Every TV has a bunch of settings to adjust the picture quality. While changing your TV’s picture mode can do a ton in getting it to look its best, there’s one feature that deserves special attention. It’s called “Sharpness,” and while that seems straightforward, it’s actually not doing what you’d think. Believe it or not, turning this setting down can actually improve your TV’s image.
I totally understand wanting to get the most detail from your 4K TV, but the fact is, the sharpness control doesn’t actually increase the TV’s sharpness. With most TVs, it actually masks fine detail. This means that when your sharpness is set too high, you could lose some of the crisp detail possible on that new TV. In some cases, the best sharpness setting is actually zero, while on most TVs the setting is best in the bottom 20% or so.
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