IMPORTANT: This article applies to Google TV. For Android TV™ models, refer to the Adjusting the Picture setting on my Android TV article. For other BRAVIA TVs, refer to the Adjusting the Picture setting on my LCD TV article.
Picture settings allow for a wide array of changes to colour, contrast, motion settings, and brightness that can improve the way you view content. Picture settings are adjustable when viewing video streams, DVD/Blu-ray Discs, USB drives, and composite/component video content.
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- A brief description of each item is displayed on the picture setting screen of your TV. Use this article as a reference to personalise your viewing experience.
- You can alter Picture settings while viewing content.
- When Auto Picture Mode is set to On, the Picture mode will change automatically based on the content. You may notice changes in brightness or saturation when this setting is set to On. You can also turn this setting Off if you prefer to choose your own settings.
To access Picture settings, press the 
(Quick Settings) button on your TV remote, then select Settings → Display & Sound → Picture and then select a picture setting.
Picture mode
Change the picture quality according to the content you are watching (groups of automatic settings)
Picture mode is an image quality setting that is preset to be suitable to the genre of the program and the type of image. The following are explanations for each of the settings available in Picture mode:
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- The availability of adjustable functions depends on the model of the TV.
- When Auto Picture Mode is set to On, the Picture mode will change automatically according to the content.
- By selecting Reset picture settings for ***, you can reset the picture settings for the current picture mode to the factory default.
- You can shortcut to access Picture mode directly by pressing the (Quick Settings) button on the remote control.
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Picture mode
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Overview
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Explanation and Concept
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| Vivid | Clear colours and contours, as well as enhanced contrast. | This mode offers enhanced bright and dark colours and sharpens edges for standing out in bright places such as storefronts. |
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| Standard | Recommended for everyday use at home. | This mode optimizes brightness, colour depth, and enhances edges making it ideal for most users at home. |
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| Cinema | Recommended for watching films at home. |
This mode displays content with brightness, colour depth and edges the way the producers want you to view movie content.
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| Game | Recommended for gaming. | This mode reduces image delay (shortening the input lag between the controller and the TV screen) while also optimizing picture quality. |
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| Graphics | Recommended for graphics and use with computers. | This mode optimizes graphics content when using the TV as a PC monitor. |
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| Photo | Recommended for photo viewing at home. | This mode optimizes brightness, colour depth and edges when viewing photo content. |
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| Custom | Emphasises true reproduction of the original signal. | This mode allows you to adjust settings the way you prefer. |
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Auto Picture Mode
Automatically select the Picture mode based on the content being viewed
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Setting items
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Overview, Setting Values and Explanation
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| Auto Picture Mode |
- Setting Values: Off or On
- The Auto Picture Mode function can only be used with HDMI input.
- If you do not like the Picture mode settings to change automatically, turn this setting Off.
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Light sensor
Optimize brightness according to ambient light
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Setting items
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Overview, Setting Values and Explanation
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| Light sensor |
Optimises picture quality automatically by sensing the colour and luminance of ambient light.
- Setting Values: Off or On
- Adjusts the screen brightness according to the surrounding brightness. When the TV is in a dark environment, the screen brightness is darker to avoid extreme brightness.
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| Auto luminance level |
Adjusts the luminance level of the screen according to the luminance level of the ambient light reducing glare.
Setting Values: Off or On
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| Auto tone curve |
Adjusts the balance between light and dark scenes in the picture, making it easier to see dark areas of the screen in a bright environment.
Setting Values: Off or On
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Auto white balance
(only for specific models) |
Optimizes the colour temperature based on the ambient light available.
Setting Values: Off or On
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Brightness
Adjust the backlight to display the brightest whites and deepest blacks
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Setting items
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Overview, Setting Values and Explanation
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| Brightness |
Adjust the luminance of the screen.
- Setting Values: Min (0) to Max (50)
- Up: the screen gets brighter
- Down: the screen gets darker
- Power consumption increases when the screen is brighter and decreases when it is darker.
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| Contrast |
Adjust the brightness by controlling the signal range.
- Setting Values: Min (0) to Max (100)
- When the contrast is lowered, the white level becomes darker. The differences in colour between the light and dark sections of the content start to reduce and the picture becomes darker.
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| Gamma |
Adjust the light and dark balance by controlling the middle range luminance while maintaining white and black levels.
- Setting Values: Min (-3) to Max (3)
- The function adjusts the light and dark balance. Increasing the gamma correction brightens the picture, and decreasing it darkens the picture.
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| HDR tone mapping |
Adjust the brightness and gradation balance automatically by analysing the HDR content's luminance levels.
- Setting Values: Min (0) to Max (100)
- Only variable in case of HDR signals.
- Adjust the brightness and gradation balance automatically by analysing the HDR content's luminance levels.
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| Black level |
Adjust the picture's black level by controlling the signal level.
- Setting Values: Min (0) to Max (100)
- Increasing the black level makes the dark area details (patterns) more visible, and decreasing the black level makes the dark areas less visible.
