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Get a Better TV Picture with These Settings

by Product Specialist

Get a Better TV Picture with These Settings

Quick Steps to Enjoy Best TV Pictures

The majority of people are often content enough with the manufacturer's settings on their TV sets. But did you know you can enhance the quality of the picture displayed? Below are some of the ways to achieve this.

Make use of Display Presets

In most cases, your TV is designed with built-in presets like "cinema" or "auto" or "widescreen". But to get desired aspect ratio, you may need to reconfigure the exact settings. Additionally, you can upgrade to 4K ultra HD TV to enjoy resolutions of 3840×2160p on the screen.

Rudimentary Calibration

Don't be scared by the term as it simply means basic adjustment on your TV settings, such as switching to HDR. Checking the brightness to either add the value for increased light display, or reduce for dimmer display, and adjusting the contrast settings until the screen indicates optimum picture display, depending on the manufacturer model you have.

Note: it is advisable to recheck the brightness settings once you've adjusted the contrast and vice versa.

Visual Analysis and Adjustment

This entails a simple procedure of observing the clarity, brightness, backlight, tint, sharpness image size and contrast with your eyes. To make the best selection, it is important to distinguish between daytime and nighttime variations in relation to its effect on TV images. The preferred resolution is 1080p with others TVs falling at 720p.

Other Techniques

This includes the use of mobile applications, such as THX Tune-Up app, which troubleshoots on glitches like the disconnect between your curved TV and home theater speaker. Also, adjustments of the television motion settings can help in improving visual display quality.

It's important to ensure you use high speed HDMI cables for the best picture quality and make sure the setting correlates with the mode. Modes such as gaming, movie or music do vary in the set up for visual and audio output.

Another approach is the use of High Dynamic Range. The new capability calls for the TV to change so as to have pictures rendered according to the content provided.

There you have it - the tricks to transform good pictures into better pictures. Seat back and enjoy the view. And if you have any questions, don't hesitate to come by our store and ask us!