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I think I'm pleased with the settings I use, which is Movie mode on Samsung, and I tweaked some stuff in the Advanced settings to my liking. I have the Q95T, at first I was thinking of paying to a professional to calibrate it, but so far I'm cool with it. Might get a professional in the future though.
No. I have used DVE BluRay with a blue filter and was very impressed with the results. Perhaps if I bought a top of the line TV maybe I would consider professional calibration.
I’m colour blind in reds and greens. Not totally but my purple isn’t your purple until I’m told what real purple is. I’ve always wanted to do a pro calibration but am nervous that I wouldn’t get the same feel of perfect you or others might. Your tips lead to one or two minor tweaks to my C9 LG OLED but mostly I had things where you recommended by doing a lot of research over the last year. I was actually looking to book a calibration last spring but that ain’t gonna happen for a while now. Thanks Covid. My only real wish now is that LG brings Filmmaker mode to the C9 line through an update so I don’t have to upgrade an otherwise fantastic TV.
Not only did I just buy a new LG OLED tv from your list of suggestions - but I just used this guide to get our TV from the box to perfection and it was so helpful. Thanks for the awesome guide - saved us weeks of second-guessing!
So glad you're joined us in the present with your new TV!!! Also, glad Kristi and I could help. Me thinks you'll be enjoying a lot of Star Wars Disney+ on a proper TV now.
@@cosmicgirl2761 the LG doesn't need calibration, I have had the LG CX since ps5 launch had to twerk a few settings but there's no dimmimg after a few months just go watch a few different reviews that run it and change the best settings for whatever you need it for, iam pro gamer so I know what iam talking about, the 55inch is even better than the 144htz expensive curved monitor I was using
I "self-calibrate" my TVs as I was a A/V engineer with experience in building, repairing, and aligning TVs and cameras so I knew what to look for and do just using my eyes. Now that I'm retired and the TVs are generally very good out of the box and need little adjustment I'm happy enough with a few simple tweaks.
Some guy on you tube few months ago, posted the following calibration. I was sceptical, as I’m passionate about tv settings. Every so called experts ,suggested Cinema mode and custom as well as turning off every other mode. I followed his advice and did: GAME MODE, COOL COLOUR, 49 COLOUR SETTING, BRIGHTNESS 43, CONTRAST 90, and everything else average. I don’t play games - only watch tv progs, films etc. These settings are amazing. I have Sony Bravia Oled A9.
Wow, I didn't even realise my TV HAD Filmmaker Mode until just now! Needless to say, it's now engaged! Also, I didn't realise that I had to go into the TV's settings to properly engage the eARC. I thought just connecting the HDMI cable was enough. I've always wondered why the lipsync was ever so slightly wonky! Thanks a lot, Andrew. Great advice!
I've had my Samsung for about six months. Been using it in Movie Mode from the start. It has Filmmaker Mode, so I think I'll try that for a while. Thanks for the tip.
It actually took me close to a year to calibrate a tv. If anyone in the house or myself noticed that something didn't look right, I would eventually figure it out with Google's help. Also, a good tv series to use as a reference for adjustments is NCIS. If you can get the shadows and the black level to a good level using that show, everything else will look good. I know that it might sound ridiculous to some people, but it works.
Something he doesn't mention here is to set up your tv under the light conditions you mostly watch under. Maybe it's too obvious for the smart people watching this! As for a good tool, I have the Criterion blu-ray of Eraserhead, which contains tools (approved by David Lynch) for setting contrast and brightness, which worked very well on my 12 year old Sony set (and in fact wasn't too far from how I had set things up by eye, lol).
Just read your description to see where you were going with this. As a former HT guy with more than 11 years in the business, I couldn’t agree more. It’s the same advice I have handed out many times. Once you get used to warm, cool just looks weird and artificial. I use it on my phone as well.
Thank you so much. I’ve just received a Samsung Neo QLed TV and HDR in particular seemed SO different. Brightness and contrast defaults to full (as it should), but the average screen brightness (gamma) seemed SO low. Blacks seemed too black and yet whites are like headlights!! It was then that I discovered massive differences between HDR streams in terms of average brightness and in the end, resorted to raising the black level (detail) just to try and get it to feel more comfortable. Once the black level was raised slightly, the average (or I guess gamma) seemed way better. The local dimming was also a godsend. It’s quite strange that modern TVs go SO bright and yet the blacks can be jet black. I finally got used to using Filmmaker mode with that ‘warm 2’ white balance. You are right. Switch tv off and come back and warm 2 seems correct. It feels very strange using a TV max’d out in hdr with no leeway for ‘more’ so you feel that hdr is too dark, in spite of all that dynamic range! So many thanks for confirming what my gut was telling me was correct, but was never sure when looking at it. I keep coming back to this video for confirmation!!!
Apart from being very informative in a way most people (hopefully) can grasp, I'd like to really commend you on the way you speak. Your voice is naturally soothing in a good way and your tone is super crisp and fluid somehow. Really well done, you really deserve more subscribers than you already have. Keep up the good work!
Actually that was particularly helpful for me. I got a 55 inch Sony in my second room and 65 in my main room. Both just under £1000. So not what you would call high end. I reset my picture on one tv for cinema. I did know about the 24fps for movies but just very slightly tweaked the contrast and turned off advance contrast and all the other fiddly settings and never looked better. Got to say I did this with all including the hdr and Dolby vision settings. Same result. All very minimalistic but big difference and very natural. Have to also mention even after resetting all my picture options the picture looked better, so everything I did personally before this clearly just ruined the picture. Everything looks really natural now Color’s and everything. Just need to do the same with the other TV. Learned something from your video and subbed. Thanks
To be honest, I was very skeptical about the film mode. But I followed all the steps you recommended. I think my Samsung 4K tv has now the perfect setting. However I also think it's all about the content you are watching. Watching an HDR documentary on Netflix makes a big difference than standard HD live TV.
One of you guys had a question he answered in the video about “What should you set your digital audio output to?” That’s a great question, I happened to have a lot of experience and knowledge when it comes to Home Theater set ups. So I decided to give out more information about whoever asked that question, and this information I’m about to give you are actual facts lol. You can verify if you’d like. So Years ago I learned when it comes to your TVs Sound/audio settings is this… If you are using an external source (gaming console/blue ray player) with a receiver or soundbar by HDMI ARC OR eARC you definitely want to change your Digital output audio to either passthrough or AUTO on your tv. (you only leave it on PCM if your just using the tv speakers) If you are using a receiver or soundbar, however alll this time(years ago) I left my setting on Passthrough because I assumed it would let the external audio source control everything, because that’s what passthrough means, that’s not always true most of the time. You want to choose Auto! This goes for LG and Samsung 4K TV’s. Because I have experience with them. And for some reason it makes no sense but it’s true so listen up… For my set up I have an Xbox series X, Samsung 4K HDR10+ Tv and a Samsung HW-Q700A soundbar (Dolby atmost/DTS:X) with the rear speaker kit. So basically my xbox turns any game or movie I’m watching into Dolby atmos, but when I was using the audio setting set to “passthrough” in tv settings, I didn’t realize it wasnt the true audio format for Dolby atmos even though my tv and Xbox sound settings were set to Dolby atmos-passthrough. I found out because anytime I switch between a streaming app or game Dolby atmos should pop up every time on my soundbar screen. I was wondering why it would never pop up letting me know, because my Dolby atmos speakers were still on, I decided to change my digital audio output format to AUTO instead of PASSTHROUGH! Now every time I switch between apps or games “Dolby atmos” pops up on my soundbar letting me know my Xbox is formatting everything I do into Dolby atmos. Of course I’m using my current set up as an example, 5 years ago on an older xbox,Samsung 4K tv and sound bar is when I realized and learned this. So basically no matter what especially if your using a external HDMI source with a external receiver or soundbar connected to your tv, when any content supports Dolby atmos/DTS:X your receiver/ soundbar should pop up every time letting you know your spatial audio format is turned on. But for me using a Xbox series X, everything is always in Dolby Atmos, and for anyone else who has a gaming console hooked up to their tv with an external sound source then just keep this in mind when your switching between a game or streaming app on your console, Atmo/DTS should pop up each time, if it’s not make sure your TV’s digital audio format is set to AUTO because sometimes passthrough does not work even though passthrough lets your external device set the sound format which is basically the Samething as Auto…. LG and Samsung sometimes have this weird glitch.
