Alvin

A guy bought a $1,500 Samsung TV 3 years ago. He watched Netflix. He watched YouTube. He thought the picture looked fine. He assumed that's just what a TV looks like. His friend, a home theater installer who calibrates TVs for a living, walked into his apartment and looked at the screen for 5 seconds. "You're watching everything in demo mode. The motion smoothing is on. The eco dimmer is cutting your brightness by 40%. Your TV is taking a screenshot of your screen every 30 seconds and selling your viewing data to advertisers. And you're watching a $1,500 panel in the same picture mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent lights to make TVs pop on a showroom wall." He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes. The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. The TV stopped spying on him. Here's every setting he changed 🧵