"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enon today's episode of you asked can certain videos on YouTube actually help fix Burnin on your OLED TV or could they make things worse we'll revisit the best TVs for watching sports talk about how to record and watch sports if you've got a dumb TV in a spare room and a quick run through on the best picture settings for your new TV welcome back everyone I'm Caleb Dennison and this is you asked the show where I answer questions that you asked in hopes that I can help you and others with similar Tech questions if you've got a question for me please email it to you asked digitaltrends.com and we'll see if your question gets picked to be answered on the show first question comes in from jkb who writes my LG OLED 55 C8 started to show burn in just as the warranty ran out figures the extended warranty sold by Costco didn't help all state blamed me for misusing the TV we never adjusted the TV it just looked great right out of the box and we left it there yellow is the worst but red green blue and white all show The Shadow to some extent I just saw this video he references a YouTube clip I did not watch it past the instructions and I'm skeptical about this video's ability to do any good and I'm concerned that it may further damaged my screen which is still useful albeit somewhat annoying what say you what say I is that there's actually a lot to unpack here first though let me say that I'm sorry that you're having trouble there is perhaps nothing more frustrating and disheartening than going to seek help and being told that the trouble is your fault I mean sometimes we are responsible even though we didn't know we were doing anything but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with second I'm not sure that what I see in your picture here is actually burning there is definitely an issue here you shouldn't be seeing that discoloration that's not how this TV is supposed to look but what I'm noticing is that the discoloration doesn't seem to have a discernable pattern to it typically Burnin has at least a recognizable shape to it it tends to be localized and in extreme examples you can clearly make out characters or specific shapes like the fox in Fox News or CNN or even The Weather Channel logo furthermore it's pretty rare to see Burnin at the center of the screen the kind of objects displayed on an OLED that cause Burnin are typically toward the edges of the TV what I see in this photo is sort of an amorphous blob right in the center and I'm struggling to imagine what kind of programming could cause it to a be in the center and B have no real identifiable shape I mean honestly what it looks like is that the TV took some kind of impact toward the center and the pixels have sustained some damage but even that scenario seems suspect to me because it would take a big object to cause that kind of damage I'd still expect to see more significant damage at the point of impact and maybe some cursory damage around it anyway there's no Smoking Gun here that points to burning those pixels are however clearly worn out for some reason now as for the YouTube video that you linked to that video is not going to do further damage all it does is provide a uniform workout for the OLED pixels shifting through colors at various brightness intensities it's not going to make anything worse anymore than just watching regular content I am not however super optimistic that it's going to help either but since there's little to no risk involved you might as well try I will say though for whatever it's worth that warranty or Insurance claim adjusters really don't have any to point to here suggesting that you abused the TV and while I'm sure they would disagree I do feel it's incumbent upon them to prove that you don't have a rightful claim as far as I'm concerned they don't have that proof it's pure speculation I don't know if that's going to help you get what you want but perhaps it may give you some peace of mind at least David writes in noting that football season is upon us and thus so too is the annual battle with others in his family for the living room TV he's got an old not smart Philips 50-in TV in another room that he's happy to go watch the games on but he'd like to be able to record over theair games and watch them later he recalls an Amazon device that would work with a Fire TV stick for recording and Playback and wonders if there's something else out there that would work like that yes David as a matter of fact I have just the thing now this device comes from a previous sponsor but I have always personally recommended this product just to be clear this is not a sponsored placement this is my personal recommendation to you I would get a tableau DVR and then some inexpensive smart set top box or streaming dongle take your pick Apple TV Roku box or stick Amazon Fire TV box or stick whatever you like tablo's app works on most of the major platforms what you do is connect an antenna to this Tableau box and then that box connects to your Wi-Fi and you can tune into anything over the air and watch it live or you can record and watch later you can even record two different stations at once or watch one and record Another and it doesn't just record over the a stuff you can record programming on free ad supported TV or fast channels as well also you can watch the content that you record on any phone tablet or TV that has access to the Tableau app from anywhere all you need is an internet connection since you're streaming it and by the way there's no subscription involved just buy the hardware and enjoy Stu writes football season is here and I'm sure there are a lot of people like me that are most concerned with how their TVs look for sporting events I know you've mentioned issues before with motion and compression Etc when it comes to sports on TV but what are a couple of TVs you would recommend if sporting events especially American football were the main reasons