Setting Your Monitor

Since my TV's are dying after over ten years of faithful service the display setting of the screens have become very important. If you do not have the privilege of auto configuration this is how to do it.

Notes
There will be four specific nobs used to set the monitors.

Name Icon Function
Brightness Sun adjust white
Contrast Black & White Circle adjust black
Hue/Tint NA adjusts color intensity
Color/Chroma NA adjust pixel color

In general black and white is better seen with peripheral vision (out of the corner of your eyes) and by males.
In general color is seen better with direct vision and by females.
Green is the most easily seen color by humans.
There is a lot of red human pigments.
There is a lot of blue in natural light.
Have the lighting of the room to the level that is most commonly present when the monitor is used.
Have a general picture or template with basic colors to use to set your screen to. Cartoons or games that involve simple shape and primary colors, like the Simpsons, South Park, or Super Mario make things very easy.

Black and White

Set Brightness and Contract their middle setting.
Turn the Brightness nob all the way up. Focus on a true black area, for example an outline of a character. Turn the nob down until it is just beyond the verge in which it cannot become darker.
Turn the Contrast nob all the way down. Focus on a true white area, for example the whites of an eye. Turn the nob up until it is just beyond the verge in which it cannot become brighter.

Notice I said true black and true white. If you have a computer shrink the screen. Notice the border of the project of the computer screen and the inactive monitor pixels. Try to match the black of the display with the black of the inactive monitor. If you are using a video game. Turn the brightness up and play untill you notice and inactive monitor. These are very frequent with cut scene. You know fade out to black, then fade in to the new round. Unfortunately I don't have any trick for white, except try it in reverse. Turn the nob all the way up. Lower it, and stop at the point which is starts to become darker.

Black and White
Set Brightness and Contract their middle setting. Turn the Brightness nob all the way up. Focus on a true black area, for example an outline of a character. Turn the nob down until it is just beyond the verge in which it cannot become darker. Turn the Contrast nob all the way down. Focus on a true white area, for example the whites of an eye. Turn the nob up until it is just beyond the verge in which it cannot become brighter.
Notice I said true black and true white. If you have a computer shrink the screen. Notice the border of the project of the computer screen and the inactive monitor pixels. Try to match the black of the display with the black of the inactive monitor. If you are using a video game. Turn the brightness up and play untill you notice and inactive monitor. These are very frequent with cut scene. You know fade out to black, then fade in to the new round. Unfortunately I don't have any trick for white, except try it in reverse. Turn the nob all the way up. Lower it, and stop at the point which is starts to become darker.

Color

Set Hue and Color to their middle settings.
Get a view of the actual pixels of the screen. Either by using a magnifying glass, sprinkling some water on it, or getting really close.
(This is where the primaries come in.) Each pixel should light up a red, green, and blue light. Tamper with the color nob and notice how it adjusts. Pick an area of a primary and adjust is appropriately, for example a true green area should only be lit with green. Check only true areas and adjust untill satisfied. Green is recommended as a start.
Turn the hue nob all the way down. Turn up the nob to the verge where the colors start to "bleed". Red is the first to do this.

Color
Set Hue and Color to their middle settings. Get a view of the actual pixels of the screen. Either by using a magnifying glass, sprinkling some water on it, or getting really close. (This is where the primaries come in.) Each pixel should light up a red, green, and blue light. Tamper with the color nob and notice how it adjusts. Pick an area of a primary and adjust is appropriately, for example a true green area should only be lit with green. Check only true areas and adjust untill satisfied. Green is recommended as a start. Turn the hue nob all the way down. Turn up the nob to the verge where the colors start to "bleed". Red is the first to do this.

"We're green not blue, adjust your TV." --Hefty Smurf from Cartoon Network

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