• Backlight - Adjusts the overall light intensity of the screen. • Brightness – Adjusts the dark level of the black areas of the picture. • Contrast – Adjusts the white level of the light areas of the picture. • Sharpness – Adjusts the sharpness of the edges of objects ...
The TV's screen finish did a fine job handling reflections, about as well as the Hisense U8K, but it didn't preserve dark areas as well as the C3 OLED. David Katzmaier/CNET TCL QM8 settings and picture mode notes The most accurate picture mode for HDR was IMAX, which measured s...
This TV has some uniformity issues as the corners of the screen are darker, but this may vary between units. There's also visible dirty screen effect in the center, which could be distracting during sports. In near-dark scenes, uniformity is worse as there's backlight bleed along the edge...
because it flashed a message up on the screen; we selected ARC as the TV’s audio output and its own speakers went quiet, but nothing reached the receiver. In addition there seemed some HDMI handshaking conflict; if we selected an input on the receiver to play from, it was immediately ov...
this phone battery wasn't incredible or horrendous. It lasted me from 8am to 2am with around 15% left. During this time, I had around 3 or 4 hours of screen on time depending on the day. All around I wouldn't say this is the best in the world or the worst. It's definitely good...
A Blu-ray player and a large flat-screen TV are the basics of a home theater system. But what about surround-sound speakers and a whole room of equipment? Whether you want to pay a little or a lot to get the most out of your moviegoing experience is entirely up to you. Speaker ...
Olive plops down on the grass beside me, and I’m glad my phone’s screen reveals nothing. The smell of peonies hangs in a mist around her, and in spite of the oversized sweater and mom jeans she’s wearing, she’s not sweating at all. “I thought you had work today,” she says...
The reflection of an older woman stared back at the black screen. The woman resembled neither of the two sisters in the video, who beamed with their youthful beauty. She had the same dusky brown skin, jet-black hair and even the same name as the little girl in the tape, but she ...
When we finally got inside, a ghost jumped out at us from behind a screen. Della reached for my arm and held it tight as we felt our way back to the cloak room where a black light lit up the fluorescent signs in front of a row of bowls: “Brains!”“Eyeballs!”“Guts!” We ga...