A brand-new TV will usually be set to the Standard, Vivid, Bright, or a similar mode — this is usually the default mode, and it might even look pretty good at first glance with the brightness or sharpness turned up. However, these are not the best settings if you’re trying to improve the image quality.
Although it’s underrated, primarily because of a lack of awareness of what it does, the Cinema, Movie, or Filmmaker mode is what’s going to produce the best television-viewing experience. These modes are specifically designed to replicate the video the way the filmmaker or content creator intended it to look, making for a more authentic viewing experience.
Typically, using this mode will warm up the temperature so the colors are not too cool, reduce edge enhancement to enhance the overall picture quality, and adjust the Gamma to make the contrast more realistic.
These adjustments will ensure that you’re able to view more detail and less noise without having to tweak specific settings. So, if you don’t want to dive too deep into adjusting specific features on your TV, changing the mode from default to cinema will do much of the work for you. But if you would like to tweak individual settings to fine-tune the picture quality to your liking, we’ll explain what settings to adjust below.
