Are these dangerous numbers to have your HDTV settings at?

I have a 26 inch LCD Vizio, and the settings I have give a beautiful picture, but I'm also afraid it could damaging my tv by pulling a lot from it, so here's my settings for it, if anything is too high/low or should be on/off, please let me know, thanks for the help in advance!

Backlight-50

Brightness-50

Contrast-65

Color-50

Tint-0

Sharpness-0

Color Temp-Normal

DNR-Low

Black Level Extender-On

White Peak Limitor-Off

CTI-Low

Flesh Tone-On

DCR-On

actually, those numbers are low so you have nothing to worry about.

Wow, thats great then. Thanks a lot.

I didn't know high settings could damage your HDTV. Is this true?

Well I hear divided opinions on this. A lot say that the higher you have them, the more it pulls out of them, causing them to go out faster than if they weren't straining as much, though I hear some that say it don't matter at all....

You can't damage your HDTV with settings....high or low. Where did you hear that??

The only issue you'd have to worry about is power-draw...and your size TV couldn't begin to give you an issues even with that.

If anything I'd feel free to turn your settings up quite a bit higher, remembering that an LCD will benefit from having a higher contrast/brightness.

Well, I changed the settings to 65, 55, 75, 55, 0, 0. Turned them up a bit and it actually does look better.

LoL Joke topic?

Since when did changin settings on a TV actually reduce the life of a TV, thats just ridiculous, who ever told you that either has no knowledge, or he is scared and doesn't know how to use his/her TV.

Actually, friends, one setting can reduce the life of your LCD: the Backlight setting. If you have the backlight at 10 (or the max), you will significantly reduce the lifespan of your lcd. I have mine at around a 3-4. The other settings don't really matter, so feel free to go crazy with em.

I'm surprised that you have sharpness set at 0 - that tells me your picture is very blurred out / smudgy looking, negating any reason to have an HDTV at all.

I've always been one to set sharpness as high as I can - I want to see every bit of detail I can on a screen - not blur them out to non-existence.

I can understand that people might disagree, because perhaps this is one reason I find jaggies in most of the games I play - even at 1080p, but I find it a fair trade-off to smudgy/blurred.

Oddly, when I turned my sharpness up my SD channels looked more blurry, since my DirecTV isnt in HD yet.

actually, those numbers are low so you have nothing to worry about.

justhat1

Really!? Wow. My numbers are

Brightness: 30

Contrast: 42

Color: 30

Tint: 0

Sharpness: 0

Color Temperature: Normal.

Actually, friends, one setting can reduce the life of your LCD: the Backlight setting. If you have the backlight at 10 (or the max), you will significantly reduce the lifespan of your lcd. I have mine at around a 3-4. The other settings don't really matter, so feel free to go crazy with em.

ndawgdrake

My backlight only has two options; energy saving on and energy saving off.

Oddly, when I turned my sharpness up my SD channels looked more blurry, since my DirecTV isnt in HD yet.

GamerBoy40

Actually, friends, one setting can reduce the life of your LCD: the Backlight setting. If you have the backlight at 10 (or the max), you will significantly reduce the lifespan of your lcd. I have mine at around a 3-4. The other settings don't really matter, so feel free to go crazy with em.

ndawgdrake

If it looks better with the backlight on or off or whatever setting, I would use it, I don't care if my TV goes, all I want is the best picture quality I paid for when I got my TV, so be it, if the TV lasts an extra 2-3 yrs but the picture is so horrible that its a shame you actually paid that amount.

I'd rather have a good picture and say the TV last 10 yrs, than have a bad picture whilst watching it for 15-20 yrs, no-one likes a bad picture.

[QUOTE="ndawgdrake"]

Actually, friends, one setting can reduce the life of your LCD: the Backlight setting. If you have the backlight at 10 (or the max), you will significantly reduce the lifespan of your lcd. I have mine at around a 3-4. The other settings don't really matter, so feel free to go crazy with em.

Amith12

If it looks better with the backlight on or off or whatever setting, I would use it, I don't care if my TV goes, all I want is the best picture quality I paid for when I got my TV, so be it, if the TV lasts an extra 2-3 yrs but the picture is so horrible that its a shame you actually paid that amount.

I'd rather have a good picture and say the TV last 10 yrs, than have a bad picture whilst watching it for 15-20 yrs, no-one likes a bad picture.

You can't damage your HDTV with settings....high or low. Where did you hear that??

clay1311

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You can't damage your HDTV with settings....high or low. Where did you hear that??

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