proper settings for older color sets

[ChrisW6ATV]

Your third picture looks especially good.

Before we ever had a color TV in my family (my grandmother's in 1974), I remember everyone seemed to "want to get their money's worth" from their color sets, and they cranked the color to extremes, just about every set I saw. When my grandma got her set (a Hitachi 19-inch), and I tinkered with the controls when she let me watch it, I was happy to find that you could adjust it to "real" color. Regarding contrast, I set it to the lowest I can accept rather than the highest the TV can handle.

[zeno]

Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

" they cranked the color to extremes, just about every set I saw."

And now they come out of the box that way. Factory sets them to
scream "look at me" from the rows of junk. Most never go into the menu to
make them right. Trouble is life isnt that colorful.
When I delivered a new set they got a complete lesson on all controls.
No big box here its mom & pop. Also told them to LOOK at a face, it
dosnt have much color & adjust it that way. Everything else falls into line then.
I think the roundies have such a natural pix is because that they designed them
for the real world & people with fingers to adjust...........

73 Zeno

[oldtvman]

Originally Posted by zeno

And now they come out of the box that way. Factory sets them to
scream "look at me" from the rows of junk. Most never go into the menu to
make them right. Trouble is life isnt that colorful.
When I delivered a new set they got a complete lesson on all controls.
No big box here its mom & pop. Also told them to LOOK at a face, it
dosnt have much color & adjust it that way. Everything else falls into line then.
I think the roundies have such a natural pix is because that they designed them
for the real world & people with fingers to adjust...........

73 Zeno

Most tv sets on display are set to demo mode which cranks the contrast and color intensity. I always thought it was funny when people would come in and ask what the contrast ratio was. Keeping in mind 98% on them had no clue as to what that was. Lg had a set that had theatre mode on it and basically it made the picture look more like what you would see in the theatre. Unfortunately most people don't like pictures that are realistic on their tv screens. My only point of this thread was I see lots of great sets shown here that would have a great picture is the controls were set properly. Back in the day you were supposed to set the black and white settins to reproduce a proper picture and then add color to the mix.

[NowhereMan 1966]

I think that's why the tubes in our TV's last a long time. We don't like to drive them too high, especially the brightness plus Mom does not like to crank up the color very high. I see her point, when you do, sometimes it looks too cartoonish and gives me a headache. I know my aunt sometimes likes to do that and Mom always complains about it. Well, My aunt gave us her 1999 35 inch Sony a few years ago and the picture tube just died so we had to bring out the old 1982 Zenith again. :p