#INSIGIA PLASMA FLICKERY DARKS TV#

If Power Saving is set to Low or High, the screen becomes dark. If the screen is still dark after the picture quality mode is changed, change the setting Backlight, Picture, Brightness and adjust the brightness to your taste.Ģ. If Picture mode is set to Cinema or Custom, the screen may become dark. Sony goes on to offer several tips if your set’s picture appears too dark and here they are: (Note: These tips can work for any brand TV.)ġ. So if Sony acknowledges the practice on a public web site, well, I would think that’s all the evidence you would need.

#INSIGIA PLASMA FLICKERY DARKS TV#

“When a TV is in a store they are set up for Shop Front display settings which are very bright and vivid.” Doing some research to answer your question, I came across this quote from Sony’s support page: I’ve received some comments expressing skepticism that stores would do this (including one from a retailer), which is why I can address this question again. However, as I noted in that article, brighter is not always better you can lose picture details and color if you turn up the brightness too much. I touched on this in our TV Answer Man feature, ‘How Stores Trick You Into Buying a TV.‘I wrote that retailers sometimes purposely tune the sets (all sets, not just Sony sets) on the show floor to look brighter to attract the attention of shoppers. Is there anything I can do about it? The TV looked a lot brighter when I saw it in the store. The picture on my Sony TV seems a little dark, particularly during movies.

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