Take a trip to the TV aisle of any brick-and-mortar retail shop and you’re bound to see some dazzling pictures. All TVs — from the ultra-affordable to the best TVs you can buy — arrive with a slew of settings enabled by default, and most of them are designed to make the picture look as good as possible under the harsh fluorescent lighting of a big-box store.
The problem is, filmmakers and teams of artists work at length to light, color-correct and edit scenes. Many of these default settings dramatically alter the look and feel of a creator’s work.