one was buying the TV maybe a top-end model a middle Range model and a budget buy for you know bedrooms or an extra room okay so in full transparency I picked this question to answer because Stu is right it is football season and this is a very relevant topic with broad implications but also because it's a good example of the kind of question that I've attempted to answer in a dedicated video that I've already made so if you have a question that you want my help with my suggestion is for you to First do a quick Google search or you know pick whatever search engine you prefer but in this case that search might look like Digital Trends best TV for sports do that and this video will pop up I kindly request that you watch that video and if after watching it you still have questions send those questions in for you asked consideration now because of how search engines and video typ titles and metadata work if I've answered a question within this video series specifically you asked it may not pop up but if it is a popular enough question hopefully I've already made a video on it and if I haven't well I'll see that question a lot and I'll try to make a full video on it which leads me nicely into this next topic regarding a batch of questions I've seen come in recently about picture settings here are a couple of recent examples Mike wrote I have a Vio 75 in TV and was wondering what are the calibration settings for it or do you have a website that I could go to for those and then Kevin writes I took your advice and picked up the new 98 in TCL qm 851 G I was wondering if you by chance offered up your settings to get the most out of the TV thanks in advance for your help sincerely Kevin okay guys so in a few minutes here I'm going to show you exactly what I do to every TV that comes in for a review they are steps that anyone can follow and the results will almost always provide a better picture than what you'll get if you do nothing at all and it's a great jumping off point if you want to really dig in and fine-tune your TV first though I want to clarify a few things and explain why I will never publish calibration settings for folks to replicate at home and for those of you who have heard this before well I think it Bears repeating for those who have not please understand this display or TV calibration by its definition requires two things a Target and the means to measure your efforts toward hitting that Target in order to calibrate a TV you well you need to know what you're doing for sure but you must have a measurement device like a Colorimeter Andor a spectr photometer you need a pattern generator or pattern source and software that can take the readings from your Colorimeter or spect and plot them on a graph relative to your target most folks don't have the knowhow or the expensive equipment to calibrate a TV hence the existence of the display calibration profession folks I'm really not trying to be pedantic here I'm drawing that distinction because well out of respect for calibrators but also to clarify that anyone who publishes calibration settings uh without actually using measurement equipment to get them or comes out to your house with a disc and maybe some blue filter glasses they're not providing a calibration now to be clear it is possible to make a TV look great without performing a calibration but there is a point at which you must stop messing around with things because you run the risk of doing more harm than good and I mention that because that point at which you should stop adjusting settings is at the white balance gray scale and color calibration area I will not publish actual calibration settings for any of those points because every TV is different so what I do to a review sample here is not what should be done for your TV for those adjustments you have to measure adjust measure again rinse and repeat until you have reached your target a lot of folks don't know that once you start changing those deeper settings you make one adjustment here and it impacts another adjustment over here it's a complicated dance calibrating is which is why it takes hours not minutes to perform now with those clarifications made for posterity out of the way I understand that what most folks want is just some help getting the best picture they can out of their TV using resources they do have at their disposal So to that end let me guide you through what I do with every TV that comes in for review and for any friend or family member who wants my help if I come over to visit this is what I do if I came to your house with nothing but your remote control in hand so you can definitely do it too okay so we have the LG C4 OLED TV here and I've done nothing to this TV yet you'll get to see me do this in real time now every TV has a different menu system and each platform calls different settings different things but I'll help you out with decoding that along the way best as I can and hey if you want me to do this for every every TV brand give this video a like and drop a comment telling me so right now and I'll do it if the interest is high enough okay so the first thing I recommend doing is finding the ECO mode and turning it off I know we all want to do our part to reduce energy consumption and I'm all for that but this is about getting the best from the TV and the Eco Mode on most TVs caps the TV's performance significantly so I have to start by turning this feature off now again every TV is going to be different you're going to have to do some hunting here uh so let's see where we have to go in this lgtv sometimes it can be as simple as changing the picture mode or picture preset but what I want to do here is look for an Eco setting submenu a sort of Master Eco setting that we can turn off because even if we change the picture mode away from the Eco picture mode there may still be some other settings in the background limiting the TV's performance okay so this LGT is a great example of that we can switch out