Adjust the picture settings on your Android TV
Before you start
- Picture settings allow a wide array of changes to color, contrast, motion settings, and brightness that can improve the viewed content on your Android TV™.
- Settings are adjustable for the types of content viewed such as streaming video, DVD/Blu-ray Disc™, USB drive, and composite/component video content.
- Picture mode settings provide preset adjustments for the type of picture you are viewing.
- You are able to view settings you adjust in real time
Select the appropriate setting for more information on how you can enhance your viewing experience.
Picture mode (groups of automatic settings)
Picture mode is an image quality setting that is preset to be suitable for the genre of the program and the type of image. Basic settings are automatically selected based on the mode you select.
To access the Picture mode settings:
- Using the ACTION MENU button:
Select ACTION MENU → Picture or Picture adjustments → Picture mode. - Using the Quick Settings button:
Select(Quick Settings) → Picture mode.
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Picture mode |
Overview |
Explanation and concept |
|---|---|---|
| Vivid | Picture with enhanced edges and high contrast. | Suitable mode of bright and dark colors and enhanced edges for standing out in bright places such as storefronts. |
| Standard | Suitable basic picture for home use. | Suitable mode of brightness, color depth, and enhanced edges for home environments. |
| Custom | Customize picture settings. | Customize picture settings according to preferences. |
| Cinema pro (Cinema1) | Suitable picture for film-based content. |
Reproduces the style intended by the film studio. |
| Cinema home (Cinema2) | Suitable picture for watching movies at home. |
Mode of brightness and color adjusted assuming use at home. |
| Sports | Suitable picture for watching sports. |
Especially for fast moving pictures. |
| Animation | Suitable picture for watching animation. |
Mode optimally adjusted for animation, such as the emphasized outlines of cartoons. |
| Photo-Vivid | Picture with enhanced edges and high contrast. |
Suitable mode of bright and dark colors and enhanced edges for standing out in bright places. |
| Photo-Standard | Suitable basic picture for home use. |
Suitable mode of brightness, color depth, and enhanced edges for home environments. |
| Photo-Custom | Customize picture settings. |
Mode for customizing picture settings according to preferences. |
| Game | Suitable picture for playing video games. |
Mode for optimum image quality in video games, with the shortest image delay (the time until your TV reflects the game controller operation). |
| Graphics | Suitable picture for displaying charts, tables, graphs, and illustrations. | Mode for using your TV as a computer monitor. |
Basic settings other than Picture mode (Auto picture mode, Brightness, Color, Light Sensor)
To access these additional settings:
- Using the ACTION MENU button:
- Select ACTION MENU → Picture or Picture adjustments → the desired option.
- Using the Quick Settings button:
- For the Brightness adjustment: Select
- For the Color or Light sensor adjustments: Select Quick settings → Settings → Display & Sound → the desired option.
- For the Brightness adjustment: Select
|
Setting items |
Overview, Setting values and Explanation |
|---|---|
| Auto Picture Mode |
Automatically selects the picture mode based on the content being viewed. (Off/On) The Auto Picture Mode function can only be used with HDMI input. |
| Brightness |
Adjust the luminance of the screen. Min (0) ← Brightness → Max (50).
Power consumption increases when screen is brighter and decreases when it's darker. |
| Color |
Adjust the color saturation level. Min (0) ← Color → Max (100) Makes the color depth deeper or paler. |
| Light sensor |
Adjust the luminance level of the screen according to the surrounding brightness. (Off/On) Adjust the screen brightness according to the surrounding brightness. When the TV is in a dark environment, the screen brightness is darker to avoid extreme brightness. |
Advanced settings (advanced settings for Brightness, Color, Clarity, and Motion)
Select this to adjust more detailed settings such as image brightness, color, sharpness, and noise for easier viewing or to your preferences for different types of content.
- Some models do not have an Advanced settings option, but you can adjust the same settings from Brightness, Color, Clarity, or Motion.
- The availability of the adjustable functions depends on the TV model.
To access the Advanced settings menu:
- Using the ACTION MENU button:
- Select ACTION MENU → Picture adjustments → Advanced settings.
- Using the Quick Settings button:
Note: If Advanced settings does not appear, select your desired option from Brightness, Color, Clarity or Motion.
- Select
- Select
|
Setting items |
Overview, Setting values and Explanation |
|---|---|
| Brightness |
Adjust the luminance of the screen. Min (0) ← Brightness → Max (50).
