After testing dozens of TVs of the years, I know why they look so different at home
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- Store mode exaggerates brightness, color, and motion for display.
- Home mode delivers a more accurate, balanced picture quality.
- Switching modes is simple but may require a factory reset.
The TV-buying experience has a lot in common with buying paint: it always looks different in your home than it did in the store. While paint colors look different on your wall because the gods delight in small miseries, TVs have special picture settings just for store display units that push them to the limit and are designed to grab your attention from the next department over.
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Retail picture modes boost contrast, color saturation, 4K upscaling, and motion smoothingto create a very bold image, but don't always reflect how a...
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