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Richard Asked:
I have just bought an HD LCD TV and was wondering what are the correct settings to get the optimum picture quality out of it, i.e. brightness, contrast, colour, etc.
We Replied:
Here are some general guidelines:
Lighting - Start of with the minimum of artificial and natural light, turn of the lights and close your curtains.
Temperature - if you have this option set to 'cool' before adjusting other settings to give you a brighter picture.
Brightness - start with this right down and gradually increase it until you can see the detail in darker scenes/programmes. Don’t increase it too far else the picture will become so bright the picture will start to 'wash out' and lose colour.
Contrast - use the opposite way to brightness, start with this setting at maximum and gradually reduce it until you can just start to see fine details in areas of a similar colour.
Color - turn this all the way down and slowly increase until colours become rich and detailed but not too saturated. Adjust so skin looks natural, not too grey and not too red for example.
Sharpness - this requires attention to detail; start low and increase until edges of video start to become jagged, then reduce a little to remove adjusting to your taste.
Tint - normally you would want to avoid these colour settings unless you feel your display is not showing a certain colour properly, then use can use this setting to fine tune that colour.
I hope this helps and enjoy your new television!
Sandra Asked:
I have a Pioneer 4270XD which appears to be suffering from image burn, i.e. the Sky News logo is apparent on any channel/DVD we watch.
Is there a cure for this or are we stuck with it?
Any advice or help is appreciated.
We Replied:
If it's just image retention rather than screen burn you can make that go away by turning the panel off for a while to let it settle down.
If you've been watching Sky News for weeks its more likely to be burn rather than image retention and so less easy to get rid off. I'm sorry to say don't get your hopes up too much.
That said you can try this flashing screen exerciser if you have lead to hook you screen up to your computer and leave that going for quite a while and see if that restores the pixels back in to life. It might improve things a bit:
http://www.jscreenfix.com/basic.php
If its really bad and won't go away there's some info on contacting Pioneer about it here:
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=276470
I hope its not too bad and you see some improvement, good luck!About
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