WARNING: This Sneaky TV Setting Will RUIN Your Picture Quality if You Don't 

You forgot to say drink less tea to make up for the energy consumption 😅

thank you, kind stranger

Thank-you

Thanks man he lost me with the clock in the beginning

Thank you very much

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Where is it on the Sony?

@@dry509 Settings, Pictures, Lightsensor, it should be off. But if its a very dark room and you sit very close, it might be to bright, but thats only if your tv can be very bright. But first time turning this off, really show what my tv was capable of doing.

@@Wilfer88 I have had ambient light sensor turned off. Guess this is moot for me.

@@dry509 Well, then you already have seen what your tv is capable off. And I guess thats better than having to rewatch every good thing you already seen. Until its time for a QD OLED or something :)

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not! XD

Considering how often stuff updates these days that is a pretty big deal since how likely are ppl to remember adjusting this convoluted setting on every single update or especially if its auto-update happened while they were away.

My Samsung has been great because I configured it from new. Common sense ideas: Watch less TV. Get a slightly smaller one which tend to use less power. Always read the manual to understand the features which form part of the purchase price.

Was that on a the frame 4k tv, I watched the expanse Blu ray the picture was very dark ?

Yeah, the darkness is what made that episode (and season) unwatchable

Darkest Season of all shows of all time

@Codebreaker In US it’s that on ABC and Fox. All others are 1080p. 240p is good enough for me on that subject

But the real question is: will the world burn-in?

@@mateusbmedeiros not if we burn the trouble makers first.

@@mateusbmedeiros 😳🤣

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This advice coming from England says a lot about the importance of film maker intention.

@@AltCutTV it certainly does. Tea is life across the pond.

Coffee is way better than tea, anyway.

Sounds like you don't understand how HDR works. This is perfectly normal. The real issue is your TV isn't a very good bright one for HDR content.

@@MixedGrid PQ isn't adaptive. so if you don't have a 10,000 nit TV, you're basically screwed. oh wait, that's everyone!

yeah, this feature is also very irritating for people like me who have dimmer light switches because you’ll see the display brightness keep changing every time you change the brightness on your dimmer switches in your room and it will be very noticeable on your display. Recommend turning Eco brightness detection as the guy says in the video

RTFM

But keep track of your eye comfort - if the brightness in your room changes dramatically, then watching a TV that's twice as bright as it needs to be is going to be much more fatiguing (not just twice). Also keep in mind that as TVs get larger, overall luminance goes up. Think of it as follows - the 55 inch has 1 light bulb, the 77 inch which is twice as large has 2 light bulbs. Essentially, if your room is dark (say 5 lux) and you crank your TV to 1,000 nits, your contrast will be 1000/5 which is 200. The torture will be so severe that eventually you will start confessing to crimes you have not committed 😀 It's what the CIA does now - they turn off the light sensor and lock you up with a super bright LED TV. They make you binge watch really bright content until you spill the beans.

"with the investment" Worth. NOT with.

Really that helped? I don’t love my A80j PQ most of the time either.. lowering the color and going to warm seems like it would make it mega dull and bland

@@alyamoney it really has helped. The image seems much more natural and feels like it’s improved in other ways not JUST the colour. I had disabled Dolby vision on my streaming devices because faces looked unnatural and almost metallic. Making the aforementioned changes means I can now have Dolby vision enabled again. Give it a try. It only takes 5 minutes and I’m sure you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Perhaps set the mode to Warm and leave you colour level where it is and start from there. I think it’s the colour mode (cool to warm) that made the biggest difference for me.

I disable motion smoothing first THEN this.

@@TheClockUpOnTheWall is there a difference?

I did this because of watching the video but my Sony TV is way too bright now at night that it even hurts my eyes. I like to watch in a very dark room must be said. But I switched it back on.

Yeah, my Sony TV is also way too bright in SDR out of the box. I really don't know why brightness is on max by default. It looks better with light sensor. And it must be healthier for the TV, too.

