TV Picture Settings - Lots of pics - 56k warning

I apologize if this has been done before, a quick search didn't reveal anything so i went ahead.

I have noticed over my time here, the odd question comes up about why does my picture not look like this, or how did you get a picture so clear? etc. I original wrote this post for the AU/NZ PlayStation forums, and after a few weeks there to see if there were any amendments needed, I've decided it was time to copy it here.

This thread is here to give people a simple run down on setting up your High Definition TV for Blu-Ray/Games primarily, and will cover the basic aspects of setting up your TV for correct contrast and colour when in use. This isnt proffessional grade stuff, its done by eye and so therefore isn't the be all and end all, its just a start to improve your TV picture, get more out of your tv, save power and to extend your tv's life in the process of doing so.

This thread is aimed at users with High Definition LCD or Plasma displays. Although will work fine with most other displays no problem.

Disclaimer: This is a guide only to getting a better picture from your tv. I dont claim to know all, and i myself am learning all the time. I have been tweaking TV's over the past year and this is a simple run down of what i have come to learn so far. If i am wrong, please let me know so I can update this post with correct, or additional information.

Ideally when doing Picture settings, your TV must have been turned on for at least 30minutes to warm it up and let it settle. You should be in a dark room, with as little light hitting the screen as possible, its also an idea to have a lamp placed behind the TV for lighting as you will see in my TV pictures below. You should be using the highest quality connections you have, HDMI is best. The source of the test patterns should be in the highest quality possible, from a Blu-Ray disc, although if a DVD is the best you have, the end result won't be too far off, and should be an improvement on an uncalibrated TV.

NOTE:
Ideally you are to setup a tv in a dark room with those lighting conditions stated, but if you watch TV in different lighting conditions, during the day for example, go back and recalibrate the Brightness first, then Contrast settings in your 'normal' vewing conditions.
Setting up a TV picture in a Dark Room will be too dark for normal daylight viewing, while setting up a TV picture in the middle of the day will often be too bright for night time viewing. Often you can find a happy compromise with a slight backlight adjustment if you use your TV throughout the day. Also of note, a lot of TV's allow for multiple setting configurations, allowing you to have a Night setting and a Day setting, and you can switch between them as need be on the remote.


# Here you can see (barely) my TV and lighting arrangements for my room, provided by a 40watt bulb behind the TV. Ideal for setting up picture settings and viewing as it takes the strain off your eyes.

I will be using the Sony Picture Blu-Ray picture settings menu in this thread. I figure this to be a good start as many people here have a Sony Pictures BD (Casino Royale for any PS3 early adoptors for example) Any Sony Pictures Blu-Ray disc should have this menu that you can access, and they are easy enough to get ahold of if you want to go rent the disc for a night. Alternatives would be any THX DVD that has THX setup found in the settings menu of the DVD. You should be able to get the same results from other test discs as many of the test patterns are similar/standard and they all have the same things to look for when setting up your tv picture.

If you want more in depth tuning of your TV, you can't go past Digital Video Essentials Test Disc which you can pick up from online retailers (link below - thanx vtwin650 from Optimal Tv Settings thread of the AU/NZ PS Forums)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000V6LST0/?tag=gtplanet-20

Your PS3 settings should be the following

Video Settings Menu
BD/DVD Video Output Format (HDMI) Y Pb/Cb Pr/Cr
BD 1080p 24 Hz Output (HMDI) On (if your tv can accept this output)

Display Settings
Cross Color Reduction Filter Off (only used for Composite cables)
RGB Full Range (HDMI) Limited (Not FULL, only for Computer Monitors/Limited numbers of TV's, very rarely should you use FULL)
Y Pb/Cb Pr/Cr Super-White (HDMI) Off (this may change later on, but i'll get to that)

Now that thats sorted, throw in your copy of a Sony Pictures Blu-Ray (for this example i'm using Casino Royale) and load it up to the Menu screen.

On the Main Menu screen of the disc. Press the Triangle Button on your controller, go up to the number pad and enter the numbers 7 6 6 9 using the X button, (pic below) then go up to the Enter button at the top right and press X. You should get a very colourful set of bars comeup, when it does, press the Start Button to pause.