Motion Smoothing gets a a lot of hate, but I personally keep it turned on. I can’t stand any slight stutter or judder. I love the Smooth Crisp look it gives
@@ganjabobby now that is exactly what I did and it works perfect plus there's no better TV out there that can match the specs of the LG CX for both ps5 n Xbox series X and a third of the price of some Sony TVs that only have 2 2.1hdmi and not even vrr or allm like the new A90J which is a joke
I work as a broadcast engineer and I can say that this kind of topic can get very philosophical. The important thing to realise is we cannot assume that any two people will perceive the same thing the same way. Everything taints the image, from the type of camera and colour temperature used, the medium it was recorded with film/digital/conversion? the colour space of the transmission RGB/YUV/ or 422/444?, what about the components of the tv? We can even go down to the lighting in your living room and what colour your walls are. The list goes on before you even get to the individual’s ability to perceive any of it. What is the benchmark that says the image accurately represents every original source material?
I bought a record player and speakers based off of your recommendations... I was not at all disappointed. I come looking again for improved settings for my new TV and am equally impressed!
Having the TCL R635 I found the Movie mode was by far the best mode. Besides that setting it to Brightest and Warm and making the picture settings to taste worked best for me.
Great video! 2 years ago, when I got my first 4k TV, it took a couple hours of web-searching to find most of the recommendations that you have consolidated into a single video.
I know this video is 3 years old, but I just came across it recently, and it really helped me with changes I had to make to my home theatre set up because my TIVO PVR was no longer working properly, and my carrier was now promoting the EPICO cloud based PVR system. When I installed the new Epico system, my 4 year old 65” LG OLED tv suddenly had the worst picture image possible. It was like a Vivid setting on steroids. I played around with various settings in the Standard User picture mode but just couldnt get a picture that came close to the TIVO set up. After watching your video, I switched to the Cinema picture mode, adjusted a few setting and now have acceptable picture quality. Its definitely not as bright as when I had the TIVO system, but I dont have those extreme black and white settings that came with the initial Epico set up. I will probably tweak the settings a bit more at a later date, but will stay with my current set up to help my brain get over the harsh blue, whites and blacks. Thank you for the very informative video.
I'm not a candidate for professional calibration, not that I wouldn't like it, but because I'm colorblind, as well as it's not super important to get 100% accuracy for me. If I can get to 90% or better I'm good with that. So your 5 steps are perfect.
Hi Andrew, I play all my content with PC, and there are two other important settings worth to mention. 24p setting for LCD picture repetition rate (Judder free play), and the 0-255 RGB setting for the real color space. Sometimes you need to adjust those also with a blue ray player for optimal result.
Also good points. I wanted to keep this video a little more straightforward or simple for people that may be a little newer to TV adjustment(s). But yes, with computers and sources you may have to look for the RGB settings etc.
Back in my youth (I am now 52), as a young boy, I had the immense pleasure of walking in a Sears store and walk up to the wall of TVs that would be made of over 5 x 20 units of various sizes and zoom in/walk to the cheapest one (usually a “Candle” or "Sharp" or "Citizen" branded cheapy that was really a disguised Toshiba 16” color screen TV and would simply adjust the rolling buttons beneath the screen (how I miss those) after having deactivated the dreaded auto-adjust button (since it always made the image too “hot” with oversaturated colors!) and made sure that by the time i was done adjusting the image (this usually took no more that 40 seconds!), this cheapest TV was properly adjusted (Hue, Contrast, Brightness, Sharpness, etc.) and therefore was the best looking in that wall of TV. And boy, it was not even subtle. This was really a visual statement and nice to see. Of course this was very funny to my 10 year old self as it automatically made that TV stand out (and above, visually wise) from all the other units as the “best looking TV” while being the cheapest of the bunch. :) Sales rep did were not always amused & aven sometime asked my Dad to keep me away OR to adjust the other units/TVs. LOL Funny how just using basic adjustments (and good visual judgment) was not part of the habits of the time. Then again, same thing today is what I observe way too often. Whenever I go (“Went” because of covid-19) to a friend or family member’s house and the giant screen flat TV was on, I rapidly have ask if I may quickly adjust the image… Sure enough, after just a few minutes of adjustments (it always takes more time than simple dials of olds to play with the setup OSD menus), they usually prefer seing more natural looking people on the screen after I'm done adjusting. "Geez, I didn't know this could look so good. I was just thinking of getting a new one, but now I don't need to." So, just like in audio gear, proper setup is key for best results and enjoyment. Funny that… Cheers. M :)
@@Encourageable -- Hey, I only now do it with permission and knowledge that they can always get it back to oversaturated and exaggerated image set-up. ;)
The color temperature tip helped a lot! I really thought I was looking at the best with the neutral or cool temperatures.. Now I set my sony bravia to expert1 temperature and it looks so much natural
Andrew: The main thing people are not aware of is that most homes (even brand new homes) have dirty electricity. A good power conditioner is of the absolute must to achieve better audio and video. ...such as the Emotiva CMX-2/4 and Furman. Perhaps you do a review of power conditioners in the near future.
just bought LG 65inch Nano 8k, after messing about myself with picture getting worse and feeling i had wasted my money, I followed your instructions and now I have an amazing picture, Thanks
For best video/sound quality, is it better to use an AppleTV 4K or stick to the in-TV apps? I bought an SonyX900H and feel the Apple TV offers better video, comments?
What do you think about using the toslink out, to a quality DAC/ preamp, to amp and speakers. For streaming a music app using the TV. Is that going to give a quality digital signal that my dac can turn into HiFi analog? I already stream through my receiver, but it is an AVR and I think I can get better sound with a stand alone 2 channel setup for music. Or should I go a different route.
I use a computer monitor as a tv with a 3rd gen Chromecast dongle and try to keep my monitor as close to 50% or 60% colour and contrast and brightness. I use a computer monitor because not a lot of TV manufacturers still make 24-inch TVs that are good quality. Good quality TV manufacturers like Sony don't even have TVs lower than 42 inches (at the time of writing). Even 32 inches is a little bit more than then I need. I live in a small studio apartment unit and I don't need a wall of tv. People used to enjoy 19 inch portable TVs and even 24 inch TVs decades ago, now in the 21st century people are enjoying 100 inch TVs and projectors that light up 100 inches.
I nailed it :P. My two recommendations were your first ones xD. I own a 10 year old DisplayCal colorimeter and back then it was night and day on a projector. Projectors are more prone to needing them, since the manufacturer can't know the surface you are going to use to display it. They are 100% worth it on low end and high end projectors. For TVs and Monitors, I don't think they are unless you are too into it as a hobby, or have a lot of TVs. A colorimeter is 200 dollars and Calman software is at least 150 (although if you spend the time to learn, HCFR is free and for monitors there's DisplayCal too) High-end TV's already come with delta Es under 3. So it's unlikely people will be able to even see the benefits. I'm a monitor fan-boy and replace them every 2 years, and it didn't make much difference on my last one. I plan on getting a new one capable of calibrating HDR Displays, but it's last on my priority list since my LG CX has great color out of the box.
*Andrew I don't mean to be bold, but your video got me thinking.* Who watches TV for enjoyment. Humans or calibrating equipment. You say humans are wrong if a calibrated TV looks wrong. I can understand that eyes adjust to light, and in order to get a screen to look good in every type of content, you have to find the average flat response. But if you tune the picture by eye using many different image examples and find the best compromise that looks good on them all, that is calibrated to the human eye. Your human eye to be specific. Not calibrated to an engineering device. Tools are supposed to make the job easier, not tell you that you are wrong and you do not know what you are supposed to like. I would only trust a calibration tool if it calibrated the screen to how humans see light. Biometrically tuned to me personally. To clarify, everyone has different eyes and ears, so we tune our equipment accordingly. When we get older and the high frequencies tail off, we turn up the treble on the hifi to compensate. That is different to calibrating studio monitors to give a base line neutral sound for consumers to work from. Not everyone has perfect eyes. Most people are slightly colour blind to some degree, especially men, and so you boost a colour the your sensors are weak to so you see a neutral blend. It will look right to your eyes even if a calibration device says it is wrong. And you stand there telling us we are wrong. Too many people are making money out of thus calibration con. It's all FOMO when everyone is afraid someone with better eyes will say the colours on your TV are out of whack, when it looks balanced to you. So you get it calibrated and all the colour are out of whack with your eyes, but you live with it because this is how it is supposed to be. Bullcrap.
I watched this in my theater so only now can I comment and tick the like. I went in and did 4/5 adjustments and no biggie but that said when the OLED is 4K/120 I will be having a pro come up to calibrate the Panasonic 9000, the Marantz SR8015 with the TV. I could work it out but my time is worth more than having to read manuals that I have had to dig out of professional releases to know my way around the process.