of auto power save as a picture preset but that other eco mode would still be going so glad we turned that off okay now we want to select a picture preset that right there is going to make the biggest difference in the world I'm always going to recommend something like Cinema or movie or even filmmaker mode the reason I suggest these particular presets as opposed to standard or Vivid or Sports is because they correct the color temperature temperature to the slightly warmer setting something that's close to what we call d65 you don't have to have it that way if you don't want to you can always change the color temperature later but the other benefit of going to one of these modes is that it's going to turn off motion smoothing which is something else that I recommend uh for this one I'm going to go ahead and go with Cinema because that's a good example of a time when motion smoothing may not be turned off by default once we select a picture mode that is not standard or Vivid I want to check and see if uh motion smoothing is turned on in an lgtv that'll be under Clarity sometimes you'll see this menu as motion it can be any number of different things here I see that real Cinema is on um this is a particular setting for LG TVs that aids in uh you know good 24p production um but true motion is set to cinematic movement and I don't want that on so I'm going to go ahead and turn that off in this particular case now on other TVs you may have the option to adjust D jutter and D blur you can play around with those uh to get a picture that you like motion that you like uh but a good starting point is just to turn them off entirely now often the movie mode or or Cinema or a definitely filmmaker mode is going to be too dark in uh SDR so your cable satellite uh uh that kind of programming any of the free TV streaming stuff that you look at may end up being too dark so if you do find the picture to look a little dark for that SDR content you can go into the brightness settings and turn up the brightness now if you have an OLED TV it might say OLED pixel brightness or it might say uh OLED brightness something like that with many LED TVs it may refer to the LED backlight system uh try to avoid adjusting the brightness setting uh and instead focus on the backlight or the OLED pixel brightness now earlier I mentioned that some folks are not going to enjoy the warmer color temperature and if you count yourself in that camp you can go into the color settings and search for color temperature settings in this LG there's a dedicated color temperature uh setting and it actually gives you a slider to adjust other TVs like TCL and high sense will give you three or four different options in this particular case I'd probably uh just click around maybe reduce this down to zero and see if that cooler color temperature suits my eyes uh maybe that's a little bit too far in the blue Direction and so I might try and pick a happy medium but you're basically going to want to adjust this to taste it's more important that you understand what it does as you go to a cooler color temperature you're going to jack up the blue in the whites uh it has a crisper look it tends to look brighter because of the way blue wavelengths work um technically it's not accurate but we're not going for accuracy here we're going for something that you like now here's the trick we have just adjusted things for SDR on this TV and we can apply it to all inputs and I'm going to go ahead and do that now how ever however uh not all TVs will apply the settings to every input or even to all the different apps and so it's entirely possible you may need to go into the apps that you watch and go into the HDMI inputs that you use and repeat this process and that's just for SDR now we need to deal with HDR so for me the easiest thing to do for adjusting HDR is to go into YouTube and pick an HDR video I've got One queued up here we get that started I'll go ahead and press pause on that and then I'll go into the picture settings because now we're going to need to adjust the HDR picture mode as we see here it's in auto power save again so once again we go into settings into picture we want to look at our picture presets it's still in auto power save so I can choose cinema cinema home is going to be a little bit brighter a little bit cooler color temperature filmmaker mode is going to be very very strict to adhering to the Creator's intent uh often that is not what the preference is from the user uh so for this I'll probably just go Cinema and then from there you really don't need to mess with the brightness because the brightness will already be maxed out uh that being the case you can adjust color temperature if you want as we did in SDR or you can double check to make sure that motion smoothing is either not turned on at all or set to the level that you prefer the thing about the cinema movie or uh filmmaker modes is that usually your motion smoothing is turned off that's just not always the case so you definitely want to double check and again that's going to suit HDR for YouTube go to another app and pull up some HDR content and see if you need to make those same adjustments again same goes for your HDMI inputs and finally we need to deal with settings for Dolby Vision a lot of these streaming services do Dolby vision for their HDR so just as we used YouTube HDR videos to get our HDR settings we're going to use Dolby Vision uh in this case on Netflix you could also use Disney Plus or HBO max if you subscribe to it tier that offers them start playing the content so that the TV actually goes into Dolby Vision there we go we see the Dolby Vision logo up in the upper right I'm going to go ahead and pause and go into picture settings and lucky for me it's it's intuited that since I selected Cinema home for HDR I might want something similar for Dolby Vision that's not always going to be the case that's why you definitely need to double check here I have the option between