- Select a language for the TTS:
- UK English Female
- UK English Male
- US English Female
- US English Male
- Australian Female
- Australian Male
- Language selected: (auto detect) - EN
Play all audios:
This little-known trick makes blacks blacker and colors richer. It also it gets rid of the washed-out look some entry-level TVs have. Another approach, especially if you watch a lot of TV
during the day and have a lot of light coming through the windows that you can't control, is to pump up the brightness on your TV a great deal. Sometimes new TVs are set to deliver high
brightness by default, which is how the big box stores tend to have them, but you can tweak this easily in the television's settings. CALIBRATION COUNTS Rather than spending a couple
hundred dollars to have someone properly set up your television for you, many Disney, LucasFilm and Pixar discs have a bundled calibration tool called THX Optimizer. It can be found in the
SPECIAL FEATURES or SET UP area of the disc. A free app, THX Tune-Up, also is available for Android on Google Play and iOS in the Apple App Store. If you're using a disc, simply follow
along with the prompts using your DVD/Blu-ray remote, and let the wizard calibrate your home theater's video and audio settings. The latter relates to your audio-video receiver and
surround sound speaker setup. The test will take you through contrast, brightness, color, tint, aspect ratio (4:3 and 16:9), speaker assignment, speaker phase and subwoofer crossover.
DISABLING THE ‘SOAP OPERA’ EFFECT One more thing you might want to change is often referred to as the soap-opera effect. While your high-definition or 4K picture certainly looks sharp, you
might see something a bit odd about the image. You can't quite put your finger on it, but that TV show or blockbuster movie you're watching almost looks like it was shot with a
cheap camcorder instead of high-end video camera. You're certain _Grey's Anatomy_ wasn't filmed on the same set as _The Young and the Restless_ though it appears to be so! The
soap-opera effect is really called “motion smoothing” or “motion interpolation,” designed to decrease motion blur and make movements seem smoother and more lifelike. Your new TV might see
low frame-rate source material and try to fill in the gaps between frames with additional ones the TV generates, to help smooth out fast motion. If you're not a fan, enter the SETTINGS
menu on your television to turn off the feature or least adjust its intensity.