You shouldn't turn off motion interpolation all the way because the judder is too high on modern tv's, you should put it around "2/10" or "low" depending on TV brand, that way it doesn't look choppy and not high enough to make it look like a soap opera effect.
Andrew great video - thank you. As a still photographer I find myself fiddling a fair amount and your hints were valuable. To answer your question - no - I do not want professional calibration for two reasons: 1) Unless the calibrator came on good recommendation, I don’t trust that they would necessarily know what they were doing. 2) Much like audio, what is “best” I think depends more than a little bit on content - so often I simply look at custom (which I set up using recommendations in another TH-cam video), Cinema Home and Cinema Pro. Sony 900F. Best holiday wishes to you and Kristi!
I’m about to purchase a new tv, looking at the Sony X90K.. this video has eased so much anxiety about the time it takes to get things looking right. Highly appreciated.
I've never calibrated my TV, but I always do with my PCs monitors. Its been a godsend for artwork and photography.. even if all 3 of my displays are different ages & use different panel tech, they're consistent enough that I know I'm more likely to be getting an accurate representation across all other devices, without obvious skews towards one color or another, or something that is too bright or dark from having a bad calibration.
The settings prescribed is exactly what my 'eyes' told me to believe...Tried various settings but the ones you have suggested is what i have settled in for last 3 months in my Samsung RU7100...However viewing HDR is hit or miss and have to resort to 'Dynamic mode' for the extra oomph!!
Yeah, HDR is a real mess/crap shoot. I personally am not that big of a fan, as I find most displays do not have the requisite light output to give us the image quality I believe the filmmakers want us to see. But it is getting better with each passing generation.
I love this type of video, very down to earth, easy to understand without being an expert, and really helping. Thank you. Please make plenty of those in 2021 (and for the many years to come).
i've always been calibrating my tv the best I can, but I will admit it's by eye, but I already knew quite a few of these tips and settings that you talked about and recommended. I May have to go back through to check a few settings though!
In my mind, for video and audio, by going down the rabbit hole of chasing the last 5% improvement in a system lies madness. I change the most important things that get me 90% or 95% there and then I don't really change settings anymore *unless* I feel something is truly wrong. Like the other day when motion interpolation had turned itself back on. Otherwise I would just go insane because at that point any improvements may very well just be in my head anyway. Maybe with the exception of HDR, I feel like sometimes you have to readjust HDR settings for every new source (like for instance different video games, which also come with their own HDR settings and quirks). That said I am really glad modern TVs are usually much better calibrated from the factory nowadays and like you said, changing it to it's movie mode is usually good enough. At least for Video, because with eARC, I spend much more time troubleshooting audio than I am troubleshooting video these days ...
@@andrewrobinsonreviews I did kinda jump headfirst into that one, with a new TV and a soundbar using this cutting edge technology. I was expecting some issues, but it has for sure been a bit more frustrating than I expected at first. But LG and SONOS have been at least pushing out patches that have solved *most* issues by now.
Thank you! I got a new HDR set and everything through the cable box was maxed red... everything looked like it was on fire. Your vid reminded me that HDR settings per HDR/non-HDR content can be set differently and when I turned it to auto, non-HDR cable content corrected, while Dolby Vision through Netflix and HDR10 from my PlayStation 5 still looked correct.
Great video.Very informative! I have some visual problems, so I like my picture to be quite bright, but I will definitely use your guide to help me get the best picture possible! Thankyou!
I bought Samsung 55q60t, and at first, I wasn't happy, but, I found on Internet calibration for my model done by Rtings, and I'm more than happy with the results.
Thank you for all the great vids. I very much look fwd to them. I just recently bought an LG oled and I was immediately impressed by the improvement in sound with the earc. Picture wise, it came out of the box set on vivid. I now have it set on standard and I find that to be comfortable. I believe Santa will be bringing me a Yamaha RXV6A for Christmas and I can only blame you for that! Happy Holidays.
Thanks, very helpful. My LG CX arrived in Standard mode and picture quality seemed so disappointing until I had a chance to explore the other modes. I think I’ve since applied most of the relevant four adjustments you suggest for OLED so it does look great now. The idea of a professional calibration does seem interesting but it strikes me as something of an expensive luxury given how good the set looks without it. One point concerns me if I did go down that route too : I have a calibration device that I use with a high-end PC photography monitor and, while it does a good job, the process has to be repeated periodically as the calibration wanders off a bit so the system advises repeating. Does that situation not also apply to TV calibration so that the calibrator would have to revisit from time to time?
" I have a calibration device that I use with a high-end PC photography monitor" - i1 display pro? If so you can easily use calman autocal to calibrate the screen. If you are already farmiliar with calibrating your monitor it shouldnt be too hard to learn theres a lot of youtube videos on the process. And OLED's apparently don't need to be calibrated as often, but regardless even if you never calibrated it again it would probably forever be more accurate then out of the box.
Should the cinema/warm setting be on for games as well? I always knew it was definitely needed for movies because of how they were mastered. Games are mastered differently right? So is warm needed for them too? Great vid. ✌&❤
No if it's next gen it should auto turn to game settings to get the best out of your console, that's what game user is for, it's for HDR 4k 120fps if it's 2.1hdmi but yeah you can change game to cooler or warmer but keep sheetings on game when on console
I have a TCL 6 Series TV and I also have found the "Standard" mode to be the best mode available. You are the first that I saw that mentioned this, all other channels said put it to "Movie" mode. Subscribed!
@@AthanasiosEmmanouilidis It’s actually “movie” mode for optimal picture across all TCL tvs and if YOU like “standard”, all the better, it’s just a bit brighter! Do have a soundbar, hehe…
Speaking a someone that watches movies and TV shows on projector I kind of love the smooth motion feature to the extent that I now hate the shudder effect you get when it is turned off. I think calling it the soap opera effect is an incorrect reference to when TV first went HD and cheap TV shows like soap opera looked really bad because the makeup and sets weren’t designed for HD viewing. When I watch something with the smooth motion feature turned on I don't think it looks like a soap opera however I can imagine if you suffer from some kind of motion sickness it would be unappealing particularly on a big screen. To me smooth motion makes a TV show or movie more immersive giving it more of a 3D effect and I think that is what people really have a problem with (that more immersive effect) but once you get use to higher frame rates going back to 24FPS feels more jarring. The first time I watched a TV show in 4K on a laser project with smooth motion turned on it was pretty jaw dropping. One of the first things I saw was the new "Lost in Space" TV series and when watching the scene where they are walking through the forest, I almost felt like I could walk into the forest and look behind the trees to see if someone was hiding there. Going back to 24FPS and that "unnatural" shudder was actually a huge come down from what felt a lot "smoother" and immersive. I’m guess on TV it would be less noticeable.
Movie and filmmaker are way too dark on my 2020 samsung q80t. Details in darker scenes get crushed. I don't want some expert telling me how the settings should be. My eyes tell me.
Maybe that option is attatched to the picture mode you're using. If possible try changing the input settings so you can tell the TV you're using a PC in speciffic HDMI ports. That way you'll get interpolation off immediately as well as good time response and native picture displayed on your TV. Then you can start changing the resting settings.
Hey! This helped me out a lot. I was given a TV and had no idea how to fix the smooth (unnatural) motion thing. Just didn't know what I was looking for, but trying to watch a movie was painful until I found out how to disable that. Why on earth anyone thinks this is a good idea is beyond me. It also fixed the flicker I would see in my videos that included the TV in the background which I knew should not be happening as the camera settings matched the TV's 60Hz refresh rate.
15:30 - This is one of the biggest misperceptions, and misinformation on the Sharpness setting out there, and I'm glad you cleared this up. The minimum setting for sharpness is not ideal for all makes and models within a brand. I've even read and heard ISF trained calibrators instruct users, just a matter of housekeeping(!), to turn their sharpness control all the way down. NO! What you recommended - adjusting sharpness just until any artificial edging or thick lines disappear, is the correct way. It will "flatten" the TV's picture response - meaning sharpness is no longer adding to or subtracting from the image.
For SDR I chose ISF Expert Bright mode. That's ok for TV shows and most of the 1080p content. According to the incoming signal, my LG OLED offers me automatic Filmmaker Mode detection when watching movies and I'm fine with that. The picture quality is superb.