Cinema home and filmmaker mode now a lot of TVs offer a Dolby Vision dark or a Dolby Vision bright uh if that's the case understand that Dolby Vision bright will be a bit brighter it's also going to have motion smoothing turned on so you'll want to go in and turn off the motion smoothing if you don't want it otherwise you don't need to mess with the brightness at all because the brightness will be maxed out for HDR and once again if you want to adjust the color temperature feel free to go in and do that to your preference okay so quick recap you'll need to do picture settings for SDR HDR and Dolby vision and in order to do that you'll need to pull up SDR HDR and Dolby Vision content either off of a Blu-ray disc or a streaming app your cable or Apple TV whatever it is make sure you're looking at that content type you may have to do this a few times for different HDMI inputs or different apps that's up to the TV and you'll need to do some investigation to find out whether the picture settings you're making carry over to other apps and other HDMI inputs or if you're going to have a long haul ahead of you and do a lot of work once you go into that particular content type I suggest using the movie cinema Pro or filmmaker mode as a start that's going to warm up your color temperature usually disable your uh motion interpolation or motion smoothing settings and it's going to disable a bunch of extra stuff running in the background that you probably don't want that's the easiest path toward getting most of what you want then you can make small refinements some people do not care for the warm color temperature so you may go into your color temperature settings and cool it off some people will want a brighter picture in SDR than what is provided for with those movie or Cinema modes cuz they kind of assume that you're in a dark environment you probably aren't so go ahead and turn up either the OLED pixels OLED light or mini LED or LED backlight setting try to avoid just the blanket brightness setting in order to brighten up that picture elevate that average Picture level without actually messing with the contrast sometimes turning up that brightness setting is going to mess with your black levels and you don't want that and that's it you do not want to dig into twoo white balance or 11o white balance or 20 point white balance you don't want to start messing with color coordinates that kind of thing needs to be reserved for folks who have measurement instruments to figure out what it is that they're doing and how close they're getting to a Target I hope that was was helpful guys thank you so much for watching I'm curious how many of you are gearing up for football season and looking to buy a new TV right now because you are hardcore into American football anyone else sad that summer is drawing to a close or are you all excited for fall and pumpkin spice everything leave me a comment down below please like this video just smash that thumbs up button right now subscribe for more I'll see you on the next one and until then here's two other videos I think you might like I feel like this is just way too much but that's that's thaton today's episode of you asked can certain videos on YouTube actually help fix Burnin on your OLED TV or could they make things worse we'll revisit the best TVs for watching sports talk about how to record and watch sports if you've got a dumb TV in a spare room and a quick run through on the best picture settings for your new TV welcome back everyone I'm Caleb Dennison and this is you asked the show where I answer questions that you asked in hopes that I can help you and others with similar Tech questions if you've got a question for me please email it to you asked digitaltrends.com and we'll see if your question gets picked to be answered on the show first question comes in from jkb who writes my LG OLED 55 C8 started to show burn in just as the warranty ran out figures the extended warranty sold by Costco didn't help all state blamed me for misusing the TV we never adjusted the TV it just looked great right out of the box and we left it there yellow is the worst but red green blue and white all show The Shadow to some extent I just saw this video he references a YouTube clip I did not watch it past the instructions and I'm skeptical about this video's ability to do any good and I'm concerned that it may further damaged my screen which is still useful albeit somewhat annoying what say you what say I is that there's actually a lot to unpack here first though let me say that I'm sorry that you're having trouble there is perhaps nothing more frustrating and disheartening than going to seek help and being told that the trouble is your fault I mean sometimes we are responsible even though we didn't know we were doing anything but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with second I'm not sure that what I see in your picture here is actually burning there is definitely an issue here you shouldn't be seeing that discoloration that's not how this TV is supposed to look but what I'm noticing is that the discoloration doesn't seem to have a discernable pattern to it typically Burnin has at least a recognizable shape to it it tends to be localized and in extreme examples you can clearly make out characters or specific shapes like the fox in Fox News or CNN or even The Weather Channel logo furthermore it's pretty rare to see Burnin at the center of the screen the kind of objects displayed on an OLED that cause Burnin are typically toward the edges of the TV what I see in this photo is sort of an amorphous blob right in the center and I'm struggling to imagine what kind of programming could cause it to a be in the center and B have no real identifiable shape I mean honestly what it looks like is that the TV took some kind of impact toward the center and the pixels have sustained some damage but even that scenario seems suspect to me because it would take a big object to cause that