I also have a plasma, it was one of the first things I turned off. Most TVs per default also crop and zoom the picture, cutting off the edges and making everything blurry. Big issue on hotel TVs, sometimes you have to disconnect them from the hotel network to reset them properly.

It's the same one i got, but LED, i bought it 13 years ago from Sears, and i did what he said, went and turn off the energy saver option, and now it look way better than before!!

@@EvralTatum-Mcfield-ov2mi It's crazy haha

Why you didnt buy the new c2

@@nord.blut666 Are you serious?

@@nord.blut666 it's always the more sensible choice to go for the previous year's models when something is updated yearly. The quality won't differ much, but the price will be a lot lower.

@@kiisseli1337 ?

@@nord.blut666 the difference between the c1 and the c2 model wasnt big enough for me to justify an extra 1000€ over the c1

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You will deflebtly find a difference in a new tv aswell, I think it's worth waiting for qd oled next year wher they can fix the black screen reflection in a room owth a light in. If you have a light on in your room the blacks looks washed out wich is the number 1 of oleds

Yeah, the irony is that some folks would likely buy new TV's to get a brighter image, and those purchases would have more impact than the extra power consumption.

Isn’t it 4 hours since last button press?

@@globalist1990 for me I think the feature was bugged and just did it 4 hours regardless of button press. Sometimes it seemed sooner than 4 hours too.

This setting sucks on TVs. When i am watching in my room with the lights off, the screen brightness annoyingly fluctuates between scenes because the light sensor picks up the light from the screen too. So it basically feedbacking on itself.

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in my case it looks 11 times better.

@@branchprediction9923 lol ... you're lucky ... you got on of the better models from the tolerance lottery, I reckon ;-)

Mine only improved by 9 times ☹️😭

I can't stand this. Horror film girl running through a dark house, flicker. Soldier sneaking through the woods at night, flicker. I keep waiting for a firmware to come out and fix it but I'm getting the feeling that they consider it a feature. I'm not sure if bright or dark is the 'correct' mode but I actually like it in the brightened mode. You can actually see the tables or trees or stairs; dark mode turns everything into a black blob.

Turn all toys off.

@@dk-bw4gk just set it to "off" instead

This setting sucks on TVs. When i am watching in my room with the lights off, the screen brightness annoyingly fluctuates between scenes because the light sensor picks up the light from the screen too. So its basically feedbacking on itself.

Most of this guys stuff is wrong. People mistake picture Quality with a good looking picture.with picture quality these guys mean good by their calibration Tools even if the TV looks horrible 2d flat with no sharpneing or processing.

Much better now, thanks for your advice ❤

its an LG tv

Yeah, I really miss my Samsung Plasma I bought in 2007. Plasma seemed to produce the blackest black you could get which makes the rest of the pic “pop” like you say. My dad still has a 2014 Samsung Plasma and it’s got a better pic than my Samsung Quantum Dot TV from 2017.

I have a 2005 43 inch Panasonic plasma in my bedroom that I will put against any tv for clear picture people are amazed when I tell them how old it is it’s like it’s brand new

@@michaele1100 does your plasma throw out a lot of heat Michael ? My 2007 plasma, while great picture, acted like a freakin’ space heater. The manual would say “keep hands away from the top vents”. It would pump heat out of those top vents like crazy. Dads 2014 plasma doesn’t throw out too much heat but my 2007 sure did.

Not really sure only watch it before I go to bed maybe an hour or two but I have a 60 inch LG plasma in my living room yea I don’t even turn the heat on in there I’ll be sweating bullets if I did it makes the room warm

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Agreed, the A80J is too bright with it turned off in a dark room. The only SAF level is medium brightness/light sensor on.