# The secret picture setup area of Sony Pictures Blu-Ray Discs

Go into the Picture settings of your TV's menu. First thing you'll want to do in here is change the picture mode from whatever it is set to, to Cinema (also known as Movie) Mode, doing this turns off any processing your TV does to the picture. If you dont have this option, at the very least pick 'Standard' picture mode and go from there, any other Presets, like Sport, Game, Vivid etc are quite frankly, terrible. Next, change the Colour Temperature to Warm 2 (some tv's only have a Warm, or a Warm3 setting, change it to the highest 'Warm' temp available)


# The Picture Settings menu, the one pictured is my Sony BRAVIA KLV46V300A LCD.

Next, go into advanced settings, usually found at the bottom of your Picture settings menu, and turn all of them OFF. These settings often give a false picture, providing something eye catching for the public and marketing for the manufacturers. More often than not, these will alter colours in a vibrant, but incorrect way.

Note: If you have a 100hz or 200hz tv, this setting is personal choice. If you are to have it on, leave it at 'Standard' or default. For Blu-Ray movies, you should be running 24hz (in the PS3 menu) and shouldnt need 100hz. Games dont get any benifit from 100hz, other than it can, at times, cause delays between pressing the button and what happens on screen. You should really only be using 100 or 200hz for normal TV viewing and DVD watching, not for games or blu-ray.

If you have an LCD, ajust the Backlight setting as you see fit. If your in a dark room, a lower setting would be best, the brighter the room, the higher the setting, but i wouldnt adjust it over 6 (out of 10) regardless. The lower the setting, the more power you will save while running the TV. I have mine set at 4/10 regardless of lighting conditions.

Finally, turn off All noise reduction, MPEG Noise reduction and Noise Reduction should be at Zero or Off. Only sometimes on Standard Def TV or poorly mastered DVD's would you want to turn either of these settings on. If your running HD through the TV, these settings will only hamper the picture.


#Advanced Picture settings menu of my TV.

Now that we have that sorted, we can start looking at the colourful bars on the screen. We really just need to focus on a small area of the screen, the bottom right hand corner. What we want to do here is turn your Brightness control most of the way up to see the different colours of black in our picture. Under the Red bar on the right hand side, (reading right to left) you should clearly see a lighter shade of black (that looks gray in the picture below), a darker shade (that in the picture forms a "T" under the Red bar) and then a Very Deep shade of black. If you dont see the 3rd shade of black (the very dark shade) dont worry, as this isnt the most important shade, it just tells us whether your TV/equipment can send, accept and display the shade 'blacker-than-black' or 'Below Black' signal*.

*Note: If you cant see the Below Black signal, you have one last option, press the Triangle button on your controller to bring up the menu. From here, select AV Settings, and go down to the option Y Pb/Cb Pr/Cr Super-White (HDMI) and turn that On. I have found on my TV that I had to turn this setting On to get the Below Black signal to show.


#Below Black showing on screen. You may have to squint to make out the differences in the picture, your TV should be much clearer.

Now that we can see the different Black bars at the bottom of the picture, we want to turn down the brightness until we can only just see the single bar on the right. The 'Below Black' bar will dissapear and we should be left with a flat shade of black and then a single bar which is a slightly lighter shade of black. This sets the Black level of your TV correctly and will allow you to see more detail in the darker areas of Movies/Games.


# Here you can see, after Brightness is turned down you can see mostly one shade of black, with the last bar just above black still visible. The Below Black bar has dissapeared. You may have to squint to make out the differences in the picture, your TV should be much clearer.

Press R1 on your controller to move to the next screen, then press Start again to pause it.

This screen is an interesting one, but simple enough. This screen will show you that if you have a Full HD Display, whether you are getting a full 1080p picture or not. You will have to go into your Screen adjustments menu to find the option to alter this. Most 1080p TV's will have a 'Full Pixel' Option, some call it 'Overscan' (which you should set Overscan to off for this effect)while others will just have 'Full Zoom' (or otherwise) option.

This will make sure that you are seeing the full 1920x1080pixels on screen that you paid for. In my picture below, after you alter the setting, you should see the tips of the triangles at the edge of your screen, and you see where in my picture it sez '4:3' and '3:2' at the top left and right corners? after the Full Pixel option is selected, you should get a 16:9 come in at the very edge of the screen. I can't show you in my pics as i dont have a Full HD display.


#Full Pixel - doesnt show on a 720p display

Go back to your Picture settings menu, and take this oppurtunity to turn your Sharpness option right down to Zero, or Off. Sharpness setting can create 'fake' edges to your picture, making the picture appear more detailed and possibly introducing artifacts into your picture. Turning down the sharpness removes these harsh edges and allows you to see the finer detail in the picture.