kind of damage I'd still expect to see more significant damage at the point of impact and maybe some cursory damage around it anyway there's no Smoking Gun here that points to burning those pixels are however clearly worn out for some reason now as for the YouTube video that you linked to that video is not going to do further damage all it does is provide a uniform workout for the OLED pixels shifting through colors at various brightness intensities it's not going to make anything worse anymore than just watching regular content I am not however super optimistic that it's going to help either but since there's little to no risk involved you might as well try I will say though for whatever it's worth that warranty or Insurance claim adjusters really don't have any to point to here suggesting that you abused the TV and while I'm sure they would disagree I do feel it's incumbent upon them to prove that you don't have a rightful claim as far as I'm concerned they don't have that proof it's pure speculation I don't know if that's going to help you get what you want but perhaps it may give you some peace of mind at least David writes in noting that football season is upon us and thus so too is the annual battle with others in his family for the living room TV he's got an old not smart Philips 50-in TV in another room that he's happy to go watch the games on but he'd like to be able to record over theair games and watch them later he recalls an Amazon device that would work with a Fire TV stick for recording and Playback and wonders if there's something else out there that would work like that yes David as a matter of fact I have just the thing now this device comes from a previous sponsor but I have always personally recommended this product just to be clear this is not a sponsored placement this is my personal recommendation to you I would get a tableau DVR and then some inexpensive smart set top box or streaming dongle take your pick Apple TV Roku box or stick Amazon Fire TV box or stick whatever you like tablo's app works on most of the major platforms what you do is connect an antenna to this Tableau box and then that box connects to your Wi-Fi and you can tune into anything over the air and watch it live or you can record and watch later you can even record two different stations at once or watch one and record Another and it doesn't just record over the a stuff you can record programming on free ad supported TV or fast channels as well also you can watch the content that you record on any phone tablet or TV that has access to the Tableau app from anywhere all you need is an internet connection since you're streaming it and by the way there's no subscription involved just buy the hardware and enjoy Stu writes football season is here and I'm sure there are a lot of people like me that are most concerned with how their TVs look for sporting events I know you've mentioned issues before with motion and compression Etc when it comes to sports on TV but what are a couple of TVs you would recommend if sporting events especially American football were the main reasons one was buying the TV maybe a top-end model a middle Range model and a budget buy for you know bedrooms or an extra room okay so in full transparency I picked this question to answer because Stu is right it is football season and this is a very relevant topic with broad implications but also because it's a good example of the kind of question that I've attempted to answer in a dedicated video that I've already made so if you have a question that you want my help with my suggestion is for you to First do a quick Google search or you know pick whatever search engine you prefer but in this case that search might look like Digital Trends best TV for sports do that and this video will pop up I kindly request that you watch that video and if after watching it you still have questions send those questions in for you asked consideration now because of how search engines and video typ titles and metadata work if I've answered a question within this video series specifically you asked it may not pop up but if it is a popular enough question hopefully I've already made a video on it and if I haven't well I'll see that question a lot and I'll try to make a full video on it which leads me nicely into this next topic regarding a batch of questions I've seen come in recently about picture settings here are a couple of recent examples Mike wrote I have a Vio 75 in TV and was wondering what are the calibration settings for it or do you have a website that I could go to for those and then Kevin writes I took your advice and picked up the new 98 in TCL qm 851 G I was wondering if you by chance offered up your settings to get the most out of the TV thanks in advance for your help sincerely Kevin okay guys so in a few minutes here I'm going to show you exactly what I do to every TV that comes in for a review they are steps that anyone can follow and the results will almost always provide a better picture than what you'll get if you do nothing at all and it's a great jumping off point if you want to really dig in and fine-tune your TV first though I want to clarify a few things and explain why I will never publish calibration settings for folks to replicate at home and for those of you who have heard this before well I think it Bears repeating for those who have not please understand this display or TV calibration by its definition requires two things a Target and the means to measure your efforts toward hitting that Target in order to calibrate a TV you well you need to know what you're doing for sure but you must have a measurement device like a Colorimeter Andor a spectr photometer you need a pattern generator or pattern source and software that can take the readings from your Colorimeter or spect and plot them on a graph relative to your target most folks don't have the knowhow or the expensive equipment to calibrate a TV hence the existence of the display