First off, it’s truly a shame that Rtings, sold their TV. It would been really interesting to the updated review, but c'est la vie with loogie to the floor. The definite improvement is brightness all around. Going in to calibrate using the Sony hidden Blu-ray option (up-converted to 4K via Oppo UDP-203) with the previous setting (https://www.rtings.com/tv/discussions/xhpoZ5a1RTdU29NX/sharing-75-calibration-to-help-others). The lower black bar at the bottom, which are supposed to be all black with only one bar barely different, had a few more non-black bar. In other words; brightness and/or contrast had to be lowered. And guess-what… it’s looking like HDR and DV are the same. Stuck Blue Underground’s “Dead & Buried” UHD [a scene at the end were some is being buired]. On the old settings if I set brightness to 47, you’d lose all detail in the dirt. Now to do that you’ll have to go to low 40’s-high 30’s. Sadly this means I kinda back to almost square-one of trying to get the best HDR/DV calibration/experience. Though for the most part the old settings are still passable for now and will update those when I can. Otherwise here’s what I have for those still here and interested.

Oh, one more note; I have notice on many forums people saying that the screen seems darker since the last firmware. This true to a certain extent. I have found after turning on my TV to then “Reboot TV”. This seems to fix the problem for me. I tend to start the TV pressing the XUMO button and logo will seem darker (though this could be the screen warming-up), but once reboot, logo’s white and bright.

Picture Mode: Calibrated Dark Ambient Light Sensor: Off Tone Mapping: 100 [HDR] {Dolby} Backlight: 100 Brightness: 41 [48] {48} Contrast: 21 [48] {48} Color: 50 [50] {50} Tint: 0 Sharpness: 0 Color Temperature: Warm Picture Aspect: -

Advanced Picture Black Detail: Off Super Resolution: Off Edge Enhancement: Off Local Contrast: Off Active Full Array: High

Motion Control: All 0/Off Reduce Control Signal Noise: High Block Noise: Off Contour Smoothing: Off ProGaming Engine: All Off Film Mode: On Gamma: 2.2 Enhanced Viewing Angle: On

Color Calibration: Color Tuner Hue- (0, 10, 2, 7, -5, 0) [All 0] {All 0} Saturation- (-1, 6, 5, 3, 0, -1) [All 0] {All 0} Brightness- (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5) [All 0] {All 0} Offset- (0, 0, 0) [0, 0, 0] {0, 0, 0} Gain- (-95, -80, -75) [-94, -80, -74] {-94, -80, -74}

Input Picture Settings: YCbCr

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Update: 1/2/2022

I’m starting classes again and will not have much time to watch/test content to further improve my settings. So, here’s what I have thus far. Hopefully it will help those of you (if any) who wish to give them a try.

These settings are based by see, with no fancy/over-priced equipment, and therefore no white balance settings (which would be useless anyway as every screen is different. Though I’m willing to try others, after all if it doesn’t look right, set it back to default.). As for Color Turner; I have been focusing/watching HDR-content (which should always be left on default) and haven’t yet fiddle around with those setting. Though for the content that I have watched, the color seems pretty decent for the most part.

Regarding SDR; contrast at 24 so far seems to be the sweet spot. However, if you think it needs to be lowered, I would recommend no further than 21. 21 is where the black bar at the bottom of the Sony test pattern is barely-and I mean barely, visible.

Regarding HDR/Dolby Vision; I’ve tried to crack the code to get the answer for proper settings, but sadly there doesn’t appear to be one. From maybe the reason why 100 contrast works for some, yet not others. Such as MEL (minimum enhancement layer) vs. FEL (full enhancement layer), however that theory failed with several titles containing FEL and still need switching. So, best to make a second picture mode where contrast is 50. Though this can be extremely aggravating, it’s just sadly the way it is, until otherwise.

You’ll notice the Offset/Gains are different from the SDR. This was done for experimental purposes (and so far yielding good results) and an attempt to possibly increase the contrast-brightness. By pushing that annoying red/green and purple-blue-ish shadow-thing further to the right (when viewed on the Sony contrast test screen).

Picture Mode: Calibrated Dark Ambient Light Sensor: Off Tone Mapping: 100 [HDR] {Dolby} Backlight: 100 Brightness: 43 [50] {50} Contrast: 24 [100] {100} [{50 when you see the affects of high contrast}] Color: 55 [55] {55} Tint: 0 Sharpness: 0 Color Temperature: Warm Picture Aspect: -

Advanced Picture Black Detail: Off Super Resolution: Off Edge Enhancement: Off Local Contrast: Off Active Full Array: (High) [Medium] {Medium}

Motion Control: All 0/Off Reduce Control Signal Noise: (Off) [Off] {Off} Block Noise: Off Contour Smoothing: Off ProGaming Engine: All Off Film Mode: On [off] {On} Gamma: (2.4) [2.2] {2.4} Enhanced Viewing Angle: On

Color Calibration: Color Tuner Hue- (All 0) [All 0] {All 0} Saturation- (All 0) [All 0] {All 0} Brightness- (All 0) [All 0] {All 0} Offset- (0, 0, 0) [0, 0, 0] {0, 0, 0} Gain- (-94 -80 -75) [-96 -84 -74] {-96 -84 -74}

Input Picture Settings: YCbCr

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Updated 1/15/2022

Well after just a day or two of updating these calibrations I got firmware 5.41.29.10-1. But here’s the good news; it appears these calibrations aren’t affected by this latest firmware. Or at least I haven’t come across anything to say otherwise. Sadly nothing seems to really have been fixed. You still have to “Reboot TV” every time you turn it on, or else it looks a bit dark. Dolby Vision may of had a fix, I’m not really sure, but watching “Seinfeld” on Netflix (which is in 4K with DV) before this update had color-grain (best way I can put it) and now it doesn’t. Looks great. Sadly Vizio hasn’t posted what the last firmware did, or at least I can’t find it.

Oh, and one more thing; for my fellow Oppo Player owners out there.

Since these latest firmwares it is now possible to use TV-LED for Dolby Vision. Which is yes, meant for Sony TV, but now if you choose that the screen won’t go green or pink (I forget which). It works and seems to look a slight bit brighter too. Maybe even better color too, it seemed it, but I can’t officially tell.