Press R1 on your controller to move to the next screen, then press Start to pause it.

Here you will see a simple greyscale picture, running from Black on the left, through the shades of grey to white at the very right. This is where we want to adjust the Contrast setting (sometimes called 'Picture' setting) What we want from this screen is a deep black at the very left hand side of the screen, and a bright white at the right hand side of the screen, and an even shift from black to white in the middle. This sets up your White colours and allows you to see detail in the brighter pictures displayed on your TV.


# Setting up your White levels. My camera doesnt show it, but the black to white gradiant should be a smooth transition from deep black to bright white.

And thats about it. You can press Start to unpause, and press R1 a few time to skip through to the end, where it should kick you back to the menu of your BD

I havnt adjusted the Colour settings as there is no accurate way to adjust colour settings without the proper tools. Whats best to do now is watch the blu-ray you've just used and look at the skin tones of the actors faces and adjust the colour setting based on the skin tones of the actors. The skin colour is one of the hardest things for a tv to get right, and if you can tweak it just enough, the other colours should fall into place relative to that. It often doesnt need too much of a tweaking after a setup your tv has been run through, but sometimes a bit more colour doesnt go astray.

Here is the end result. The first picture is my TV on 'default' settings, how it came out of the box.



And the end result a proper picture calibration



My final settings of my TV as follows.

Display Mode - Cinema
Backlight - 4
Picture - 90
Brightness - 51
Colour - 54
Hue - N/A
Colour Temperature - Warm 2
Sharpness - 0
Noise Reduction - Off
MPEG Noise Reduction - Off

Advanced Settings - All Off, Colour space set to Standard.

For games. All movies are made to a standard colour space. Games on the other hand are not regulated in the same way. So while those picture settings will be correct for all the movies you watch, games it may or may not be. Ideally if you find a game too dark (or to bright, but more commonly they are a bit too dark) use the in game options of the game to adjust the brightness.

Any questions i will be glad to help out with. I hope this has helped some of you get a better end result from your TV and will enjoy a richer viewing experience in the future

Thank you for reading.


*If this thread is in the wrong section, please move to correct, thanks.

Very nice writeup, lion-face! As soon as my cabinets are in I'll be calibrating my 50" plasma and some of these tips might come in handy. Granted, I knew a fair chunk of them, but a refresher is always nice. 👍

My one critique is in your last two pictures, the white balance is different - in the before shot the walls are white and in the after they're more orange so the pictures might not be representing the display as accurately as it could.

That aside, the calibrated shot looks great. I've been pleasantly surprised that with all 3 of the HDTV's I've bought (all Vizio's) they've been surprisingly well set for color, contrast, etc. right out of the box. Some minor adjustments, sure, but nothing huge.

And you're not in the wrong section. 👍

I ran through your set up instructions, then i compared them with some settings which were provided by a bbc tv engineer & there is no significant difference between the two pictures so I'd say that this is helpful advice for people who aren't sure how to set their screens up 👍

I've got a folder of 1080p test cards which i originally used when I first got my tv, but haven't figured out how to put them up here yet 👎

This is a very nice write-up. I wasn't aware that Sony BDs had that. I used the THX optimizer that came with the Bourne game demo on the PSN when I got my TV, but I may run through your instructions to see if I can get it to look any better.

Many thanks for these tips lion-face. It turned out that my TV wasn't running at full HD (I didn't see 16:9 at the 2nd test screen). Having fixed that, GT5p now looks stunning, where at first it merely looked great. This setting also took care of the image stuttering I was experiencing when doing a roling start at the start of any race. The aliasing is still there, but that is of course a game problem.

My TV: Philips Cineos 37" full HD with Ambilight.

I do use some TV presets, like having sharpness at 4, tint at normal (so not warm), HD Natural Motion at minimum (not off), 100 Hz Clear LCD at On and Light Sensor On. All the rest is OFF.

Thanks again. 👍

The tips helped me too. My ps3 was set to rgb full, and switching it to limited really helped me out with dark games. In socom, if it was a nighttime map I couldn't see at all, now everything looks much better.

This inspired me to have a good fiddle with the settings on my Bravia, and with the exception of the motion smoothing stuff (I set it to standard) and the RGB range (the tv and PS3 are both set to full) I followed your advice and it looks fantastic on blurays.

