picture settings

  1. Robert

    The setting I kill first on a new TV is the light sensor, not motion

    Everyone tells you to turn off motion smoothing, and yes, do that. But if you have just set up a new set and it still looks inconsistent, the ambient light sensor is the one quietly undoing your work. It ships enabled on basically everything now, it is tuned aggressively, and it will keep...
  2. Mia

    Store mode is probably still on in your new TV - check it before you calibrate

    Engadget ran a reminder piece on this and it is worth repeating here because it catches people every single year. New televisions frequently ship with store or demo mode already enabled, including sets bought online that never sat on a shelf under a single fluorescent tube. The mode cranks the...
  3. Z

    Telling your TCL 'the dialogue is lost' will now change your picture settings

    Buried in Google's CES announcement is the thing I actually want to argue about. You'll be able to tell Gemini that the screen is too dim, or that the dialogue is lost, and it will adjust picture and sound for you without opening a settings menu. Those two phrases are Google's own examples...
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