According to sociological research, the average citizen spends 4, 7 hours daily in front of a TV screen. At the same time, many do not even suspect that the picture that we contemplate for so many hours every day can be much better, and the TV settings that are well suited for displaying it in a store are far from always optimal for an apartment or house. Although modern LCD or Plasma TVs are a masterpiece of technology, setting up a TV is a snap.
- Brightness is the amount of light in the dark areas of the picture. If the brightness is too high, the dark areas will merge with the black ones, and the image details will deteriorate. To properly adjust the brightness, select a video that has black bars at the top and bottom of the image - these will become the black reference. Reduce the brightness until they are truly black. If details are lost in dark areas of the image, increase the brightness slightly.
- Contrast - the degree of detail in the light areas, or the strength of the luminescence of the entire picture as a whole. To customize it, select an image where there is a lot of white, for example, a polar bear at the North Pole. Adjust the contrast to maximum, then lower it until details are clearly visible.
- Saturation, or hue, sets the intensity of the color gamut. Too saturated picture is not realistic, moreover, it may acquire a reddish tint. At zero saturation, the image will be black and white. To adjust the saturation, you need a close-up image of the person's face. Increase the saturation until the face appears slightly sunburned, then gradually reduce it to a natural skin tone.
There are a few more options to tune your TV:
Sharpness - Determines how blurry the edges of objects on the screen are. For movies played from discs, the value can be set to 0.
Hue - the optimal value for this parameter is 50%.
Note that in general, for a high quality image, especially HD, all these settings can rather degrade its perception. Their main task is to help make poor quality images acceptable to human perception.
