Two TV settings you should change right now

I don't know if I'm just realizing it or if this has been going on for a while, but many of you in the comments section ask me why I do some of the things I do when setting up a TV. You have questions and today I am going to answer them, welcome everyone. I'm Caleb Dennison and there's no way I can answer all of his questions in one video, but what I can do is talk about why I insist on using a certain image. Settings When I set up and check a TV, why do I turn off motion smoothing?

What is the soap opera effect? Why do I always choose Movie or Cinema mode and what's so good about the warm color temperature? I'm going to answer all of that and in the process give you a little insight into the methods of my madness before I get to that, although I did want to know if you'd be interested in a behind-the-scenes look at how I test and review TVs if that sounds like something you'd like see. Look, let me know in the comments and while you're there, like and subscribe because I need your help to grow this channel and as always, we have shopping links to the products you see on your screen in the description, if you wish.

I'd like to support us in that way Danke Schoen, let's do this, so let's start with why I always choose the Custom Cinema or ISF picture modes instead of the standard, Vivid or Sports modes. The first reason is color temperature, those picture modes I just mentioned normally, but no. always and this is getting kind of weird this year, they usually have a warm color temperature by default, why am I so in love with warm color temperature? Well, it's not so much that I'm in love with her, it's about precision. and by precision I mean that what I need to achieve is a white point of d65 now on the technical side, which means we are looking for a white color temperature of about 6504 Kelvin.

You're probably familiar with the color temperature of light bulbs,

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? You go to the light bulb section of your favorite hardware store and you'll find lights labeled as cool, warm, or daylight. What we want from a television is for it to emit white light with a very specific set of coordinates in a color table. Why? Standards. Basically, when broadcast television was making its transition to color, a series of standards were developed around color spaces and in the standard we refer to as Rex 709, which was developed around the first high definition televisions , the color space is described very specifically and it all depends on that white.

The point I just made is that movies and TV shows are created with this standard in mind, so when I talk about accuracy I could also be talking about authenticity or reproducing the Creator's intention anyway, when I go into To tune the color of a television, you may have to reduce something. blue or turn up a little red to get to d65, but once I get there the rest of the colors

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be as accurate as possible and from there I can tell how well a TV is performing. Now, you might like the standard. mode because it feels more vivid or exciting and that's fine if you prefer that look, that's fine, but to level the playing field and determine accuracy, as well as to see something as it was made, we have to go with that.

A warmer color temperature is also easier on the eyes in the long run, which is a nice bonus. The other reason I choose a cinema film or a custom preset image is that they usually again and they don't always turn off a lot of superfluous processing that I don't want to do again, it's about leveling the playing field. These presets are really just a solid starting point, so I have less work to do turning things off in a wide selection of menus and subsections. Unfortunately these days it is becoming less and less likely that motion smoothing such as motion interpolation frame doubling or black frame insertion will also be disabled and I need to disable them.

Well, let's start with the basics and then I'll explain what's going on under the hood. I hate the soap opera effect, not now I don't know who coined this term or why Tom Cruise complained about it in a video. This is sometimes known as the soap opera effect. We've been using this term since motion smoothing became common on TVs. The short explanation is that when you take a 24 frames per second signal like you would get in a movie and increase the frames per second up to 30 FPS or even 60 or 120 FPS, you are basically removing that cinematic aspect and making it look like a television video . or like a soap opera, you may have noticed that these daytime television dramas, which your grandmother also refers to as my stories, have a strangely bland, unnatural aspect, when that aspect is applied to everything you watch, it becomes Known as the soap opera effect.

So why is it on by default on so many TVs today? LCD screens are not great at resolving fast motion, there is a lot of blur involved and that is not desirable for all types of content, especially sports, so the idea was to turn on motion smoothing to help get rid of that blur unfortunately that blur It's part of what makes movies look like movies you might remember when Peter Jackson shot The Hobbit at 48 frames per second and it created a bit of a stir a lot of people really didn't like the look and This is partly because we've been watching movies the same way for a long time and it can be jarring.

Also, motion smoothing tends to remove a lot of dimension from an image, it just looks flat and I hate it, it's not fun, so no. motion smoothing for me, but how does motion smoothing actually work on the TV? Basically, the TV is interpolating and inserting new frames between existing frames, digitally guessing an image that may come between one image of a fast-moving object and the next, and then injecting it to get less blur, which is a type of movement that softens another, is called black frame insertion, also known as BFI. Now BFI works the way it sounds.

Insert a black frame between the actual image frames. It can be useful when we are running 60 frames per second content on a 120 hertz panel. The idea is to mimic the flickering you would get from a CRT TV, which is necessary for your eyes to perceive fluid movement. I know it sounds crazy, why would you want to insert non-images between real images to get smooth motion, frankly it all depends on how our eyes work. The downside of BFI is that it darkens the image, which makes sense since you are cutting the amount of light in half in most cases, so BFI makes for smooth motion but a much darker image and that not good in the era of HDR, where b

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ness counts.

Now some TV manufacturers are using super powerful processors that keep only part of the image active in those black frames, keeping the lights bright, for example, and so on. It helps reduce image darkening, but there will always be some darkening at the end of the day. I need a level playing field that adheres to standards, whether it's color standards or target frames per second. I want authenticity, accuracy and predictability, so I follow these

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. I get everything I can and the end result for you, my friends, is a better TV review. Thanks, as always, for watching everyone and congratulations on reaching the end of this video, if you're still here, tell me if you hate the soap opera effect as much as I do by naming your favorite soap opera in the comments.

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