How To Make a New Ultra HDTV Look Shitty (Like It Should)



We finally got a new TV . .  a 55 inch Ultra HD LG; to break it in, we watched Poltergeist and I had an odd complaint: the picture was too sharp . . . my kids didn't mind, but I felt like everything looked like a movie set (which, of course, is true . . . but you don't want to notice) and the special effects looked cheesy, the spooky tree looked plain silly-- but I learned how to fix this "problem" of too much clarity-- you have to shut off both the motion smoothing (called Trumotion on the LG) and the sharpness enhancement . . . basically, shut off the computerized algorithms that the TV uses to make things sharper than they actually are supposed to be, and Saturday night we watched Raising Arizona with the new settings in place and the film looked properly gritty, much improved by the decline in picture quality . . . the imagery should be a bit fuzzy when folks are saying dialogue like this: when there was no meat, we ate fowl, when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad, and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand . . . you ate what? . . . we ate sand).


4 comments:

zman said...

I got a 50 inch ultra HD/4k TV last year and it hurt my eyes for about 3-5 days, then I got used to it. You might want to put the setting back to their original crisp levels and tough it out.

Unknown said...

Translation: "I can no longer spank one out to Whoopie Goldberg as I draw the line at skin tags."

Dave said...

fix your tv zman! it's ruining your aesthetic sense! and no one needs to see whoopi that clearly . . .

rob said...

neil!

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