Please help me set up my LCD TV

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#1 stranger220
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I just bought a Dynex 26in LCD TV for my Xbox 360 gaming. The TV has a decent picture quality for the price, but it could look better. It's 720p. My Xbox 360 was previously connected a 61in 1080 DLP TV, but now I bought a smaller TV for my bedroom, and Xbox 360 gaming. Can anybody recommened any settings that will make the games look good on the new TV?

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#2 pjrulez312
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what i did was mess around with the birghtness and contrast settings as well as sharpness and stuff. keep trying till you can find a way to make it look nice according to ur standards. and also check that ur xbox is set to 1080i for quality, it helped me

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Stream the two following pics to your 360, or put them on a portable device, whatever to make the images visible on your 360

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Then navigate to your TV picture settings and find something called "color tempature" (usually under advanced settings) and set it to low/warm/65k (name depends on the TV) and find the setting "dynamic contrast" and turn it off.

After that open the first picture and change your brightness settings and start lowering as much as you can but still maintaining a clear visible difference between the black boxes. Then jump to contrast and increase it as much as you can but there should still be clear difference between the white boxes. You might have to do some slight tweaking on both afterwards as the brightness and contrast settings affect eachother.

Then open up the second picture and keep on your eye on the colors, especially red and start increasing your color setting as much as you can without having the colors starting to get too intense and start to bleed out.

About sharpness, keep that setting right in the middle.

After that you are set, not as good as a professional calibration but should still be clearly better than the default settings.

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#4 GTR12
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I would buy a calibration disc, they are really cheap, and can make cheap TV's look really good.