calibration profession folks I'm really not trying to be pedantic here I'm drawing that distinction because well out of respect for calibrators but also to clarify that anyone who publishes calibration settings uh without actually using measurement equipment to get them or comes out to your house with a disc and maybe some blue filter glasses they're not providing a calibration now to be clear it is possible to make a TV look great without performing a calibration but there is a point at which you must stop messing around with things because you run the risk of doing more harm than good and I mention that because that point at which you should stop adjusting settings is at the white balance gray scale and color calibration area I will not publish actual calibration settings for any of those points because every TV is different so what I do to a review sample here is not what should be done for your TV for those adjustments you have to measure adjust measure again rinse and repeat until you have reached your target a lot of folks don't know that once you start changing those deeper settings you make one adjustment here and it impacts another adjustment over here it's a complicated dance calibrating is which is why it takes hours not minutes to perform now with those clarifications made for posterity out of the way I understand that what most folks want is just some help getting the best picture they can out of their TV using resources they do have at their disposal So to that end let me guide you through what I do with every TV that comes in for review and for any friend or family member who wants my help if I come over to visit this is what I do if I came to your house with nothing but your remote control in hand so you can definitely do it too okay so we have the LG C4 OLED TV here and I've done nothing to this TV yet you'll get to see me do this in real time now every TV has a different menu system and each platform calls different settings different things but I'll help you out with decoding that along the way best as I can and hey if you want me to do this for every every TV brand give this video a like and drop a comment telling me so right now and I'll do it if the interest is high enough okay so the first thing I recommend doing is finding the ECO mode and turning it off I know we all want to do our part to reduce energy consumption and I'm all for that but this is about getting the best from the TV and the Eco Mode on most TVs caps the TV's performance significantly so I have to start by turning this feature off now again every TV is going to be different you're going to have to do some hunting here uh so let's see where we have to go in this lgtv sometimes it can be as simple as changing the picture mode or picture preset but what I want to do here is look for an Eco setting submenu a sort of Master Eco setting that we can turn off because even if we change the picture mode away from the Eco picture mode there may still be some other settings in the background limiting the TV's performance okay so this LGT is a great example of that we can switch out of auto power save as a picture preset but that other eco mode would still be going so glad we turned that off okay now we want to select a picture preset that right there is going to make the biggest difference in the world I'm always going to recommend something like Cinema or movie or even filmmaker mode the reason I suggest these particular presets as opposed to standard or Vivid or Sports is because they correct the color temperature temperature to the slightly warmer setting something that's close to what we call d65 you don't have to have it that way if you don't want to you can always change the color temperature later but the other benefit of going to one of these modes is that it's going to turn off motion smoothing which is something else that I recommend uh for this one I'm going to go ahead and go with Cinema because that's a good example of a time when motion smoothing may not be turned off by default once we select a picture mode that is not standard or Vivid I want to check and see if uh motion smoothing is turned on in an lgtv that'll be under Clarity sometimes you'll see this menu as motion it can be any number of different things here I see that real Cinema is on um this is a particular setting for LG TVs that aids in uh you know good 24p production um but true motion is set to cinematic movement and I don't want that on so I'm going to go ahead and turn that off in this particular case now on other TVs you may have the option to adjust D jutter and D blur you can play around with those uh to get a picture that you like motion that you like uh but a good starting point is just to turn them off entirely now often the movie mode or or Cinema or a definitely filmmaker mode is going to be too dark in uh SDR so your cable satellite uh uh that kind of programming any of the free TV streaming stuff that you look at may end up being too dark so if you do find the picture to look a little dark for that SDR content you can go into the brightness settings and turn up the brightness now if you have an OLED TV it might say OLED pixel brightness or it might say uh OLED brightness something like that with many LED TVs it may refer to the LED backlight system uh try to avoid adjusting the brightness setting uh and instead focus on the backlight or the OLED pixel brightness now earlier I mentioned that some folks are not going to enjoy the warmer color temperature and if you count yourself in that camp you can go into the color settings and search for color temperature settings in this LG there's a dedicated color temperature uh setting and it actually gives you a slider to adjust other TVs like TCL and high sense will give you three or four different options in this particular case I'd probably uh just click around maybe reduce this down to zero and see if that cooler color temperature suits my eyes uh maybe that's a little bit too