesn't really matter which setting you choose, as long as both devices are set to the same thing.

As you can see in the above images, a mismatch will result in poor blacks. Recommended setting: It doesn't matter, as long as your TV and source are set to the same thing. Dynamic contrast is a software-based contrast enhancer. It doesn't actually increase the absolute contrast of the picture pure blacks and pure whites stay the same. Instead, it gives the impression of a greater contrast by darkening the shadows and brightening up the highlights. We recommend turning off this feature as it can cause color banding and changes the intended gamma curve.

Local dimming adjusts the backlight in dark areas of the screen, to reduce the amount of backlight bleed and improve the contrast ratio. Not all TVs support this feature, and relatively few TVs do it well. You should adjust this to your personal preference, depending on your viewing conditions, and even the content you're watching. Learn more. Using the TV-menu, be sure to set the color s to 0. Scroll through the images and save the ones you want.

At the very least, the black level and white saturation pictures should be used. Check if the grayscale is neutral without any color shift. If it is not neutral gray, you move the tint cursor until it is.

Note: With the contrast and brightness set correctly, we can now go to color and tint. For a PC monitor, Windows includes its own simple color calibration tool. Follow the Wizard instructions. Most monitors have their own calibration settings. If your operating system or monitor doesn't have a built-in calibration program, look at the photo slideshow here. If you want to calibrate the color on your television using still-pictures on a USB-stick, save the images on your computer first and transfer them to your flashdrive.

This is the slideshow with all the images as thumbnails shown at the bottom. For best results, work with color and tint. Also, move the backlight up and down until it is well adjusted for your room viewing conditions:.

Color intensity; 5. There are options to adjust the sharpness as well, unfortunately these adjustments tend to create a contour-line around edges.

Just be careful to not turn up sharpness too high. If you want to understand a bit more about colors, this is a helpful website. These videos are interesting, but the procedures are somewhat different than what is explained in this document, which gives you great results at 0 cost.

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Does anyone know what to do here? Does anyone have any suggestions? The colors all look right. Again, just duller.