Best TV pictures settings to watch the Super Bowl like a pro

finally at four some people tune in to the Super Bowl for the football others for the commercials or even the halftime show no matter what your great game plan everyone deserves to score the best picture quality and you don't have to get a new TV for that n Yan has advice from Consumer Reports to help you tackle your TV settings like a pro making a few tweaks to your TV's picture settings in time for the Super Bowl on February 9th can be well a real game Cher having the right settings in can make the difference between like making it seem like you're watching a cartoon versus like watching real life and since no one wants a cartoon version of the biggest game of the year listen up the first play of the game might surprise you trading your TVs present sports mode for one that can actually help you score better picture quality we typically recommend filmmaker mode it'll get you closest to the settings that we use if your TV doesn't have filmmaker mode you can try movie mode custom mode natural or one of the expert modes with just a few more moves you can take your TV's picture to the next level find a dark scene and pause it to adjust the brightness or black level the way this TV is set up currently it's too dark so you can't see some of the details in the background but as I raise the Black Level you'll see details like this cloth and this cloth overhead kind of emerging from the darkness if I raise it all the way it gets hazy which means I've set at too bright so what you want to do is lower it to the point that the TV is as dark as it can be without losing any of these details in the background you'll need a bright scene to set the contrast or white level where this TV is set up now the contrast is actually set too high so you can't see any detail as I lower it you'll start to see like the clouds and the ice ridges on the mountain appearing uh but if I keep going the image gets too dark so you want to raise the contrast until the image is bright but you're not losing any of the detail in the background then choose a warm or low color temperature so the yard lines look white and not blue and adjust the tint to the middle of the range so the player's flush tones look natural and don't sweat a fumble most TVs have a reset option to get you back to the factory settings so you can still will be the MVP of game day CR says using both black and white level test patterns from YouTube can save you the time of looking for a movie scene or CR members can save even more time with their exclusive TV screen Optimizer which offers expert settings for TVs dating back to 2013 the link is on the consumer page on 6abc.com back to you it's really good too really good advice yeah