Most LCD/"LED" TVs in the market place have very bad black level retention, and movies with dark scenes tend to give them fits. In other words, they don't reproduce blacks as well as your old CRT TV did. Cheaper TVs are far more prone to this than better models. If bright movies or sports seem normal, that's what's going on.
Here's what you can try: go into the picture menu and turn OFF any feature that has to do with picture. Automatic this, automatic that, etc. In particular, look for things like "deep black", contrast expansion, black leve expansion, etc. and turn them off. Go back and readjust contrast and brightness for normal picture. The TV may not look as "good" as you remember, but it will be far more accurate than it was, it will do better on dark scenes, and after you get used to it, will realize the picture is now actually better than it was before.
TVs have these features to make the picture "pop" on demonstration, but makes them wildly inaccurate. The idea of a TV is to produce a picture that's realistic, not artificially enhanced.
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mphsss
10 years ago
Oh I was actually referring to a CRT. When I watch this through my PS2, the image is really dark. I think some of the other DVD players I've had were just naturally brighter than that. I did adjust the brightness on this TV a couple years ago but recently did end up hitting the reset button for some reason and now it's back on 32 when I think it used to be in the mid 40s.
I must be weird but I actually prefer movies on that kinda TV over these bigass flat ones. They either stretch the image too much or there's not as much depth perception. I assume the slightly rounded screen plays a part in that. They're great for stuff that's been filmed to fit those kinda TVs! I think it's all a ruse to sell (better) crap. I think people got the impression that everything you popped in would basically adjust itself to the screen, and then they're pissed when commercials don't fill up the screen and everything filmed before about 2011 looks bad on there.
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