Same here. I used to turn off Light Sensor on my now 20 years old 40” LCD Bravia most of the time. However I am reluctant to turn it off on 1 year old 65” A8 Bravia OLED. It looks nice with the LS ON, the HDR works great. And what is most important and not addressed in the video - perhaps? can accelerate burn-in on OLED as it is related to brightness. I am no expert on TVs but I heard that one of the anti-burn-in is to dim the constant bright logos.

Exactly, ever since I switched to LED I keep the light sensor on. It makes it brighter during the day and makes it comfortable to watch TV in the evening.

@@yourobson While you are on the right path.. it would also be like keeping the plastic cover on a velvet seat to avoid wear. wOled is already running at a loss regarding HDR reference by 300nits.. My question is.. at which point are you going to use the TV as intended?

​​@@absolutium It isn't like leaving a plastic cover on a valvet seat. Not even close. The differences shown in this video are subtle while plastic feels A WHOLE LOT DIFFERENT to valvet.

What do you mean by "top buttons"? The triggers? X,Y? B,Y?

Is this a thing on PlayStation as well? Or Xbox only?

Lb rb

@@Pkilla80 Lb, rb, and which other two "top" buttons?

@@GenMoviesOfficial Oh, all of them. Does that include the view button?

"Ambient light sensors are useful sometimes"... I have a Sony XG95. Even at the lowest Brightness setting, my eyes burn at night. Turning on Ambient Sensor lowers the brightness further and makes it comfortable. It's also great during daytime because the same brightness setting can be permanently the same value 24/7, and the TV will auto-brighten itself during the day. I have compared on vs off. There's no picture quality or color difference apart from the brightness. Which adjusts itself perfectly. I am keeping my Ambient Sensor ON. But perhaps Sony is the only brand with a good implementation.

You need luminosity that means power for HDR 10 or Dolby Vision! There is no low energy consumption when going for the best picture quality. I dont care about energy saving, my 55" OLED doesn't consume much in its brightest settings, my TV its efficient with the energy consumption it needs not with the lowest energy consumption you can have.

@@FREEDOMCONSERVATION LEDs are different. They have different efficiency (nits or lumen per Watt). Plus, the structure of the TV panel alters the light output of the LED per Watt.

@@isak6626 are you talking about LEDs like in LCD TVs or organic LEDs like in OLED? I didnt even thought about LCDs because you cant get an accurate picture on an LCD, the low contrast and the blooming on LCDs make those TVs something of a past. The WOLED, the QD OLED and in the future the micro LED, this are the TVs that can get you the best picture.

@@FREEDOMCONSERVATION all light emitting devices. The conversion rate of electricity into light differs. Efficiency improvements is exactly what LG has done over the past years to allow for higher light output without higher energy use.

@@isak6626 you guys need to get a life

The energy setting on my coffee maker drives me crazy. It turns off after 1 minute. I can't make my coffee in one minute. Not to get political, but there was a president who said in a speech he was going to get rid of all this idiocy - I would vote for him simply on that. I want the steam coming out of my dishwasher again and it washing dishes in 1/2 hr ago again, like it used to 25 years ago.

@@libertytree3209 Yeah, dishwashers at higher temperatures wash three-times quicker and clean better too, that's why I always wash mine at 60 degrees.

@@libertytree3209 didn't try very hard not to get political. If that's even meant for energy savings, it's done poorly that's on the manufacturer not regulations. I have a fairly new coffee maker it's stays on for probably 20 minutes to half hour, which is fine, better to have cold coffee then burnt coffee. Looks like they nailed it on the time because it's just starting to get overcooked when it shuts off. If we can't agree on hot coffee that's not burnt without getting into political branding, there's not much hope.

Castrate? It's a subtle difference.

​@@libertytree3209 You're confusing bad design with bad politics. No regulation is the reason for your coffee machine being like that get a better coffee machine. You jumped at the chance to shove your politics in a discussion where it is irrelevent.

Yes, indeed, it really look different now!!

