# Just got a new 1050 LCD TV & ......

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 29, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-new-1050-lcd-tv/587213 "2011-06-29T00:40:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ec9cab/32.png) [@Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnipeg)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-new-1050-lcd-tv/587213/1 "2011-06-29T00:40:08Z")

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it makes most of the lighting in the shows, just look like crap. I can see the reflections of the lighting, on people and things, and it just looks so false in all it’s sharpness.

Am I alone in being disappointed in “upgrading” from 1998 widescreen projection TV to 2011 HDMI???

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-new-1050-lcd-tv/587213/2 "2011-06-29T03:34:09Z")

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You need to take the TV out of what’s affectionately called “torch mode”

If you do a bit of googling on your TV’s model number and terms like calibration or setup, you’ll probably find some tips on taming the thing.

Failing that, go into the menus and look for picture modes and try anything along the lines of “Standard,” “Natural” or “Movie” and you’ll probably find instant relief as the default mode on most TVs is “Vivid” with the sharpening cranked up way too high, the color saturation maxed out and brigntess/contrast also at some insane level.

One of the first setup bits I do with any TV is to actually turn the sharpening and noise reduction off entirely, color temperature to “normal” or “6500k” and brightness/contrast/color level to their midpoints. Just take mental (or written) notes of where things were in case this makes the picture look worse.

You may need to do this for each input - some TVs let you tweak settings to suit the source as you probably want “vivid” settings with a game console, natural as possible for your Blu-Ray player, and somewhere in between for day-to-day plain ol’ TV watching.

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**Author:** ![Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ec9cab/32.png) [@Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnipeg)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-new-1050-lcd-tv/587213/3 "2011-06-29T23:50:07Z")

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Thanks, that’s made it much better, you are a champion. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-new-1050-lcd-tv/587213/4 "2011-06-30T21:24:02Z")

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1050? I’d ask the salesman for the extra 30p he owes me. :-p

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-a-new-1050-lcd-tv/587213/5 "2011-07-01T01:28:10Z")

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> [@Flander](#):
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> 1050? I’d ask the salesman for the extra 30p he owes me. :-p

I wondered about that, but my computer monitor is 1050, so thought maybe that was a variation.