I have a dated 7 yr old Sony Bravia, and just bought a Bose sound bar, should I connect that to the HDMI arc port? Or my Chromecast, thanks for the very informative videos 👍
i generally believe that if TV's came with auto-calibration it would be more of a game changer than HDR content. It's already implemented on the computer side of things with monitors like ezio employing auto-calibration every 200hrs. I little thing pops down on its own. So it's possible. This is all set to environment the tv is in. Sadly it would kill an industry almost over night though. but i have supison you'll start seeing it soon
Messed up my Samsung qled Q60A by pressing hdmi calibration on service menu does anyone have the exact values or similar for the ADC/WB menu. I got it close by using the Samsung pattern but doesn't feel day one. Whatever you do Do not press hdmi calibration otherwise comes up saying failure and Messes up all your tv picture
This explanation you started to give at 4:19 might as well been written for me. Great advice, I'm actually in the process of adjusting a new TCL 635 and that normal mode plus normal setting and brighter picture setting is so seducing for all the reasons you explained, but I feel like it's about to either give me a tan or leave me blind. I always kept it for also the exact reasons you said until now when I switched it to warm it felt yellowish by contrast. I'm gonna give the normal+warm temperature a real shot now.
My Hisense H8G pic settings: Backlight: 100% Local Dimming: High Standard mode Temp: Mid-Low Motion: Clear NR/DNR: Off Active Contrast: Medium Enhanced Viewing Angle: On Color Space: Native
Another video that makes me glad I subscribed to your channel. I made the adjustments during your video. I have a Sony and it’s always been set at Vivid/cool. Thanks
When I changed my TV settings a couple of years ago to be accurate, it initially made me a bit uncomfortable. It looked a bit bland. But after nearly 2 days, it became normal. And now when I change it to it's original setting, I freaking hate it. e.g: The contrast was originally at 45% and sharpness at 50% but (after reading about TV settings) I changed Contrast to 90% and sharpness to 5%. And my Blu-rays look amazing. Previously I was wondering why even a Blu-ray copy looked poor but now I see how decreased contrast and increased sharpness messed up the quality. What I'm saying is, trust his advice and change your settings. P.S: At least change the colour temp to warm for accurate movie experience. Don't watch movies in Vivid or Dynamic as it's horrendous.
This is what people don't understand. You need to give your eyes time to adjust to the new image presentation. You can't just make a snap judgement about whether you like it or not.
Recently made the jump to a 4K HDR Qled from my old 1080p TV. I figured I made some un-needed changes playing around with the settings because I'm new to more modern TV's and features, but realized I've actually already made all the right changes suggested in this video. But my new TV does do a pretty good job explaining what each setting/feature does in the menus. Still a very informative video.
Just out of curiosity, is there any argument to be made for using inaccurate settings that please your brain? In certain artistic formats - oil painting for example - you sometimes have to make things more contrasty because the brain sees a painting differently than the same scene in real life, or so I have been told and I basically know nothing about it, LOL, but it seems like a valid question. This idea would probably involve some compromise between the obviously too punchy vivid mode and full on professionally accurate modes.
It's a fair question, and in reality when you buy a TV you somewhat get an answer regarding inaccuracies pleasing the brain. While there are a lot of TVs that get close to being "calibrated" out of the box, none are textbook and most have a mild bias towards producing a more contrasty or blue image because, as you point out, it's what "we" like to see. So you're not wrong. It doesn't make the TV correct or accurate, but it may make it more pleasing to the majority of viewers. Great question.
I have an LG and with local dimming turned on (even on low), there are very obnoxious columns of light that follow any source of light in the film around (Think Harry Potter with his wand illuminated in a dark hall). These columns extend all the way up and down the screen from the source of light. This is extremely distracting during dark scenes of movies, especially when there content is in 18:9 because the black bars at the top and bottom magnify this effect and dance around left to right constantly. Because of this, I have turned local dimming completely off which is disappointing because it was a feature for which I had high expectations.
It’s because your TV has its backlight is only edge lit like mine. Local dimming really depends on how it’s backlight is lit so it’s really made for either direct lit or, more importantly, a full array backlight. Which is another but much better LED TV
Really great advice... trying it now, and I'll never be able to afford an outside consultant. My wife just complained yesterday about brightness changing.
Maaaate! Thankyou! Just adjusted some of my settings, everything is so much nicer and more clear! This is after ive spent 2 years fidling and adjusting. So much better after this vid, now time to get a pro out to make it perfect!
I had my TV "calibrated" by Best Buy and he was not able to do anything beond what I had already done. What I had alredy done was setting it up to the 5 setting you just recommended.
You're saying that you were able to do what other people pay several hundred dollars for a service that takes a couple hours - hooking up various programs to expensive equipment that makes adjustments that are beyond what is possible without said equipment? But despite that, you paid for them to do nothing? Are you saying that all they did was play with your controller? Or that they hooked all of their equipment up before telling you that there's nothing more that they could do?
Excellent video Andrew, one question: how do you set your tv to be always as an art display like a painting? Is that an app or images in a usb multimedia?
It depends on what kind of TV you have some TV's have a gallery preloaded, some you can upload your own or select via wifi. Some TV's will go to that screen for a screen saver and some is a mode you can select. Samsung products have it to where you can use your own and select from their selection you can even take a picture of your wall and it makes it blend right into your wall, it's pretty neat.
My 25 year old plasma died the other day and I replaced it with a Blaupunkt Android Full HD model. What a shock in the picture department! Awful. Thanks for this vid Andrew, I’ve made some recommended adjustments thank you, but I’m finding that what’s great in Live TV ain’t that good in say, TH-cam or any of the other WiFi sourced channels. One thing that is good is the sound quality through my hifi system. Gotta have a sub‼️Regards to you both✌️🌻
Brilliant presentation. Well structured, good pace, concise. Love the questions section at the end after the recap...I will be recommending this structure to my own educators. Useful info and tips too!
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I think I'm pleased with the settings I use, which is Movie mode on Samsung, and I tweaked some stuff in the Advanced settings to my liking.
I have the Q95T, at first I was thinking of paying to a professional to calibrate it, but so far I'm cool with it.
Might get a professional in the future though.
Leave well enough ALONE👍😊
I am definately not a candidate. As long as I am happy with what I see, I am fine .
No. I have used DVE BluRay with a blue filter and was very impressed with the results. Perhaps if I bought a top of the line TV maybe I would consider professional calibration.
I’m colour blind in reds and greens. Not totally but my purple isn’t your purple until I’m told what real purple is. I’ve always wanted to do a pro calibration but am nervous that I wouldn’t get the same feel of perfect you or others might. Your tips lead to one or two minor tweaks to my C9 LG OLED but mostly I had things where you recommended by doing a lot of research over the last year. I was actually looking to book a calibration last spring but that ain’t gonna happen for a while now. Thanks Covid. My only real wish now is that LG brings Filmmaker mode to the C9 line through an update so I don’t have to upgrade an otherwise fantastic TV.
After watching this my 25yr old CRT TV is now 4k HDR 120hz
Now THAT’S comedy!!
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It's how he got it up to 1000 NITS that left me scratching my head....
Not only did I just buy a new LG OLED tv from your list of suggestions - but I just used this guide to get our TV from the box to perfection and it was so helpful. Thanks for the awesome guide - saved us weeks of second-guessing!
So glad you're joined us in the present with your new TV!!! Also, glad Kristi and I could help. Me thinks you'll be enjoying a lot of Star Wars Disney+ on a proper TV now.
@@andrewrobinsonreviews HEHE X
Make sure you let an oled run in for a few weeks before you get it professionallycalibrated , as they dim a touch after few weeks
@@cosmicgirl2761 the LG doesn't need calibration, I have had the LG CX since ps5 launch had to twerk a few settings but there's no dimmimg after a few months just go watch a few different reviews that run it and change the best settings for whatever you need it for, iam pro gamer so I know what iam talking about, the 55inch is even better than the 144htz expensive curved monitor I was using
I didn't think it was possible to write one owner's manual for all TVs but this comes closer than I have seen.
This is a valuable addition to TH-cam.
I "self-calibrate" my TVs as I was a A/V engineer with experience in building, repairing, and aligning TVs and cameras so I knew what to look for and do just using my eyes. Now that I'm retired and the TVs are generally very good out of the box and need little adjustment I'm happy enough with a few simple tweaks.
Some guy on you tube few months ago, posted the following calibration. I was sceptical, as I’m passionate about tv settings. Every so called experts ,suggested Cinema mode and custom as well as turning off every other mode.
I followed his advice and did: GAME MODE, COOL COLOUR, 49 COLOUR SETTING, BRIGHTNESS 43, CONTRAST 90, and everything else average. I don’t play games - only watch tv progs, films etc. These settings are amazing. I have Sony Bravia Oled A9.