far in the blue Direction and so I might try and pick a happy medium but you're basically going to want to adjust this to taste it's more important that you understand what it does as you go to a cooler color temperature you're going to jack up the blue in the whites uh it has a crisper look it tends to look brighter because of the way blue wavelengths work um technically it's not accurate but we're not going for accuracy here we're going for something that you like now here's the trick we have just adjusted things for SDR on this TV and we can apply it to all inputs and I'm going to go ahead and do that now how ever however uh not all TVs will apply the settings to every input or even to all the different apps and so it's entirely possible you may need to go into the apps that you watch and go into the HDMI inputs that you use and repeat this process and that's just for SDR now we need to deal with HDR so for me the easiest thing to do for adjusting HDR is to go into YouTube and pick an HDR video I've got One queued up here we get that started I'll go ahead and press pause on that and then I'll go into the picture settings because now we're going to need to adjust the HDR picture mode as we see here it's in auto power save again so once again we go into settings into picture we want to look at our picture presets it's still in auto power save so I can choose cinema cinema home is going to be a little bit brighter a little bit cooler color temperature filmmaker mode is going to be very very strict to adhering to the Creator's intent uh often that is not what the preference is from the user uh so for this I'll probably just go Cinema and then from there you really don't need to mess with the brightness because the brightness will already be maxed out uh that being the case you can adjust color temperature if you want as we did in SDR or you can double check to make sure that motion smoothing is either not turned on at all or set to the level that you prefer the thing about the cinema movie or uh filmmaker modes is that usually your motion smoothing is turned off that's just not always the case so you definitely want to double check and again that's going to suit HDR for YouTube go to another app and pull up some HDR content and see if you need to make those same adjustments again same goes for your HDMI inputs and finally we need to deal with settings for Dolby Vision a lot of these streaming services do Dolby vision for their HDR so just as we used YouTube HDR videos to get our HDR settings we're going to use Dolby Vision uh in this case on Netflix you could also use Disney Plus or HBO max if you subscribe to it tier that offers them start playing the content so that the TV actually goes into Dolby Vision there we go we see the Dolby Vision logo up in the upper right I'm going to go ahead and pause and go into picture settings and lucky for me it's it's intuited that since I selected Cinema home for HDR I might want something similar for Dolby Vision that's not always going to be the case that's why you definitely need to double check here I have the option between Cinema home and filmmaker mode now a lot of TVs offer a Dolby Vision dark or a Dolby Vision bright uh if that's the case understand that Dolby Vision bright will be a bit brighter it's also going to have motion smoothing turned on so you'll want to go in and turn off the motion smoothing if you don't want it otherwise you don't need to mess with the brightness at all because the brightness will be maxed out for HDR and once again if you want to adjust the color temperature feel free to go in and do that to your preference okay so quick recap you'll need to do picture settings for SDR HDR and Dolby vision and in order to do that you'll need to pull up SDR HDR and Dolby Vision content either off of a Blu-ray disc or a streaming app your cable or Apple TV whatever it is make sure you're looking at that content type you may have to do this a few times for different HDMI inputs or different apps that's up to the TV and you'll need to do some investigation to find out whether the picture settings you're making carry over to other apps and other HDMI inputs or if you're going to have a long haul ahead of you and do a lot of work once you go into that particular content type I suggest using the movie cinema Pro or filmmaker mode as a start that's going to warm up your color temperature usually disable your uh motion interpolation or motion smoothing settings and it's going to disable a bunch of extra stuff running in the background that you probably don't want that's the easiest path toward getting most of what you want then you can make small refinements some people do not care for the warm color temperature so you may go into your color temperature settings and cool it off some people will want a brighter picture in SDR than what is provided for with those movie or Cinema modes cuz they kind of assume that you're in a dark environment you probably aren't so go ahead and turn up either the OLED pixels OLED light or mini LED or LED backlight setting try to avoid just the blanket brightness setting in order to brighten up that picture elevate that average Picture level without actually messing with the contrast sometimes turning up that brightness setting is going to mess with your black levels and you don't want that and that's it you do not want to dig into twoo white balance or 11o white balance or 20 point white balance you don't want to start messing with color coordinates that kind of thing needs to be reserved for folks who have measurement instruments to figure out what it is that they're doing and how close they're getting to a Target I hope that was was helpful guys thank you so much for watching I'm curious how many of you are gearing up for football season and looking to buy a new TV right now because you are hardcore into American football anyone else sad that summer is drawing 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