Stop watching with bad TV settings: 9 ways to optimize your picture and screen
From contrast to brightness and sharpness to motion, dialing in the right picture settings can make your TV better. Here's how. Ever watch your TV and wonder if it could look better? Good news: It can. Whether you're watching the latest streaming TV show , enjoying 4K HDR movies or playing video games, tweaking a few basic picture settings can really help. Colors can look more lifelike and accurate, brightness can be comfortable for viewing in daytime and at night, and motion can look more natural. Making sense of the settings on today's TVs, however, can be super confusing. That's where this article comes in. You could buy a setup disc, like the Spears & Munsil UHD HDR or HD Benchmark Blu-rays , which have test patterns and instructions on how to adjust your screen. You can also get your TV professionally calibrated , but that kind of service is expensive and for most people won't offer enough of an improvement to justify the cost. Even w...