This is great! Can't afford an OLED right now, but this was a real improvement. Thanks
Wow, I didn't even realise my TV HAD Filmmaker Mode until just now! Needless to say, it's now engaged! Also, I didn't realise that I had to go into the TV's settings to properly engage the eARC. I thought just connecting the HDMI cable was enough. I've always wondered why the lipsync was ever so slightly wonky! Thanks a lot, Andrew. Great advice!
I've had my Samsung for about six months. Been using it in Movie Mode from the start. It has Filmmaker Mode, so I think I'll try that for a while. Thanks for the tip.
It actually took me close to a year to calibrate a tv. If anyone in the house or myself noticed that something didn't look right, I would eventually figure it out with Google's help. Also, a good tv series to use as a reference for adjustments is NCIS. If you can get the shadows and the black level to a good level using that show, everything else will look good. I know that it might sound ridiculous to some people, but it works.
Something he doesn't mention here is to set up your tv under the light conditions you mostly watch under. Maybe it's too obvious for the smart people watching this!
As for a good tool, I have the Criterion blu-ray of Eraserhead, which contains tools (approved by David Lynch) for setting contrast and brightness, which worked very well on my 12 year old Sony set (and in fact wasn't too far from how I had set things up by eye, lol).
@@ShanghaiRooster Nice! As they say, where there's a will, there's a way! Lol
Just read your description to see where you were going with this. As a former HT guy with more than 11 years in the business, I couldn’t agree more. It’s the same advice I have handed out many times.
Once you get used to warm, cool just looks weird and artificial. I use it on my phone as well.
Thank you so much. I’ve just received a Samsung Neo QLed TV and HDR in particular seemed SO different. Brightness and contrast defaults to full (as it should), but the average screen brightness (gamma) seemed SO low. Blacks seemed too black and yet whites are like headlights!!
It was then that I discovered massive differences between HDR streams in terms of average brightness and in the end, resorted to raising the black level (detail) just to try and get it to feel more comfortable. Once the black level was raised slightly, the average (or I guess gamma) seemed way better. The local dimming was also a godsend.
It’s quite strange that modern TVs go SO bright and yet the blacks can be jet black. I finally got used to using Filmmaker mode with that ‘warm 2’ white balance. You are right. Switch tv off and come back and warm 2 seems correct.
It feels very strange using a TV max’d out in hdr with no leeway for ‘more’ so you feel that hdr is too dark, in spite of all that dynamic range!
So many thanks for confirming what my gut was telling me was correct, but was never sure when looking at it. I keep coming back to this video for confirmation!!!
Apart from being very informative in a way most people (hopefully) can grasp, I'd like to really commend you on the way you speak. Your voice is naturally soothing in a good way and your tone is super crisp and fluid somehow. Really well done, you really deserve more subscribers than you already have. Keep up the good work!
Actually that was particularly helpful for me. I got a 55 inch Sony in my second room and 65 in my main room. Both just under £1000. So not what you would call high end. I reset my picture on one tv for cinema. I did know about the 24fps for movies but just very slightly tweaked the contrast and turned off advance contrast and all the other fiddly settings and never looked better. Got to say I did this with all including the hdr and Dolby vision settings. Same result. All very minimalistic but big difference and very natural. Have to also mention even after resetting all my picture options the picture looked better, so everything I did personally before this clearly just ruined the picture. Everything looks really natural now Color’s and everything. Just need to do the same with the other TV. Learned something from your video and subbed. Thanks
To be honest, I was very skeptical about the film mode. But I followed all the steps you recommended. I think my Samsung 4K tv has now the perfect setting. However I also think it's all about the content you are watching. Watching an HDR documentary on Netflix makes a big difference than standard HD live TV.
Kevin spacey giving me help setting my tv
Highlight of my Friday
"Kevin Spacey". Lol...stop it!
One of you guys had a question he answered in the video about “What should you set your digital audio output to?”
That’s a great question, I happened to have a lot of experience and knowledge when it comes to Home Theater set ups. So I decided to give out more information about whoever asked that question, and this information I’m about to give you are actual facts lol. You can verify if you’d like. So Years ago I learned when it comes to your TVs Sound/audio settings is this…
If you are using an external source (gaming console/blue ray player) with a receiver or soundbar by HDMI ARC OR eARC you definitely want to change your Digital output audio to either passthrough or AUTO on your tv. (you only leave it on PCM if your just using the tv speakers) If you are using a receiver or soundbar, however alll this time(years ago) I left my setting on Passthrough because I assumed it would let the external audio source control everything, because that’s what passthrough means, that’s not always true most of the time. You want to choose Auto! This goes for LG and Samsung 4K TV’s. Because I have experience with them. And for some reason it makes no sense but it’s true so listen up…
For my set up I have an Xbox series X, Samsung 4K HDR10+ Tv and a Samsung HW-Q700A soundbar (Dolby atmost/DTS:X) with the rear speaker kit. So basically my xbox turns any game or movie I’m watching into Dolby atmos, but when I was using the audio setting set to “passthrough” in tv settings, I didn’t realize it wasnt the true audio format for Dolby atmos even though my tv and Xbox sound settings were set to Dolby atmos-passthrough. I found out because anytime I switch between a streaming app or game Dolby atmos should pop up every time on my soundbar screen. I was wondering why it would never pop up letting me know, because my Dolby atmos speakers were still on, I decided to change my digital audio output format to AUTO instead of PASSTHROUGH! Now every time I switch between apps or games “Dolby atmos” pops up on my soundbar letting me know my Xbox is formatting everything I do into Dolby atmos. Of course I’m using my current set up as an example, 5 years ago on an older xbox,Samsung 4K tv and sound bar is when I realized and learned this. So basically no matter what especially if your using a external HDMI source with a external receiver or soundbar connected to your tv, when any content supports Dolby atmos/DTS:X your receiver/ soundbar should pop up every time letting you know your spatial audio format is turned on. But for me using a Xbox series X, everything is always in Dolby Atmos, and for anyone else who has a gaming console hooked up to their tv with an external sound source then just keep this in mind when your switching between a game or streaming app on your console, Atmo/DTS should pop up each time, if it’s not make sure your TV’s digital audio format is set to AUTO because sometimes passthrough does not work even though passthrough lets your external device set the sound format which is basically the Samething as Auto…. LG and Samsung sometimes have this weird glitch.
Motion Smoothing gets a a lot of hate, but I personally keep it turned on. I can’t stand any slight stutter or judder. I love the Smooth Crisp look it gives
I hate both judder and motion smoothing. Compromised and used a custom or “user” setting on LG’s WebOS and set it to 1/10
I like motion smoothing. easy on your eyes especially on big screen
@@ganjabobby now that is exactly what I did and it works perfect plus there's no better TV out there that can match the specs of the LG CX for both ps5 n Xbox series X and a third of the price of some Sony TVs that only have 2 2.1hdmi and not even vrr or allm like the new A90J which is a joke
I work as a broadcast engineer and I can say that this kind of topic can get very philosophical. The important thing to realise is we cannot assume that any two people will perceive the same thing the same way. Everything taints the image, from the type of camera and colour temperature used, the medium it was recorded with film/digital/conversion? the colour space of the transmission RGB/YUV/ or 422/444?, what about the components of the tv? We can even go down to the lighting in your living room and what colour your walls are. The list goes on before you even get to the individual’s ability to perceive any of it. What is the benchmark that says the image accurately represents every original source material?
I'm a novice at this stuff and it's shit like this that drives me insane.
I bought a record player and speakers based off of your recommendations... I was not at all disappointed. I come looking again for improved settings for my new TV and am equally impressed!
Having the TCL R635 I found the Movie mode was by far the best mode. Besides that setting it to Brightest and Warm and making the picture settings to taste worked best for me.
Great video!
2 years ago, when I got my first 4k TV, it took a couple hours of web-searching to find most of the recommendations that you have consolidated into a single video.
13:49 Summary of all settings to change on TV to make it accurate
I know this video is 3 years old, but I just came across it recently, and it really helped me with changes I had to make to my home theatre set up because my TIVO PVR was no longer working properly, and my carrier was now promoting the EPICO cloud based PVR system. When I installed the new Epico system, my 4 year old 65” LG OLED tv suddenly had the worst picture image possible. It was like a Vivid setting on steroids. I played around with various settings in the Standard User picture mode but just couldnt get a picture that came close to the TIVO set up. After watching your video, I switched to the Cinema picture mode, adjusted a few setting and now have acceptable picture quality. Its definitely not as bright as when I had the TIVO system, but I dont have those extreme black and white settings that came with the initial Epico set up. I will probably tweak the settings a bit more at a later date, but will stay with my current set up to help my brain get over the harsh blue, whites and blacks. Thank you for the very informative video.
