Smart TV

Strider590

Has anyone else been messing with the settings?

Anyone who perhaps does not know what they are doing?

Might be worth resetting everything to default values.....

enkoda

patman99 wrote: »

TV's 'out of the box' will never look as good as the set in the shop as the shop will have all the kit needed to callibrate the screen to give the best possible picture in order to sell the TV to you.

Absolutely not true.

TVs in shops are usually set to the most vibrant colour mode possible so that people will be drawn to them and buy them.

Shadoe

Not sure if this has been mentioned but also ensure that any equipment you have attached to your TV is set up correctly and is attached with decent cables.


Don't forget that the picture you get will only be as good as the picture provided and streaming content is notorious for being variable at best and a larger HD tv can actually make a low res video stream look worse than on a lower def tv. Also consider your internet connection, because if that is lacking in any way, you may be streaming in a lower res than you are expecting and also remember that depending on the time of day and what the shared ration of your line is, you may find streaming worse at some times of days than others.


All a bit of a minefield really.

Bigphil1474

I've got a 42" LG TV, different model though. Took me a few weeks to get the settings right, and even then you need to switch between modes depending on source - on mine Cinema is good for streamed services, but rubbish for movies from the bluray player. 'Normal' TV is usually okay on standard, but for the playstation I use 'user defined' settings.
It sounds obvious, but you need to read the manual, go through all the options and find what suits your eye, your room/positioning of tv etc. as it all affects what you see. I'm a big fan of LG stuff in general, so honestly can't see it being the tv unless you have a dud.

almillar

patman99

TV's 'out of the box' will never look as good as the set in the shop as the shop will have all the kit needed to callibrate the screen to give the best possible picture in order to sell the TV to you.

enkoda

Absolutely not true.
TVs in shops are usually set to the most vibrant colour mode possible so that people will be drawn to them and buy them.

patman99's wrong. Do you think Currys go round the shop with specialist equipment calibrating TVs?! They're turned on, and they'll be in 'shop mode', 'demo mode' or at least 'dynamic'.
The mode in the shop will be everything (brightness especially) turned up to MAX, so it looks 'nice and bright' and people buy bright TVs. This is NOT the best picture mode at all, and will be blowing out detail, and good luck finding anything that's actually black when you get it home.

50Twuncle

We have a 42" Panasonic - the picture is brilliant (especially in HD) - It has good colour depth - but the sound is terribly tinny - due to the tiny little speakers (which I understand is common on MOST flat screen TV's) - do some have better sound than others though ?

almillar

The better branded ones, and the ones further up ranges, will have clever solutions to getting better speakers in, routing the sound better etc, whereas cheaper ones will just have speakers slapped somewhere half sensible, but the simple fact remains that there's nowhere to put decent speakers! There's also no room for a decent amplifier.

S0litaire

you can usually find the LG test videos on-line or torrent and see how LG expects the image to be like.

I have the "LG Cinema 3D" demo reel and it looks great (clear and sharp) in my room with the TV set to the default settings.

SeduLOUs

patman99 wrote: »

TV's 'out of the box' will never look as good as the set in the shop as the shop will have all the kit needed to callibrate the screen to give the best possible picture in order to sell the TV to you.

Unless you go to Currys!

I went in there to look at TVs and saw a Samsung 78" curved TV on sale for over £6k and their 'best possible picture' was showing standard definition daytime TV which was a stretched and blurry awful mess!

wongataa

S0litaire wrote: »

you can usually find the LG test videos on-line or torrent and see how LG expects the image to be like.

I have the "LG Cinema 3D" demo reel and it looks great (clear and sharp) in my room with the TV set to the default settings.

Or maybe the demo reel is made to look good with the default settings. The default settings are not the best with regards to actual TV/video footage that you watch.