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I recently picked up a Sony Bravia KDL-40V3000, which is a really nice 1080p HD TV that satisfied all of my requirements in buying a new TV. Out of the box, the standard image mode of “Vivid” looked like it was meant to burn the retinas of everybody watching it, and maybe lure unsuspecting bugs/human beings towards it, so they could bask in its (possibly) radioactive glow.

Right out of the box, I switched the picture mode to Cinema to get a half decent setup, without much work. Cinema, of course, looked sort of crummy, so some tweaking was necessary. I decided to go the expensive route and pick up the Digital Video Essentials HD-DVD/SD-DVD, and use their guided tour to get all my picture settings tweaked to perfection, for the environment and whatever unique characteristics my set has. While the outcome of my configuration ended up looking pretty good, it took me quite a while to complete and after I was done, I found there was a thread on www.avsforum.com where many other people had posted their optimized settings, most of which were scarily identical to my own… so, I could have saved myself $25 and a couple hours of time if I had just searched the internet first, but whatever… at least I can use this DVD for helping out friends and family with tweaking their sets.

The reason I even wrote this post, was because I saw an article in Forbes talking about this exact topic and wanted to throw in my two cents. Ya