Adjusting the Picture setting on my Android TV
Before you start
- Picture settings allow for a wide array of changes to colour, contrast, motion settings and brightness that can improve viewing content on your Android TV.
- Picture settings are adjustable when viewing video streams, DVD/Blu-ray Discs, USB drives, and composite/component video content.
- Picture mode settings also provide preset adjustments for the type of picture you are viewing.
- You can adjust your picture settings 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 for bright and dark colours and enhanced edges for standing out in bright places such as storefronts. |
| Standard | The most suited mode for home use. | This mode optimizes brightness, colour depth and enhances edges making it ideal for most users at home. |
| Custom | Customize picture settings. | Customize picture settings according to preferences. |
| Cinema pro (Cinema1) | Suitable picture for film-based content. |
Reproduces content in the picture settings intended by the film studio. |
| Cinema home (Cinema2) | Suitable picture for watching movies at home. |
Mode of brightness and colour adjusted for use at home. |
| Sports | Suitable picture for watching sports. |
Suited 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. |
Suited for content with bright and dark colours and enhances edges to stand out in bright places. |
| Photo-Standard | Suitable basic picture for home use. |
Suitable mode of brightness, colour 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, Colour, 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 Colour 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 the screen is brighter and decreases when it's darker. |
| Color |
Adjust the color saturation level. Min (0) ← Colour → Max (100) Makes the colour 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, Colour, Clarity, and Motion)
Select this to adjust more detailed settings such as image brightness, colour, sharpness, and noise for a customized viewing experience.
- Some TV models do not have an Advanced settings option, but you can adjust the same settings from Brightness, Colour, 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 do not appear, select your desired option from Brightness, Colour, 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 the screen is brighter and decreases when it's darker. |
| Contrast |
Adjust the white level of the picture. Min (0) ← Contrast → Max (100). If you lower the contrast, the difference between the light and dark sections of the white level reduces. Lowering the contrast produces a darker image. |
| 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 colour in images. The signal input to your TV is analyzed individually in real time and set to achieve an optimum black correction level. |
| 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 produces a brighter contrast, increased feeling of depth and a 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.
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|
Settings items |
Overview, Setting values and Explanation |
|---|---|
| Colour |
Adjust the colour saturation level. Min (0) ← Color → Max (100) Makes the colour depth deeper or paler. |
| Hue |
Adjust the colour tone. (R50 ～ G50) Shifts the overall colour in the red (R) and green (G) direction. |
| Colour temperature |
Adjusts the colour temperature as a reference for colour reproduction of images. You can adjust this setting to four stages that emulate "day white" or the "bulb colour" of electric lighting.
|
| Live colour |
Emphasize the vividness of colours.
Expands the colours of the image to the reproducible colours of the TV producing a vivid colour reproduction. Colour expansion of the input signal is not performed when set to Off. Expansion of the colour reproduction range occurs when the Live colour is set to medium or high. |
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Settings items |
Overview, Setting values and Explanation |
|---|---|
| Sharpness |
Adjust the picture details. Min (0) ← Sharpness → Max (100) Emphasizes contours and details of objects or people in the image. 50 is the standard 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 analogue 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, similar to mosquito noise, easily occurs in images such as terrestrial digital broadcasts, as well as other noise that appears to be blocky. |
| Smooth gradation |
Smoothens the gradation of the flat part of the screen. It also eliminates and smoothens 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, lending to a smoother image.
Adjustments to Smoothness and Clearness are available once the Custom mode is selected. |
| CineMotion |
Detects the type of content such as movies or computer graphics, and automatically corrects the image. Smoothly reproduces the motion of film content such as movies (images shot at 24 frames per second).
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