Has anyone found good picture settings for this TV? I didn't really like the ones that I found on Home Theater Mag. Thanks in advance.
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Has anyone found good picture settings for this TV? I didn't really like the ones that I found on Home Theater Mag. Thanks in advance.
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now mine is the 46, but i would think the menu is pretty close to identical. And I'm not a scientific person. I would call my approach one of successive approximations.
My set has about seven different settings. pc, standard, movie1, movie2, sports, game and autoview, ... and again these settings are repeated for each input type.
I first went thru and set all the sound settings on all these picture modes (for all inputs) to the identical settings that i found i like the best for sound. That way, when you change picture modes you won't have the confusion of the sound changing wildly from one or another of the picture settings.
Now that that's done i went and set the picture settings in order from dim to bright, so that a move thru the menu (in picture setting order), brought me the results from dim to bright. I kept pc as the dimmest, I can use that one for when i really don't want much of a picture at all, just enough to see whats going on. Maybe for listening to music like pandora. anyway the pc settings are really dim. backlight 25, contrast 40, brightness -30. I do use the pc with my tv and those settings make for a good desktop brightness. Until i want to do something like look at photoshop pics or something, then i choose anything above pc.
Movie1 backlight 30, contrast 90, brightness 0. movie2 backlight33, contrast 50, brightness +6. that leaves autoview with everything centered and standard as 50,75,+30. and game and sports are even brighter. I watch movies, and generally just tweak the movie settings for slight differences that would only depend on the movie of the moment.
Once you change inputs, you'll have to do this again for a new input, like composite video from a vhs tape player, or component from a dvd. My main movies are on the blu ray player. After a few go arounds with inputs, you can get MOST of the picture settings established at settings like those above.
As a last step, then I adjust ( from dim to bright) by choosing the appropriate name of the picture setting, and then make small adjustments to the setting that is closest by tweaking (just for that media on the given input). So i am slowly honing in on a favorite set of picture settings from different inputs, and different media on those inputs.
The macro view is still going to remain -- dim to bright -- inspite of all my small changes.
Maybe after owning the set for a while you can report back here what settings you have honed in on for the various inputs that you have been using with your wx800u. See, not very scientific, huh?
Wow, thank you very much for your detailed response! I really appreciate it. I'll play around with the settings to see what I can come up with. One thing that I've already found that I like is watching all of my 3D movies in Sports mode. I find that the extra brightness of Sports mode really makes 3D pop.