Robert
Member
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 nudging luminance while you sit there wondering why the same scene looked better last night. Kill that before you touch anything else, otherwise you are calibrating against a moving target.
After that the picture mode. Vivid and Dynamic are showroom modes and should be treated as such. Standard is the least wrong of the defaults but it is still not where you want to land - go to Filmmaker, Cinema, Movie or Theater depending on whose menu you are in. Hisense splits it into Theater Day and Theater Night. Sony renamed its accurate mode to Professional this year, which is going to confuse anyone coming from an older Sony where the one you wanted was called Custom. Then turn off the sharpening and whatever the brand is calling its AI picture feature this season, because those tend to over-brighten and drag the colour off.
The step that has genuinely got worse is the account. A Samsung S95H wants a Samsung account before it will let you at the apps, and a Google TV set like the Bravia 9 II wants one for the app store. That used to be optional. Now it is a gate on hardware you already paid for.
Which brand is worst about the eco setting turning itself back on after a firmware update? Mine has done it twice and I am starting to think it is not an accident.
After that the picture mode. Vivid and Dynamic are showroom modes and should be treated as such. Standard is the least wrong of the defaults but it is still not where you want to land - go to Filmmaker, Cinema, Movie or Theater depending on whose menu you are in. Hisense splits it into Theater Day and Theater Night. Sony renamed its accurate mode to Professional this year, which is going to confuse anyone coming from an older Sony where the one you wanted was called Custom. Then turn off the sharpening and whatever the brand is calling its AI picture feature this season, because those tend to over-brighten and drag the colour off.
The step that has genuinely got worse is the account. A Samsung S95H wants a Samsung account before it will let you at the apps, and a Google TV set like the Bravia 9 II wants one for the app store. That used to be optional. Now it is a gate on hardware you already paid for.
Which brand is worst about the eco setting turning itself back on after a firmware update? Mine has done it twice and I am starting to think it is not an accident.