Took your advice and made some setting changes and wow what a big difference. Much much better. Thanks

Only just found this thread, through another one recently created in the GT5 forum. I know its pretty old but I've benefitted greatly from the tutorial and wanted to give my thanks to lion-face 👍

I also thought it worth the bump since people are still asking questions about the subject. In my opinion is very useful post.

Thanks again lion-face!

You know that on bravias with the cinema button you can have 2 different settings :like one for hd and one for sd. or tv or game...
and switch easy peacy between the 2 (I have one setting for sd and one for Hd+games)
Good thread.

Mine looks quite fine but didn't know about the Casino royale feature. as i have it i will give it a try to confirm my seetings.

Our settings are quite the same except i don't have it on warm and have a bit of saturation instead.
I imagine that a lot of different settings can give you a good pic. (as warm or cold is a hue and colour setting...)

I have 2 other pics for setting up. Will upload them as i find them

Edit: Updated pics as promised, first isgood to find the color settings (warm,normal, cold), second for saturation + contrast:

Thanks for bumping Lion-Face's very useful thread guys, I must have missed it the first time around. I'm going to make it a sticky for the Electronics forum here. 👍

Thanks for the bump and stickyness.

So, all SONY Pictures Blu-Ray have image optimizers on them? I want to give this a go.

can't complain about my Bravia hehehe.

i use a 42" viera plasma screen, i found this thread interesting coz in contradicts everything i've been told before. ill try it tonight and see if i can improve my picture quality. thanks

wow, i didnt think my picture quality could be improved, thanks for this thread. very helpful

awesome write up ... and thanks for linking to it from the other thread (that's the only way i came upon this).

Here are my current calibrated settings for my TV.

Sony KDL-46HX803 - LED Side light, 1080p, 3D.

Tv calibration settings

After calibration

Picture mode: * Custom
Backlight * * * 3-4
Contrast * * * *90
Brightness: * * 50
Colour: 50
Hue: * *0
Sharpness: * * *0
Colour temperature * * *Neutral
Noise reduction Off
Mpeg noise reduction * *Off
Motionflow * * * Off
Film-mode * * * Auto 1
Black corrector Off
Adv. Contrast Enhancer *Off
Gamma * +1
Auto Light Limiter * * *Off
Clear White * * Off
Live Colour * * Off
R Gain *0
G Gain *-7
B Gain *-4
R Bias *0
G Bias *0
B Bias *0
Light Sensor * *Off

PS3 calibration settings

Output - YCbCr
RGB - Limited
Super White - On

I will post pictures from the set up. Since these settings however I did move the colour temp to Neutral rather than warm 2 as I originally had it. I will run the Sony setup tho just to see if I can get it any better.

Thank you for this thread!!!!!

Hello all,guys I need some help I have a LG 32 LH20 LCD TV and I am having trouble calibrating my TV settings for the PS3 it seems as I get it right in prolouge it looks bad in Fifa (for example).I found this on the Tweak TV website so guys is this a good calibration and or is there a better one for me ,thanks in advance to anyone appreciate it .Oh and can anyone post a video to show how Proloue should look after calibration.

Picture Modes
◦Picture Mode : Expert 1
◦Color Temperature : Warm
◦Aspect Ratio : 16:9
Picture Settings
◦Energy Saving : Off
◦Backlight : 34
◦Contrast : 85
◦Brightness : 54
◦H Sharpness : 50
◦V Sharpness : 50
◦Color : 54
◦Tint : 0
Expert Control Menu
◦Dynamic Contrast : Off
◦Noise Reduction : Off
◦Gamma : Medium
◦Black Level : Low
◦Real Cinema : On
◦Color Standard : HD
◦Color Gamut : Standard
◦Edge Enhancer : Off
◦xvYCC : Off
◦OPC : Off
◦Color Filter : Off
◦White Balance : Warm

Thanks in advance to anyone for your help.

Awesome thread.

This is the Blu-Ray calibration disc that I used. It has wielded the best results for me.

http://www.amazon.com/Spears-Munsil-High-Definition-Benchmark-Blu-ray/dp/B001UM29OC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1291962602&sr=8-1

sems4arsenal

Hello all,guys I need some help I have a LG 32 LH20 LCD TV and I am having trouble calibrating my TV settings for the PS3 it seems as I get it right in prolouge it looks bad in Fifa (for example).I found this on the Tweak TV website so guys is this a good calibration and or is there a better one for me ,thanks in advance to anyone appreciate it .Oh and can anyone post a video to show how Proloue should look after calibration.

