Controls the light intensity of the entire display. We’ll discuss below why that is, but for now trust that you’re actually seeing more fine detail, and the image is more lifelike. At first, the TV might even look soft or too warm (“reddish”). These will dial back some of the more garish aspects of the picture. The TV is its least accurate in this mode, with typically blown-out colors and image “enhancing” features that might catch the eye on a shelf in a store, but at home might make the TV look worse than it could.Ī place to start is switching to the mode called Cinema, Movie, Calibrated or Filmmaker. If you’ve never changed this setting it’s probably still the default mode, typically labeled Standard, Vivid, Dynamic, Bright or something similar. This one setting controls multiple other settings to change the overall “look” of your TV. Your TV’s picture mode has the largest effect on overall picture quality. We tackle a lot of the variations below, but we can’t account for every TV-maker, especially on older models, so your mileage may vary. A setting one TV-maker calls “brightness” could control something totally different on another TV, for example. Here’s how.Ī word of warning before we begin however: Picture setting names are all over the place. Even without a disc or a pro, however, you can get your picture quality looking better just using your eyes and the options available in your TV’s settings menu. You can also get your TV professionally calibrated , but the service is expensive and for most people won’t offer enough of an improvement to justify the cost. In an ideal world you’d use a setup disc, like the Spears & Munsil UHD HDR or HD Benchmark Blu-rays. The best part is, finding the right settings for your TV isn’t hard, and other than your time, it can be totally free. From the cheapest LCD to the most expensive OLED and MicroLED displays, changing a few settings will improve picture quality no matter what type of programming you watch, from streaming TV to 4K HDR movies to video games. 
With a few easy tweaks of its picture settings, your TV can look better than it does right now.
From choosing the best picture mode to tweaking contrast, brightness, sharpness and more, here’s how to get maximum quality out of your TV.
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