Power consumption increases when screen is brighter and decreases when it's darker which is as same as lighting equipment. |
| Contrast |
Adjust the white level of the picture. Min (0) ← Contrast → Max (100). If you lower the contrast, the white level becomes darker, and the difference between the light and dark parts of the white level becomes small, so the picture becomes dark. |
| Gamma |
Adjust the light and dark balance. Min (-3) ← Gamma → Max (3). Increase the gamma correction to brighten the picture, and decrease to darken the picture. |
| Black level |
Adjust the black level of the picture. Min (0) ← Black level → Max (100) Increase the black level to make the dark area details (patterns) more visible, and decrease the black level to make the dark areas less visible. |
| Black adjust |
Enhance the black in images for ber contrast. (Off) ← Black adjust → (Low / Medium / High) Improves the sense of contrast or depth in the image by enhancing the black color in images. The signal input to your TV is analyzed individually in real time and are controlled so that an optimum black correction level is achieved. |
| Adv. contrast enhancer |
Optimally controls the sense of contrast of the image and automatically adjusts the contrast based on picture brightness to:
By converting the image to the dynamic range that the TV can reproduce, the image has a brighter contrast feeling / feeling of depth / stereoscopic effect. |
| Auto local dimming |
Optimize contrast by adjusting brightness in individual sections of the screen to:
Improves reproduction of blacks and improves contrast by automatically adjusting the brightness of the backlight partially according to the partial brightness of the image. |
| X-tended Dynamic Range |
Adjust the peak luminance level to display the brightest whites and deepest blacks to:
Improves contrast further when you increase the luminance of bright areas partially.
|
|
Settings items |
Overview, Setting values and Explanation |
|---|---|
| Color |
Adjust the color saturation level. Min (0) ← Color → Max (100) Makes the color depth deeper or paler. |
| Hue |
Adjust the color tone. (R50 ～ G50) Shifts the overall color in the red (R) and green (G) direction. |
| Color temperature |
Adjusts the color temperature as a reference for color reproduction of images. You can adjust this setting to four stages that emulate "day white" or the "bulb color" of electric lighting.
|
| Live color |
Emphasize the vividness of colors.
Expands the colors of the image to the reproducible colors of the TV, and achieves vivid color reproduction. Color expansion of the input signal is not performed when set to Off. At Low or higher, expansion of the color reproduction range is performed. |
|
Settings items |
Overview, Setting values and Explanation |
|---|---|
| Sharpness |
Adjust the picture details. Min (0) ← Sharpness → Max (100) Emphasizes contours and details of things and people in the image. 50 is the preference. Raising it above 50 makes the contours and details clearly visible, and lowering it blurs the picture. |
| Reality Creation |
Adjust fineness and noise for a realistic picture. (Off) ← Reality Creation → (Auto / Manual) Ability to reproduce images with fine detail when you emphasize details in the image using our proprietary database type super resolution function. Set Reality Creation to Manual to adjust Resolution between (Min (0) - Max (100). |
| Mastered in 4K |
Optimize picture quality for Blu-ray discs mastered in 4K. Applies to 1080/24p signals only through HDMI inputs. Reproduces 4K original quality video from Blu-ray HD video.
To use this function, set the Picture mode to Cinema pro (Cinema 1) or Cinema home (Cinema 2) in advance. |
| Random noise reduction |
Reduce repetitive random noise.
Random noise appears as rough noise during screen movement, and also appears when the reception state is poor with analog broadcasting. Random noise tends to occur when the broadcasting station raises the sensitivity of the camera and is often seen in dark scenes. |
| Digital noise reduction |
Reduce video compression noise.
Digital noise, such as mosquito noise, easily occurs in images such as terrestrial digital broadcasts, as well as other noise that appears to be blocky. |
| Smooth gradation |
Smoothen the gradation of the flat part of the screen, eliminates and smooths out noise (referred to as banding) appearing gradually and as stripes in the gradation parts of the image.
|
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Settings items |
Overview, Setting values and Explanation |
|---|---|
| Motionflow |
Refine moving images. Adjusts the Smoothness and Clearness to refine moving images and increases the number of video frames to display moving images smoothly.
Adjustments to Smoothness and Clearness are available once the Custom mode is selected. |
| CineMotion |
Detect the type of video such as movies and computer graphics, and perform the best video correction process. Smoothly reproduces the motion of film content such as movies (images shot at 24 frames per second).
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