Great content. At the end of the day I just rotated the antenna clockwise and the picture cleared right up. 👍
I'm not a candidate for professional calibration, not that I wouldn't like it, but because I'm colorblind, as well as it's not super important to get 100% accuracy for me. If I can get to 90% or better I'm good with that. So your 5 steps are perfect.
Thanks Andrew, your suggestion have made a drastic change to my viewing pleasure.
Hi Andrew, I play all my content with PC, and there are two other important settings worth to mention. 24p setting for LCD picture repetition rate (Judder free play), and the 0-255 RGB setting for the real color space. Sometimes you need to adjust those also with a blue ray player for optimal result.
Also good points. I wanted to keep this video a little more straightforward or simple for people that may be a little newer to TV adjustment(s). But yes, with computers and sources you may have to look for the RGB settings etc.
Back in my youth (I am now 52), as a young boy, I had the immense pleasure of walking in a Sears store and walk up to the wall of TVs that would be made of over 5 x 20 units of various sizes and zoom in/walk to the cheapest one (usually a “Candle” or "Sharp" or "Citizen" branded cheapy that was really a disguised Toshiba 16” color screen TV and would simply adjust the rolling buttons beneath the screen (how I miss those) after having deactivated the dreaded auto-adjust button (since it always made the image too “hot” with oversaturated colors!) and made sure that by the time i was done adjusting the image (this usually took no more that 40 seconds!), this cheapest TV was properly adjusted (Hue, Contrast, Brightness, Sharpness, etc.) and therefore was the best looking in that wall of TV. And boy, it was not even subtle. This was really a visual statement and nice to see.
Of course this was very funny to my 10 year old self as it automatically made that TV stand out (and above, visually wise) from all the other units as the “best looking TV” while being the cheapest of the bunch. :)
Sales rep did were not always amused & aven sometime asked my Dad to keep me away OR to adjust the other units/TVs. LOL
Funny how just using basic adjustments (and good visual judgment) was not part of the habits of the time.
Then again, same thing today is what I observe way too often.
Whenever I go (“Went” because of covid-19) to a friend or family member’s house and the giant screen flat TV was on, I rapidly have ask if I may quickly adjust the image…
Sure enough, after just a few minutes of adjustments (it always takes more time than simple dials of olds to play with the setup OSD menus), they usually prefer seing more natural looking people on the screen after I'm done adjusting. "Geez, I didn't know this could look so good. I was just thinking of getting a new one, but now I don't need to."
So, just like in audio gear, proper setup is key for best results and enjoyment. Funny that…
Cheers.
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Don’t be “that guy” that adjusts other people’s TV
@@Encourageable -- Hey, I only now do it with permission and knowledge that they can always get it back to oversaturated and exaggerated image set-up. ;)
The color temperature tip helped a lot!
I really thought I was looking at the best with the neutral or cool temperatures.. Now I set my sony bravia to expert1 temperature and it looks so much natural
Glad this was helpful! Appreciate you watching.
Andrew: The main thing people are not aware of is that most homes (even brand new homes) have dirty electricity. A good power conditioner is of the absolute must to achieve better audio and video. ...such as the Emotiva CMX-2/4 and Furman.
Perhaps you do a review of power conditioners in the near future.
NONSENSE. THE POWER SUPPLY TAKES CARE OF IT. YOU TALK RUBBISH
just bought LG 65inch Nano 8k, after messing about myself with picture getting worse and feeling i had wasted my money, I followed your instructions and now I have an amazing picture, Thanks
For best video/sound quality, is it better to use an AppleTV 4K or stick to the in-TV apps? I bought an SonyX900H and feel the Apple TV offers better video, comments?
What do you think about using the toslink out, to a quality DAC/ preamp, to amp and speakers. For streaming a music app using the TV. Is that going to give a quality digital signal that my dac can turn into HiFi analog? I already stream through my receiver, but it is an AVR and I think I can get better sound with a stand alone 2 channel setup for music. Or should I go a different route.
I use a computer monitor as a tv with a 3rd gen Chromecast dongle and try to keep my monitor as close to 50% or 60% colour and contrast and brightness. I use a computer monitor because not a lot of TV manufacturers still make 24-inch TVs that are good quality. Good quality TV manufacturers like Sony don't even have TVs lower than 42 inches (at the time of writing). Even 32 inches is a little bit more than then I need. I live in a small studio apartment unit and I don't need a wall of tv. People used to enjoy 19 inch portable TVs and even 24 inch TVs decades ago, now in the 21st century people are enjoying 100 inch TVs and projectors that light up 100 inches.
I nailed it :P. My two recommendations were your first ones xD. I own a 10 year old DisplayCal colorimeter and back then it was night and day on a projector. Projectors are more prone to needing them, since the manufacturer can't know the surface you are going to use to display it. They are 100% worth it on low end and high end projectors. For TVs and Monitors, I don't think they are unless you are too into it as a hobby, or have a lot of TVs. A colorimeter is 200 dollars and Calman software is at least 150 (although if you spend the time to learn, HCFR is free and for monitors there's DisplayCal too) High-end TV's already come with delta Es under 3. So it's unlikely people will be able to even see the benefits. I'm a monitor fan-boy and replace them every 2 years, and it didn't make much difference on my last one. I plan on getting a new one capable of calibrating HDR Displays, but it's last on my priority list since my LG CX has great color out of the box.
*Andrew I don't mean to be bold, but your video got me thinking.* Who watches TV for enjoyment. Humans or calibrating equipment. You say humans are wrong if a calibrated TV looks wrong. I can understand that eyes adjust to light, and in order to get a screen to look good in every type of content, you have to find the average flat response. But if you tune the picture by eye using many different image examples and find the best compromise that looks good on them all, that is calibrated to the human eye. Your human eye to be specific. Not calibrated to an engineering device. Tools are supposed to make the job easier, not tell you that you are wrong and you do not know what you are supposed to like. I would only trust a calibration tool if it calibrated the screen to how humans see light. Biometrically tuned to me personally.
To clarify, everyone has different eyes and ears, so we tune our equipment accordingly. When we get older and the high frequencies tail off, we turn up the treble on the hifi to compensate. That is different to calibrating studio monitors to give a base line neutral sound for consumers to work from. Not everyone has perfect eyes. Most people are slightly colour blind to some degree, especially men, and so you boost a colour the your sensors are weak to so you see a neutral blend. It will look right to your eyes even if a calibration device says it is wrong. And you stand there telling us we are wrong. Too many people are making money out of thus calibration con.
It's all FOMO when everyone is afraid someone with better eyes will say the colours on your TV are out of whack, when it looks balanced to you. So you get it calibrated and all the colour are out of whack with your eyes, but you live with it because this is how it is supposed to be. Bullcrap.
I watched this in my theater so only now can I comment and tick the like. I went in and did 4/5 adjustments and no biggie but that said when the OLED is 4K/120 I will be having a pro come up to calibrate the Panasonic 9000, the Marantz SR8015 with the TV. I could work it out but my time is worth more than having to read manuals that I have had to dig out of professional releases to know my way around the process.
You shouldn't turn off motion interpolation all the way because the judder is too high on modern tv's, you should put it around "2/10" or "low" depending on TV brand, that way it doesn't look choppy and not high enough to make it look like a soap opera effect.
Most motion smoothing/interpolation settings do way too much even on low settings. I'll take judder over soap opera any day
@@EonHSD Depending on the tv i do use it at least on 1. No soap opera effect and gets rid off judder
@@EP-pg3xs lg has a great cinema motion one. It’s great. Does it job well and no soap opera
Andrew great video - thank you. As a still photographer I find myself fiddling a fair amount and your hints were valuable. To answer your question - no - I do not want professional calibration for two reasons: 1) Unless the calibrator came on good recommendation, I don’t trust that they would necessarily know what they were doing. 2) Much like audio, what is “best” I think depends more than a little bit on content - so often I simply look at custom (which I set up using recommendations in another TH-cam video), Cinema Home and Cinema Pro. Sony 900F. Best holiday wishes to you and Kristi!
I’m about to purchase a new tv, looking at the Sony X90K.. this video has eased so much anxiety about the time it takes to get things looking right. Highly appreciated.
❤❤❤ literally just made my sanyo tv so much better to watch. My settings were all over the place, tv looked dark as heck! Thank you.
