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When you’re setting up the color on your television, you’ll want to invest in a calibration disc if it’s in your budget. You typically can purchase one for under $50. These discs will help make sure the color and every setting on your new television is set up properly, along with any audio settings.

Most calibration discs give you color strips to help you accurately set your color balance. The calibration disc will display a test pattern with a color like blue and you use the corresponding color strip to obtain the correct setting. While you’re looking through the color strip, adjust the setting until you cannot distinguish between the two colors on the screen.

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Next, you’ll want to adjust the tint on your television screen. Before you adjust the tint color on your television, you should turn off all the automatic color settings on your television. These settings can skew your overall settings and keep you from gaining the correct tint setting. Automatic color settings on most sets can be disabled in the television’s menu.

Tint controls the amount of red and green in your picture. If your tint setting is too high, you will see colors bleed onto neighboring colors. If this is the case, lower the setting to keep the colors from bleeding onto each other.

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When you’re adjusting the color on your television, as the average picture level changes, your television’s ability to hold black levels may change. Your television monitor will likely hold black levels very well on dark scenes but may have trouble holding black levels on bright scenes. If you keep that in mind, make sure that you test your brightness setting on both a low average picture level scene and a high average picture level scene. The calibration discs provide both types of scenes to help you obtain the correct setting.

Adjusting the color on your television is a critical part of the process of setting up your television. A poorly calibrated monitor doesn’t just give you a poor picture, it might burn your screen permanently. When you calibrate your monitor, you can make the settings on your television set interact properly with each other. Contrast and brightness both affect how dark the picture appears. By calibrating your television set’s color to perfections, you’ll be able to enjoy watching television or movies for as long as you have the television.