Picture Modes
◦Picture Mode : Expert 1
◦Color Temperature : Warm
◦Aspect Ratio : 16:9
Picture Settings
◦Energy Saving : Off
◦Backlight : 34
◦Contrast : 85
◦Brightness : 54
◦H Sharpness : 50
◦V Sharpness : 50
◦Color : 54
◦Tint : 0
Expert Control Menu
◦Dynamic Contrast : Off
◦Noise Reduction : Off
◦Gamma : Medium
◦Black Level : Low
◦Real Cinema : On
◦Color Standard : HD
◦Color Gamut : Standard
◦Edge Enhancer : Off
◦xvYCC : Off
◦OPC : Off
◦Color Filter : Off
◦White Balance : Warm

Thanks in advance to anyone for your help.

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Dont calibrate based on computer games, they dont use strict colour calibrations and just make the games to what ever colour standard they like so one game will look bad compared to another. best thing to do is calibrate it based on movies as they have a very strict calibration policy.

Hey thanks for that but should I turn the Deep Colour Output (HDMI) On or Off? Thanks in advance!

Off, sorry, I wrote this thread before Sony added Deep Colour Output hence why there is no mention of it in my write up.

Just found this. I'd seen it up there but could never be bothered to look.

I've got a couple of test discs that throw this kind of stuff on the screen, and I've also always Googled around to find how to get into the super-menus of my TVs, the stuff you get to with some secret sequence on the remote.

The original post shows a very dramatic difference, very impressive.

I just wanted to say that when you do this stuff, don't be discouraged if you don't like the result, especially if you do it on a set you've had for a while and gotten used to. Most sets default to WAY too much color and WAY too much contrast. Give it a while after you've gone through the settings.

Also, some of those test discs will come with a blue filter. You use that to block some of the color bars in the color test pattern to correctly set color and tint levels. Original poster's work concentrated on black level and white level, and you see what a difference that made. Correct color levels fine tunes the image even more.

Also, remember you're setting it up for media playback. The off-air picture is gonna be completely beyond your control, and may be hideous after this is done. Who knows what your local station has done to it?

So here we go, now these settings are to my own taste and also my own ambient lighting. These are a bit different to the ones I stated last time but this is after a while of tweaking ect. It's for a Sony Bravia KDL46HX803 3D Side light LED TV.

Standard settings
Picture Mode: Cinema
Backlight: 4
Contrast: 77
Brightness: 51
Colour: 50
Hue: 0
Colour Temp: neutral
Sharpness: min/off
Noise Reduction: off
MPEG noise reduction: off
Motionflow: Standard
Film Mode Auto 1

Advanced Settings
Black Corrector: off
Adv. Contrast enhancer: off
Gamma: 0
LED dynamic control: standard
Auto Light dimmer: off
Clear White: off
Live colour: off

White Balance
R gain: 0
G gain: -7
B gain: -4
R bias: 0
G bias: 0
B bias: 0

Pressing home button (on TV remote not a ps3 pad) and going to - Settings/Display/video imput settings/RGB Dynamic Range - I have this on limited.

Pressing home button (on TV remote not a ps3 pad) and going to - settings/system settings/Eco/power saving - I have this set to off.

Under the display settings on the PS3 I have:

Cross colour reduction filter: off
RGB full range: limited
Y Pb/Cb Pr/Cr super-White: on
Deep Colour output: Auto

Lion-Face, great write up. Depending on how obsessively geeky you want to get, there's a lot that can be done to improve your picture. The good news is that a lot of nicer TVs are coming off the line with a decent calibration. Some are so good that you can take them home, plug them in, and choose to the "home" mode during initial setup and wind up with a neutral, proper image. Still, it's a good idea to verify and at least use a DVD and some filters.

At the AVS Forums there's a wealth of great info. I've learned a lot there. I strongly encourage the home theater geeks here to head to the AVS HD 709 topic at AVS. You can download free, comprehensive test patterns. I recommend burning the AVCHD version to a DVD, as it works really well with the PS3. At least on my PS3, the MP4 patterns only play back in RGB mode. The DVD plays back in the component color space, which is used by Blu-ray movies, TV, most video content. If your TV has a "blue mode" all you need is this free disc. Otherwise you can get some cheap THX blue filter glasses here.