I've never calibrated my TV, but I always do with my PCs monitors. Its been a godsend for artwork and photography.. even if all 3 of my displays are different ages & use different panel tech, they're consistent enough that I know I'm more likely to be getting an accurate representation across all other devices, without obvious skews towards one color or another, or something that is too bright or dark from having a bad calibration.
If every youtuber had your class, we'd live in a better world
Amen
The settings prescribed is exactly what my 'eyes' told me to believe...Tried various settings but the ones you have suggested is what i have settled in for last 3 months in my Samsung RU7100...However viewing HDR is hit or miss and have to resort to 'Dynamic mode' for the extra oomph!!
Yeah, HDR is a real mess/crap shoot. I personally am not that big of a fan, as I find most displays do not have the requisite light output to give us the image quality I believe the filmmakers want us to see. But it is getting better with each passing generation.
@@andrewrobinsonreviews Exactly!!...Anyways, Excellent video as usual...Keep up the good work!!
I love this type of video, very down to earth, easy to understand without being an expert, and really helping.
Thank you. Please make plenty of those in 2021 (and for the many years to come).
i've always been calibrating my tv the best I can, but I will admit it's by eye, but I already knew quite a few of these tips and settings that you talked about and recommended. I May have to go back through to check a few settings though!
In my mind, for video and audio, by going down the rabbit hole of chasing the last 5% improvement in a system lies madness.
I change the most important things that get me 90% or 95% there and then I don't really change settings anymore *unless* I feel something is truly wrong. Like the other day when motion interpolation had turned itself back on. Otherwise I would just go insane because at that point any improvements may very well just be in my head anyway.
Maybe with the exception of HDR, I feel like sometimes you have to readjust HDR settings for every new source (like for instance different video games, which also come with their own HDR settings and quirks).
That said I am really glad modern TVs are usually much better calibrated from the factory nowadays and like you said, changing it to it's movie mode is usually good enough. At least for Video, because with eARC, I spend much more time troubleshooting audio than I am troubleshooting video these days ...
Yeah, I'm still amazed that audio continues to have its issues in 2020.
@@andrewrobinsonreviews I did kinda jump headfirst into that one, with a new TV and a soundbar using this cutting edge technology. I was expecting some issues, but it has for sure been a bit more frustrating than I expected at first.
But LG and SONOS have been at least pushing out patches that have solved *most* issues by now.
Thank you! I got a new HDR set and everything through the cable box was maxed red... everything looked like it was on fire. Your vid reminded me that HDR settings per HDR/non-HDR content can be set differently and when I turned it to auto, non-HDR cable content corrected, while Dolby Vision through Netflix and HDR10 from my PlayStation 5 still looked correct.
Great video.Very informative! I have some visual problems, so I like my picture to be quite bright, but I will definitely use your guide to help me get the best picture possible! Thankyou!
Thank you for watching and I hope this helps!
I bought Samsung 55q60t, and at first, I wasn't happy, but, I found on Internet calibration for my model done by Rtings, and I'm more than happy with the results.
Thank you for all the great vids. I very much look fwd to them. I just recently bought an LG oled and I was immediately impressed by the improvement in sound with the earc. Picture wise, it came out of the box set on vivid. I now have it set on standard and I find that to be comfortable. I believe Santa will be bringing me a Yamaha RXV6A for Christmas and I can only blame you for that! Happy Holidays.
Enjoy your setup and thank you so much for watching!!!
I have the same combo...I was thrilled, I hope you will be, too. Be Safe.
Thanks, very helpful. My LG CX arrived in Standard mode and picture quality seemed so disappointing until I had a chance to explore the other modes. I think I’ve since applied most of the relevant four adjustments you suggest for OLED so it does look great now. The idea of a professional calibration does seem interesting but it strikes me as something of an expensive luxury given how good the set looks without it. One point concerns me if I did go down that route too : I have a calibration device that I use with a high-end PC photography monitor and, while it does a good job, the process has to be repeated periodically as the calibration wanders off a bit so the system advises repeating. Does that situation not also apply to TV calibration so that the calibrator would have to revisit from time to time?
" I have a calibration device that I use with a high-end PC photography monitor" - i1 display pro? If so you can easily use calman autocal to calibrate the screen. If you are already farmiliar with calibrating your monitor it shouldnt be too hard to learn theres a lot of youtube videos on the process. And OLED's apparently don't need to be calibrated as often, but regardless even if you never calibrated it again it would probably forever be more accurate then out of the box.
U crazy. Bust that bad boy out on your TV and calibrate that puppy
Should the cinema/warm setting be on for games as well? I always knew it was definitely needed for movies because of how they were mastered. Games are mastered differently right? So is warm needed for them too? Great vid. ✌&❤
No if it's next gen it should auto turn to game settings to get the best out of your console, that's what game user is for, it's for HDR 4k 120fps if it's 2.1hdmi but yeah you can change game to cooler or warmer but keep sheetings on game when on console
depends on the game
some are mastered like movies, some aren't
I have a TCL 6 Series TV and I also have found the "Standard" mode to be the best mode available. You are the first that I saw that mentioned this, all other channels said put it to "Movie" mode. Subscribed!
@@AthanasiosEmmanouilidis It’s actually “movie” mode for optimal picture across all TCL tvs and if YOU like “standard”, all the better, it’s just a bit brighter! Do have a soundbar, hehe…
This guy sounds like the voice overs for every action movie trailer ever made ….” One man on a mission, one woman that’s clueless “ lol 😂
I used to make trailers and posters for movies, so I guess that tracks.
Speaking a someone that watches movies and TV shows on projector I kind of love the smooth motion feature to the extent that I now hate the shudder effect you get when it is turned off. I think calling it the soap opera effect is an incorrect reference to when TV first went HD and cheap TV shows like soap opera looked really bad because the makeup and sets weren’t designed for HD viewing. When I watch something with the smooth motion feature turned on I don't think it looks like a soap opera however I can imagine if you suffer from some kind of motion sickness it would be unappealing particularly on a big screen. To me smooth motion makes a TV show or movie more immersive giving it more of a 3D effect and I think that is what people really have a problem with (that more immersive effect) but once you get use to higher frame rates going back to 24FPS feels more jarring. The first time I watched a TV show in 4K on a laser project with smooth motion turned on it was pretty jaw dropping. One of the first things I saw was the new "Lost in Space" TV series and when watching the scene where they are walking through the forest, I almost felt like I could walk into the forest and look behind the trees to see if someone was hiding there. Going back to 24FPS and that "unnatural" shudder was actually a huge come down from what felt a lot "smoother" and immersive. I’m guess on TV it would be less noticeable.
I am an ISF Calibrator, Nice video
Do you service Iowa?
Movie and filmmaker are way too dark on my 2020 samsung q80t.
Details in darker scenes get crushed. I don't want some expert telling me how the settings should be. My eyes tell me.
Thank you! This saves me a ton of time tweaking and fiddling and second-guessing, wondering if I have it “accurate“ or not. So helpful!
Great to hear!
To me cooler pictures look wrong and I immediately change to a warmer profile. Do I have some sort of super power?
Super in my book.
i always immediately turn it to neutral. i don't want everythjng to be blue or brown.
What is the best picture settings for Sanyo roku tv's? Also what is color space in picture settings??
my true motion option is locked for some reason? i have a mag tv powerd by webos and most of its functions are locked...
Maybe that option is attatched to the picture mode you're using.
If possible try changing the input settings so you can tell the TV you're using a PC in speciffic HDMI ports. That way you'll get interpolation off immediately as well as good time response and native picture displayed on your TV. Then you can start changing the resting settings.
Hey! This helped me out a lot. I was given a TV and had no idea how to fix the smooth (unnatural) motion thing. Just didn't know what I was looking for, but trying to watch a movie was painful until I found out how to disable that. Why on earth anyone thinks this is a good idea is beyond me. It also fixed the flicker I would see in my videos that included the TV in the background which I knew should not be happening as the camera settings matched the TV's 60Hz refresh rate.
ITS DONE TO MAKE IT LOOK COOL
15:30 - This is one of the biggest misperceptions, and misinformation on the Sharpness setting out there, and I'm glad you cleared this up. The minimum setting for sharpness is not ideal for all makes and models within a brand. I've even read and heard ISF trained calibrators instruct users, just a matter of housekeeping(!), to turn their sharpness control all the way down. NO! What you recommended - adjusting sharpness just until any artificial edging or thick lines disappear, is the correct way.
It will "flatten" the TV's picture response - meaning sharpness is no longer adding to or subtracting from the image.
