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I need help calibrating my TV
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(12-16-2015, 10:46 AM)gstanford Wrote: Sounds like the color temperature is set to cool to me, try normal or warm, possibly the tint setting needs adjustment.

The other thing is LED tv's use LED's that do emit a slightly bluish light, nothing can really be done about that.

http://i.imgur.com/alUiTck.jpg

Yes, first thing is to set it to warm.  At first, it might seem muddy, but warm is almost always the correct color temperature - only cartoons and such might look better at normal.  "Cool" bluish/bright colors just make tv's stand out more at retail stores with the fluorescent lighting and all.  

Now that it's closer to 6500K color temp, just make sure you set your black level to as black as possible (turn down the brightness to less than 50 for most TV's, and then turn it up one step at a time until you see a change in the black level (the background should be entirely black).  Once you see a change, go back to the last increment - some TV's already have it at 50, but some are a bit lower or higher like at 47 or 53 or even 49.  

Then make sure none of the whites are crushed.  Lots of tests for this.  You probably don't have to worry about this with many TV's today, but turning up the contrast could still clip white levels on some TV's.

This is really personal for me, but turning off dynamic contrast means the world to me so I don't have to put up with the ultra-annoying gamma tweaking that tries to do the work that my eyes should already be doing (with unrealistic "lag" in the dynamism).  Usually film-makers have the contrast and detail at the level they want it to be, and dynamic contrast just mucks with the levels that the filmmakers intended.  With good quality TV's, dynamic contrast should not even be needed at all.  After all, OLED TV's have virtually infinite contrast ratio, with the black level at true 0.

EDIT - Actually, there is another kind of dynamic contrast that actually reduces contrast (for many TV's sold in stores today). If one side of the screen is really bright, then the gamma of the entire screen is brightened up. If the entire screen is dark (like at the movie end credits), then the entire screen is dimmed - even to the point of barely being able to read the end credits in daylight). This is what "Eco mode, or power savings mode" usually does on those TV's, and make sure it's turned off as well. It tries to reduce brightness whenever possible just to save power, but is simply plain retarded if you're spending hundreds of bucks on a TV and do not care about paying 1 cent per hour whereas the Christmas lights outside the house might cost 50 cents a night of electricity. Pretty house, but sleazy TV?
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I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-16-2015, 07:26 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by dmcowen674 - 12-16-2015, 10:31 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-17-2015, 03:35 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by dmcowen674 - 12-17-2015, 08:21 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by BoFox - 12-17-2015, 02:20 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by BoFox - 12-20-2015, 10:01 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-20-2015, 10:19 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by dmcowen674 - 12-20-2015, 09:21 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-20-2015, 10:33 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by dmcowen674 - 12-21-2015, 04:09 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-20-2015, 11:50 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-20-2015, 11:54 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-21-2015, 12:26 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-21-2015, 12:40 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by BoFox - 01-08-2016, 09:55 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-21-2015, 12:42 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-21-2015, 07:22 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by dmcowen674 - 12-21-2015, 08:48 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-21-2015, 09:44 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-22-2015, 12:54 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-22-2015, 06:44 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-22-2015, 07:59 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by dmcowen674 - 12-22-2015, 09:43 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-22-2015, 10:12 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-23-2015, 12:34 AM
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RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-24-2015, 03:38 AM
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RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 12-24-2015, 09:50 AM
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RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-01-2016, 10:43 PM
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RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-04-2016, 06:25 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-04-2016, 08:55 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-05-2016, 05:57 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-05-2016, 10:46 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-06-2016, 12:26 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-06-2016, 06:58 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-07-2016, 05:17 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-08-2016, 08:34 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by BoFox - 01-08-2016, 03:28 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by BoFox - 01-08-2016, 04:45 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-09-2016, 03:46 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by BoFox - 01-10-2016, 11:37 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by BoFox - 01-11-2016, 03:30 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-10-2016, 05:33 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-10-2016, 07:46 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-10-2016, 10:38 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by BoFox - 01-10-2016, 11:48 PM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-11-2016, 01:11 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-11-2016, 01:45 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-11-2016, 02:41 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-11-2016, 02:57 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-11-2016, 03:28 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-11-2016, 05:18 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by BoFox - 01-11-2016, 08:50 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-11-2016, 07:24 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by BoFox - 01-11-2016, 08:24 AM
RE: I need help calibrating my TV - by SickBeast - 01-12-2016, 03:02 AM
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