5 TV Settings That Should be ILLEGAL (for Harming Picture Quality)

We demonstrate five TV settings that you should adjust on your television to obtain the most accurate picture quality to faithfully reproduce the creative intent.

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0:00 Before & after comparison
0:20 TV Setting #1
2:25 TV Setting #2
3:43 TV Setting #3
4:46 TV Setting #4
6:53 TV Setting #5
8:56 One picture mode to do it all!
9:46 Instructions for different TV brands

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[Jona]

Keep in mind that when you change color temperature it will take a few minutes for your eyes to adjust to the new white point. So don't dismiss the warmer color temperature immediately.

[Jona]

The fact that overscan is still on by default on many tv's is insane.

[hariharanshekar]

Summary:

1. Don't crank up the sharpness setting (keep it neutral). 02:15
2. Turn off Noise reduction
3. Ensure Zero overscan. 04:36
4. Turn off Motion Smoothing
5. Color temperature - use (target the D65 white point)

Tl:Dr - filmmaker mode

[joeg.]

Vincent, All I have to say is THANK YOU. I recently cut the cable cord and currently going with Hulu + Live TV. When I did I experienced all kinds of picture quality and mainly motion related issues on my Samsung QN90B to the point where I was literally about to pull the trigger on another new TV. Your guidance has made a drastic improvement. I am still seeing some minor imperfections which I can live with but thanks to you I won't be shelling out big bucks for a new tv.

[normietwiceremoved]

You are honestly a saving grace for TV buyers. I'm glad you're busting myths and educating people on the REAL technology, not pseudo marketing nonsense.

[PaulVandersypen]

You have answered, with freeze fame and video, the questions I had for years. I bought a 4K TV a few years ago, and it never looked right. The LotR and Mission: Impossible comparisons were exactly what I have been viewing: too smooth, too glossy, like the movies were rendered instead of filmed. A massive thank you, good sir!

[rubikangelo]

Omg, this is by far one of the most enlightening videos ever. Since forever I could not understand for the life of me that why my UHD OLED tv wouldn't show the high quality 8k image in that quality and what's wrong. As u said, found all those settings on in my JVC tv, switched them off and immediately got the quality that I have always been yearning for

[patriciamillin]

As a hobby photographer I agree with the problems caused by too much sharpness and noise reduction. It’s exactly the same when you are editing photos. This also applies to white points and picture temperatures.

[xaviers]

This uniform is for Vincent "other job"🤣🤣🤣

[knwr]

This was no bs, straight to the point, informative stuff.

Also anybody who prefers motion blur is wrong.

Edit: to clarify I was referring to the setting, which is actually called "motion smoothing" on some TVs.

[thegreatoffendo]

Switched up my TV last night and wow. I mostly game on it and it first and at first it did feel yeelish as some mentioned. However, once my eyes adjusted it was crazy good. So much more tone and depth. Made the space scenery really pop with the blacks contrasting to color. Can't ever go back, thanks for the video.

[MrCapHammer]

Got a new Samsung TV today, found this video by accident and changed the TV mode to Filmmaker Mode.
I used the same scene from Lord of the Rings for comparison. I was blown away by the fact how much the image has improved.
Thank you very much!

[johnathanfelton]

Great tips in this video! This advice was generally true for old CRT tvs, and is especially true with today's digital LCD tvs. Try turning off some of those extra noise or blur filters to see if you prefer the look of the picture better without them or not, and turn down the picture adjustment settings a bit. Too much extra contrast, brightness, and color saturation is not a good thing. You lose a lot of subtle details when they are fully turned up. And keep your color temp/tint/hue setting mostly to the middle so it isn't too unnaturally cool/green- pale blue, or overly warm/ orange-red. You will know it is set right if your primary colors appear correct. (REDS that that are deep and bright without looking orangeish or maroonish, and GREENS/yellows, and BLUES, that appear natural and vivid without looking muted or like other colors. Also keep the sharpness set low or barely on if used ay all, because too much creates exaggerated noisey edges. Keeping the picture settings lower not only produces a more natural and detailed picture, it improves the overall performance, and extends the useful life of your TV.

[DanteBellin]

Fully agreed with every of the 5 points - But I have to admit it took me two decades to change the color temperature to warm 50. Strangely I always found the neutral/colder temeperatures more realistic. But once I got used to it, there is no way back.

[Kogemate]

7:22 As a Swiss who has skied all my life, cold is more realistic to my eye. 😂 Yellowish snow is something you learn quickly to avoid first years of your childhood. 😂😂

[DoubleOProductions]

Thank you for saving me the trouble of making this video... the biggest shame is that with new TVs, you need to spend half an hour fixing all the damn settings back to a neutral viewing experience.... I might add that finding the mid-point in the colour temperature might be preferred by most people rather than going full warmth... good video.

[e.x.watson]

Picture setup on my TVs has always felt like a huge rabbit hole for me, especially for gaming. This channel's been of great help for me.

[mytech]

I have an older DVD box set of the Starwars 4, 5, 6 remasters. If I go into the extras menu they have a whole thing for setting up your TV, a bunch of test screens and instructions to get just the right sharpness, contrast, brightness, color balance, etc. After using it all my movies look a lot better than they did with the default settings options.

[supersquat]

Your knowledge combined with your good sense of humor makes this channel so amazing to watch 😂

[swami]

I agree 100% when it comes to motion smoothing. I play both games and watch movies and cannot stand even slight motion smoothing while watching movies. Glad to see there is an option to turn it off. All companies should do proper calibration in TV instead of over-riding features just for appeal. But customers eventually would come to their senses.