Robert Heron: You can just turn on your HDTV and start watching. But you won't get the best picture and sound, unless you calibrate or adjust your unit. You might also consider a DVD calibration system from your favorite electronic store, just be sure to work with your HDTV. You can also find popular calibration systems at these websites. Your manual tells how to calibrate using your remote and on screen menus, you can adjust brightness and contrast as well as sharpness. Factory settings on TV's are almost tweak to maximum brightness and contrast, so that the TV pictures will pop on the store floor compared to other models.
So to begin, you want to turn down the brightness and contrast until they are about one-third to one-half of their standard intensity all cross your screen.
First adjust the contrast or white level, if your white level is too high the white areas of your picture bleed into the darker areas, if your white level is too low, the whites don't look truly white. Next, adjust the brightness or black level, yes you heard right. The brightness control adjusts how much black appears on screen. If the black level isn't right, the dark scenes are muddy and hard to see.
Next, adjust the sharpness that's how much fine detail you see in the picture. If the sharpness is too high, it looks like there are blobs around the objects, instead of clearly defined boundaries. If the sharpness is too low, the picture looks fuzzy; you want to adjust your color too. Setting your color too low gives you black and white or gray images, setting your colors too high makes the colors bleed together. Now adjust the tint, that's the amount of red or green in the image. Tint is pretty hard to adjust correctly, but here is a tip. Adjust the tint to flesh tones. So, if a person's face looks reddish and they look like if they are about to explode, and turn down the red. Using a preset you can make this adjustment easier.
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