What are the best picture settings for a toshiba regza 40xf355db lcd tv, pls help?

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What are the best picture settings for a toshiba regza 40xf355db lcd tv, pls help?

Answer 1

This is like asking "what volume should my car radio be set to".

The settings are there because your TV is slightly different from the next, and your CATV box produces different signals than my xBox, yet we both feed into the "Component 1" inputs.

A setup DVD like "Sound and Vision" setup disk, "Avia" or "Digital Video Essentials" have tutorials and test patterns and instruct you how to adjust the basic brightness, contrast, color balance.

This will work for your DVD player - but not the other sources.  But going through the lessons will show you what things should look like, and you can then switch over to your other inputs and roughly adjust things to match.

IN GENERAL:

Televisions are set at the factory to 'torch' mode/super bright & high contrast.  This way the television will stand out on a showroom floor if this unit is used for a display.

Turn down the brightness and contrast to 70% of full range on a new TV to protect it. This will at least get rid of red-bloom, give you black instead of grey and reduce over-saturated whites.

Answer 2

play with the settings to suite you , what you see as a good picture may be rubbish to someone else.

try changing the factory defaults settings until its what you like

first have you sky or normal ariel with freeview?

normal Sky - if you have go into settings menu and under picture settings set the output to RGB this is "sharper"

to set my tv up from new set i set up the "normal"  picture using Dr Who as the normal non HD picture is really clear with good colour.

next is HDMI from DVD , play back a film and change to suit its worth it.  

have fun