If this still isn't obsessive enough for you and you're as big a nerd as me, you may own, or plan to purchase a colorimeter like the i1 Display 2, which is a nice, affordable option. Pair that with a Windows laptop running the free ColorHCFR software, and you can (painstakingly) measure the performance of your TV and use the advanced controls to dial in a great picture. It's a lot of reading, a lot of learning, and a lot of work, but it made a really dramatic difference with my projector. You can also use it to calibrate your Mac or PC, and that's actually quite easy. It makes me wish home theater gear had programmable lookup tables.

Again, this last option is not for the faint if heart, but if you're still undaunted, here's a great tutorial: Greyscale and Colour Calibration for Dummies

Bumping an old thread i know but.........lol.

I see a lot of people setting RGB to limited, yet going by my eyes, the RGB Full setting looks so much better. That and Super White on works great for me.

After i calibrated my TV using the Spears and Munsil BD, i notice that although everything seems more natural going by the videos on the disc, but when i go play a game its really dark and just dull.

I know my eyes may need to adjust, but am i missing something here??.

Thanks

AA

Thank you for this thread.

At the moment I'm using your settings and followed the suggestions on settings.I don't have a Sony BD to run tests,but from using your settings it's a night and day difference.

The picture does seem a bit darker than my other settings,but once i'm in a place with great detail you can tell the difference between every bit on the screen.

I also tested out Forza 4 with these settings and with my settings when the sun hit the road there was such a glare you couldn't see the road.Now the Sun blends in nicely and the glare looks as a normal glare would look.

I can't wait to get a Sony BD to test this further,but at the moment i'm enjoying these new setting a lot. 👍

AngloAmerican

Bumping an old thread i know but.........lol.

I see a lot of people setting RGB to limited, yet going by my eyes, the RGB Full setting looks so much better. That and Super White on works great for me.

After i calibrated my TV using the Spears and Munsil BD, i notice that although everything seems more natural going by the videos on the disc, but when i go play a game its really dark and just dull.

I know my eyes may need to adjust, but am i missing something here??.

Thanks

AA

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I suppose it's what you want to look at, at the end of the day it's your tv and you are using it. As far as I understand the Limited vs Full is a difference between games use of RGB and Films use of it.

Games don't have a strict guide to using the colour space afforded by RGB unlike film so having it set to full for games is ok, but for films movies don't have that luxury so the cut off on both ends of light and dark spectrum and this is the limited RGB colour space (or REC709 color gamut) and if you force the PS3 to display full it will cause the loss of fine detail in very light areas of the image and very dark areas of the image and cause crush in these areas.

So RGB starts at 0 for the three colours up to 255 for each, RGB in games and computers, where as film starts at 16 upto 235 so forcing it to try and show the extra space crushes everything from 0 to 16 and 235 to 255 this can limit what you see.

Try watching the last few Harry Potter films which are notoriously dark, having your TV incorrectly calibrated will not show all the fine detail in these ares and sections of the film. Remember to set your TV to the same settings too otherwise you will be giving the TV the correct signal but then your TV will be undoing all your hard work.

Great write up and easy to understand steps OP!

I just need to add that newer TV's such as my Samsung accept (setting in menu called HDMI Black Level )and look better with RGB FULL and super white enabled.

To clarify, only one device should be set to output it, ie FULL RGB on PS3 and TV HDMI Black Level on Normal or PS3 on Limited and TV on HDMI Black Level on Low.

I am able to see the white contrast bars and below black levels.
If I turn it to Limited it looks very washed out and I'd have to take brightness down to 28/100 to get the black levels correct but then the colours are dull and lack "pop"!

When setting TV's to movie mode it is advisable to give it a few days so you can get used to it as it will look yellowish until you adjust to the "correct" values.

A great site for quick set up is www.hdtvtest.co.uk just search for your make and model and it will give you the settings to make your TV closer to 6500k.

My settings for Samsung LE40B650

All picture enhancements/gimmicks off!

Mode Movie
Colour Tone Warm2
Backlight 3
Contrast 93
Brightness 46
Sharpness 0
Colour 45
Tint 50/50

Optional

100hz motion plus
Custom
Blur reduction 8
Judder 0

Panasonic Viera S30 9 months old
minor burn in



Worst/weirdest of all the Yellow icon leaves a blue haze behind for a few secs after a minute or two of exposure.


Lately the gas meter from GT5 has been very much there as little darkend bar when its gone. ill get a picture soon
Ah the price you pay for a plasma.