For SDR I chose ISF Expert Bright mode. That's ok for TV shows and most of the 1080p content. According to the incoming signal, my LG OLED offers me automatic Filmmaker Mode detection when watching movies and I'm fine with that. The picture quality is superb.
He Reminds me of Kevin spacey, great vid 👍🏼
I have a dated 7 yr old Sony Bravia, and just bought a Bose sound bar, should I connect that to the HDMI arc port? Or my Chromecast, thanks for the very informative videos 👍
i generally believe that if TV's came with auto-calibration it would be more of a game changer than HDR content. It's already implemented on the computer side of things with monitors like ezio employing auto-calibration every 200hrs. I little thing pops down on its own. So it's possible. This is all set to environment the tv is in. Sadly it would kill an industry almost over night though.
but i have supison you'll start seeing it soon
Messed up my Samsung qled Q60A by pressing hdmi calibration on service menu does anyone have the exact values or similar for the ADC/WB menu. I got it close by using the Samsung pattern but doesn't feel day one. Whatever you do Do not press hdmi calibration otherwise comes up saying failure and Messes up all your tv picture
This explanation you started to give at 4:19 might as well been written for me. Great advice, I'm actually in the process of adjusting a new TCL 635 and that normal mode plus normal setting and brighter picture setting is so seducing for all the reasons you explained, but I feel like it's about to either give me a tan or leave me blind. I always kept it for also the exact reasons you said until now when I switched it to warm it felt yellowish by contrast. I'm gonna give the normal+warm temperature a real shot now.
My Hisense H8G pic settings:
Backlight: 100%
Local Dimming: High
Standard mode
Temp: Mid-Low
Motion: Clear
NR/DNR: Off
Active Contrast: Medium
Enhanced Viewing Angle: On
Color Space: Native
I like motion engagement cause it helps my eyes follow along.
My optical is set to Auto because my soundbar supports Dolby Digital and PCM would exclude it.
Backlight should be around 50 60% if you want it to last
@@broken1965 I'll just buy a new one that's better since this one was cheap
Another video that makes me glad I subscribed to your channel. I made the adjustments during your video. I have a Sony and it’s always been set at Vivid/cool. Thanks
When I changed my TV settings a couple of years ago to be accurate, it initially made me a bit uncomfortable. It looked a bit bland.
But after nearly 2 days, it became normal. And now when I change it to it's original setting, I freaking hate it. e.g: The contrast was originally at 45% and sharpness at 50% but (after reading about TV settings) I changed Contrast to 90% and sharpness to 5%. And my Blu-rays look amazing. Previously I was wondering why even a Blu-ray copy looked poor but now I see how decreased contrast and increased sharpness messed up the quality.
What I'm saying is, trust his advice and change your settings.
P.S: At least change the colour temp to warm for accurate movie experience. Don't watch movies in Vivid or Dynamic as it's horrendous.
This is what people don't understand. You need to give your eyes time to adjust to the new image presentation. You can't just make a snap judgement about whether you like it or not.
Recently made the jump to a 4K HDR Qled from my old 1080p TV. I figured I made some un-needed changes playing around with the settings because I'm new to more modern TV's and features, but realized I've actually already made all the right changes suggested in this video. But my new TV does do a pretty good job explaining what each setting/feature does in the menus. Still a very informative video.
Just out of curiosity, is there any argument to be made for using inaccurate settings that please your brain? In certain artistic formats - oil painting for example - you sometimes have to make things more contrasty because the brain sees a painting differently than the same scene in real life, or so I have been told and I basically know nothing about it, LOL, but it seems like a valid question. This idea would probably involve some compromise between the obviously too punchy vivid mode and full on professionally accurate modes.
It's a fair question, and in reality when you buy a TV you somewhat get an answer regarding inaccuracies pleasing the brain. While there are a lot of TVs that get close to being "calibrated" out of the box, none are textbook and most have a mild bias towards producing a more contrasty or blue image because, as you point out, it's what "we" like to see. So you're not wrong. It doesn't make the TV correct or accurate, but it may make it more pleasing to the majority of viewers. Great question.
What about dynamic contrast on a tcl 4 series turn on or off low or high?
Off!!! It’s just another layer you put on top of it, turn every enhancement off.
1. turn off anything ECO
2. Make sure HDMI deepcolour (or similar) is turned on
3. turn off all post processing effects.
the end
HDR deepcolour
I just purchased the LG GX 77in comes in tomorrow...I’m definitely gonna get it professionally calibrated
I think if you want to get the most out of these top-tier displays, professional calibration is a great investment.
How about gamma settings?
A gamma of 2.2 is the norm, but as always, adjust to taste. You may lose some detail in the black if say, set to 2.4.
I've been wanting to use a professional ISF calibrator but I can't afford it yet got my cx. Great video :)
Save your money and go somewhere nice when it's safe to travel again. Pro Cal is not worth it IMO.
Which TV is that on 13:14 ?
That info should be noted in the description.
Beautiful video, nothing I haven't heard, but your level of detail and descriptions is perfect.
Amazing guide 👍🏻, Andrew.
Thank you 😊
Hope you found it helpful.
@@andrewrobinsonreviews Very.
Would a TCL 65" (5 series) benefit appreciably from a professional calibration? Thanks for your informative channel.
Any TV will benefit from calibration however I'm not a proponent for calibrating budget TVs as I don't think it's a very good value proposition.
@@andrewrobinsonreviews thank you sir.
After watching this it makes me want to learn how to do professional calibration.
Yes! Just got a new tv. Perfect timing for the video.
I have an LG and with local dimming turned on (even on low), there are very obnoxious columns of light that follow any source of light in the film around (Think Harry Potter with his wand illuminated in a dark hall). These columns extend all the way up and down the screen from the source of light. This is extremely distracting during dark scenes of movies, especially when there content is in 18:9 because the black bars at the top and bottom magnify this effect and dance around left to right constantly. Because of this, I have turned local dimming completely off which is disappointing because it was a feature for which I had high expectations.
It’s because your TV has its backlight is only edge lit like mine. Local dimming really depends on how it’s backlight is lit so it’s really made for either direct lit or, more importantly, a full array backlight. Which is another but much better LED TV
@@epiclightning6845 thanks for the explanation! I didn't know there were different types of back lighting
Anything edge lit is a$$
Any thoughts about something like a spyderx?
Really great advice... trying it now, and I'll never be able to afford an outside consultant. My wife just complained yesterday about brightness changing.
I hope it helps!
Always turn off dynamic light or that dreaded light sensor
What brands/models are the best regardlng colour branding?
Like your voice man! Wow!👍
Do you recommend any DYI calibration tools like the spears and munsil dvd ?
I do not.
Maaaate! Thankyou!
Just adjusted some of my settings, everything is so much nicer and more clear!
This is after ive spent 2 years fidling and adjusting.
So much better after this vid, now time to get a pro out to make it perfect!
Great to hear!
You solved my audio issue with my LG Optical. Thanks. PCM
I had my TV "calibrated" by Best Buy and he was not able to do anything beond what I had already done. What I had alredy done was setting it up to the 5 setting you just recommended.
You're saying that you were able to do what other people pay several hundred dollars for a service that takes a couple hours - hooking up various programs to expensive equipment that makes adjustments that are beyond what is possible without said equipment?
But despite that, you paid for them to do nothing?
Are you saying that all they did was play with your controller? Or that they hooked all of their equipment up before telling you that there's nothing more that they could do?
Another good video. Great that you showed a summary of what adjustments to make. Very informative and helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Bet you can do an awesome Kevin spacey impression. 👍
Excellent video Andrew, one question: how do you set your tv to be always as an art display like a painting? Is that an app or images in a usb multimedia?
It depends on what kind of TV you have some TV's have a gallery preloaded, some you can upload your own or select via wifi. Some TV's will go to that screen for a screen saver and some is a mode you can select. Samsung products have it to where you can use your own and select from their selection you can even take a picture of your wall and it makes it blend right into your wall, it's pretty neat.
My 25 year old plasma died the other day and I replaced it with a Blaupunkt Android Full HD model. What a shock in the picture department! Awful. Thanks for this vid Andrew, I’ve made some recommended adjustments thank you, but I’m finding that what’s great in Live TV ain’t that good in say, TH-cam or any of the other WiFi sourced channels. One thing that is good is the sound quality through my hifi system. Gotta have a sub‼️Regards to you both✌️🌻
My Samsung 8500 series died in July. Get another plasma. Trust me.
Brilliant presentation. Well structured, good pace, concise. Love the questions section at the end after the recap...I will be recommending this structure to my own educators.
Useful info and tips too!