Minimal ? My 55" LED bachlight LCD use 40w at the reduced baclight setting I find confertable to not hurt my eyes... At full setting it uses 130W and is to brigth that it is painfull, that is not minimal power saving...

that's why you should have gotten a Sony. Samsung over-brightens the image - it is well known. my Sony Z9J has 2400 nits measured brightness and i can run it at full brightness at night with sensor disabled and it isn't too bright simply because Sony doesn't automatically boost brightness. On other hand if i accidentally switch input to a PC showing a web page with a white background i will literally fall over in my seat because it's like getting smashed in the face with a baseball bat - brightness on a white page is shocking - but on a well graded movie it's not excessive at all. i had exchanged QN800A for a Z9J and despite having 50% more brightness capability the Z9J looks much darker in most scenes because it is accurate - night scenes look as dark as night should look - whereas on the QN800A it made night scene in "Dune" look like twilight for example ... if all your TVs are Samsung you will never even know those "twilight" scenes were actually night scenes. There are many settings that affect brightness ... i turn off all the settings that artificially boost brightness and turn contrast down as well ... then i turn off light sensor and max out the actual "brightness" setting ... in the end i get a picture that simply has more depth and realism. what your TV is doing is first it artificially boosts midtones then turns down the backlight - it may save you maybe 20 bucks over lifetime of TV in energy bills but you probably didn't get a top of the line TV to save money and you aren't getting the best picture.

@@g1981c the mistake you're making is turning contrast down.

LG also has a minimum brightness setting.

@@g1981c Are you aware of the Windows' HDR/SDR brightness balance setting?

I do the same and I think blindly telling this setting "hurts" image borders disinformation territory. It has its uses (and I definitely use it). I wouldn't recommend it for HDR though, as HDR is graded for maximum brightness in a dark room anyway.

Can't argue that. The previous lg web os was great. The latest (c1, c2) is clunky trash.

LG is way simpler than my current Philips 58PUS8535 TO a lot of things done in Philips you have to dig through two or three sub menus. they have a few settings in frequent settings but 90% of the frequent settings are not any settings I need to use😂 I had an lg for two and a half years and it was much easier but when setting picture settings I always had to go all the way down to the bottom to set for all sources which was annoying

its cause people use the vivid setting which blows saturation up big time

It’s just dimming, not local dimming. Local dimming is tv feature.

@@VincentVanBro You’re right. I edited the message. Ty

@UCdaP2H0QzQdupmqcB-BIp2Q Local dimming is LCD FALD backlight tv feature.. Dimming doesn't cause black crush. It may seem like it, if you have too much lights on. In total darkness it can't cause black crush.

@@VincentVanBro Also, Vince, you could also compare CX vs C1 vs C2 BFI (John Linneman from Digital Foundry said it’s gotten worse on the C1, and way worse on the C2)

@@alessandrob.g.4524 120hz bfi on the c1 is still identical to the cx. 60hz bfi's behavior has been changed. It only interests one black frame(8ms persistence instead of 4ms persistence at 60hz). At 120hz it's still 4ms persistence on both. Though it's not all bad. The c1 ends up being significantly brighter than the cx with bfi on. For bfi you can use 2.2 gamma and umm that one white setting in the game optimizer menu at 11. Black at 9.

But your phone isn't trying to give you exactly what the filmmaker was trying to create. That's why dimming the screen is dumb. You can switch to dark room mode and then you view it without hurting your eyes. At no point should you be close enough to your TV to hurt your eyes though.

You are very wrong. A tv works differently. Watch an HDR movie on an oled tv in a dark room with this power saving feature and then turn it off. If you prefer the former version then your eyes have a problem

​@@danielkissgremsperger3242 of course it would look better but some people are sensitive to brightness and just want a dimmer picture to relax and watch.

Get a backlight. You can then have the dark room and a bright picture without the big contrast difference between a bright screen and a dark room.

He already did it, for games at least.

@@alessandrob.g.4524 in reference for near black gamma?