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| Black adjust |
Enhances the black level by analysing the luminance level of the picture in real time and automatically adjusts the dark levels.
- Setting Values: Off, Low, Medium, or High
- The function improves the sense of contrast and depth by darkening the black areas of the image.
- The signals inputted to the TV are analyzed individually and in real time so that an optimum black correction level is achieved.
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| Adv. Contrast enhancer |
Automatically corrects the contrast by analysing the luminance level of the picture in real time.
- Setting Values: Off, Low, Medium, or High
- Optimally controls the sense of contrast in the image.
- By converting the image to the dynamic range that the TV can reproduce, the image displays a brighter feeling of contrast, depth and stereoscopic effect.
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| Auto local dimming |
Optimizes contrast by analysing luminance levels in real time and adjusting the brightness of each part of the backlight automatically.
- Setting Values: Off, Low, Medium, or High
- The function improves the reproduction of blacks and improves contrast by automatically adjusting the brightness of the backlight partially according to the partial brightness of the image.
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| Peak Luminance |
Optimises contrast especially in dark scenes by analysing the screen's luminance levels in real time and making bright areas brighter.
Setting Values: Off, Low, Medium, or High
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Colour
Adjust the colour saturation level and Hue
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Setting items
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Overview, Setting Values and Explanation
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| Colour |
Adjust the colour tone by controlling the colour saturation level.
- Setting Values: Min (0) to Max (100)
- A function that makes the colour depth deeper or paler.
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| Hue |
Shifts the overall colour in the red (R) and green (G) direction.
- Setting Values: R50 to G50
- A function that shifts the hue towards red or green. Mainly used to adjust the analogue signal image where the hue tends to shift during transmission.
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| Colour temperature |
Adjust the colour temperature that is standard for colour reproduction.
- Setting Values: Warm, Natural, Cool, Expert1, or Expert2
- A function that adjusts the colour temperature as a reference for colour reproduction of images.
- It can be adjusted to four stages that emulate "day white" or the "bulb colour" of electric lighting.
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| Live Colour |
Adjusts the vividness of colours by correcting the strength of each colour.
- Setting Values: Off, Low, Medium, or High
- A function that expands the colours of the image to the reproducible colours of the TV, and achieves vivid colour reproduction.
- Colour expansion of the input signal is not performed when set to Off.
- At Low or higher, expansion of the colour reproduction range is performed.
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Clarity
Adjust the picture clarity and reduce roughness
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Setting items
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Overview, Setting Values and Explanation
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| Sharpness |
Adjusts the picture detail by emphasizing edges and details of objects and people in the image, as well as controlling noise balance.
- Setting Values: Min (0) to Max (100)
- 50 is the reference. Raising it above 50 makes the contours and details clearly visible, and lowering it blurs the picture.
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| Reality Creation / Resolution |
Enhances the details in the video by performing Super Resolution processing and noise reduction while analysing the picture in real time. Resolution is adjustable by selecting Manual.
- Setting Values: Auto, Manual, or Off
- Adjust the Resolution (Min (0) to Max (100)) by selecting Manual.
- Ability to reproduce images with fine detail by emphasizing details in the image using Sony’s proprietary database type super resolution function.
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| Random noise reduction |
Reduces dot noise and colour noise that tends to appear in dark areas of the screen.
- Setting Values: Off, Low, Medium, High, or Auto
- Random noise appears as rough noise during screen movement, and also appears when the reception state is poor with analogue broadcasting.
- Random noise tends to occur when the broadcasting station raises the sensitivity of the camera and is often seen in dark scenes.
- This function reduces repetitive random noise.
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Digital noise reduction
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Reduces noise seen around letters and compression noise, such as block noise.
- Setting Values: Off, Low, Medium, High, or Auto
- Digital noise is reduced using this setting. Digital noise is comparable to the sound of a mosquito and occurs occasionally in content such as broadcasts.
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| Smooth gradation |
Smoothens jagged edges on an image caused by gradation.
- Setting Values: Off, Low, Medium, or High
- Function that eliminates and smooths out noise (referred to as banding) appearing gradually and as stripes in the gradation parts of the image.
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Motion
Refines moving images and optimizes picture quality based on video content
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Setting items
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Overview, Setting Values and Explanation
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| Motionflow |
Adjust Smoothness and Clearness according to your preferences.
- Setting Values: Auto, Custom, or Off
- Function that increases the number of video frames and displays moving images smoothly.
- Adjust the Smoothness and Clearness by selecting Custom.
- Smoothness：
- Adjust the strength of smoothness by using frame interpolation of the input signal.
- Setting Values: Min (0) to Max (3)
- Clearness：
- Adjust the strength of clarity by inserting a black frame to reduce motion blur.
- Setting Values: Min (0) to Max (3)
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Film Mode
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Detects video of films and other content, and optimises picture quality by using IP (Interlaced-Progressive) conversions and frame interpolation.
- Setting Values: Auto or Off
- This function smoothens motion stutter in content (images shot at 24 frames per second).
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