The tweaker’s guide

We invariably find, even on the most premium of TVs, that the default settings for the picture need a few tweaks. Here’s our guide to getting the best from this LG 65EF950T.

First, wind the ‘Sharpness’ control down to zero. This smoothes the picture. (The sharpness control was on by default even when playing UHD material!)

Also, there is a particularly silly default aspect ratio of 16:9 when playing 1080p material. That employs a bit of overscan, scaling up the picture slightly and thereby surrendering the preferred 1:1 pixel mapping (actually, 1:4 on a 4K set) from input to screen. You’ll have to go into the set-up menu to fix this, but it’s easy enough — just change the aspect ratio to ‘Just Scan’. This change sticks, so you’ll only have to do it the once for each input. On UHD signals ‘Just Scan’ was chosen automatically.

The only remaining change was to bump up the ‘Contrast’ control from 95 to 100. On test patterns, full white was distinctly darker than ‘whiter than white’. That adjustment fixed that.

The end result of those changes was the glorious picture we’ve come to expect of an LG OLED TV.