make the adjustments while playing a blu-ray technicolor film like John Wayne’s “The Searchers”. You can see the threads on the shirts. The colors are brilliant. Too many shows today have CGI and muddy colors.
I have a LG 5700 42” tv with 3 wifi and 3 hdmi connections. I did what other posters suggested and turned off all the “help”. I turned off “TruMotion” and “Mode Setting” is Home Use. “Dynamic Contrast” is Off. The tv shows do not look cartoonish and flat anymore. Other brands will have different names for their settings.
Different shows and resolutions will always be different looking from each other. I notice that older tv shows from the 1960’s tend to be more colorful.
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Interesting, I recently bought the Disney Wow! Disc. I do think it is important to do some sort of HDTV calibration. Factory settings usually make everything look like it’s shot on videotape. I have not had the chance to do the Wow! Calibration, but will this week.
A properly calibrated tv looks great, even more so on a older HD CRT screen.
Kim Komando has a great radio show about all things tech - she really knows her stuff. Click the link to her web page, then at the top left of her page click “find a station” for your zip code.
Our TV has a knob where you can turn the quality up to 11. It’s much better than the 10 setting.
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I use calibration disks on all my smaller HD sets. But for my big RPTV a 10 yr old Mits I had a professional ISF calibrator do it. Amazing process exceptional results. Very film like picture. Still have that set just waiting for it to fail so I can justify newer technology.
https://www.imagingscience.com
Coincidentally, I contacted the calibrator through various posts on AVS.
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