Optimal settings for Sony Bravia TV

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In my case it's a Bravia 8 (model K-55XR80). If you run programs at less than 4k, the picture looks very skewed in its original state. For one thing, the colors are unnatural and the sharpness is so poor that it hurts your eyes after some time. Presumably the pupils in the eyes are constantly trying to focus and produce sharpness, but they can't succeed. I think it can even be unhealthy to watch TV like this for hours on end.

But it doesn't have to be like that. The Bravia 8 is one of the best TVs on the market, with a very good picture, it's just badly adjusted from the factory. This is also confirmed by many HiFi websites. I therefore experimented a bit until I found good settings. I don't know whether everyone finds these so good, as a lot of things can be subjective. You can simply take a photo or make a note of your own settings and then try out these below. For me, these settings are not just a little better, but much better than the factory ones, I can say that for sure.

Optimal Settings for up-to-date firmware

There was a huge software update coming in on 11/15/2024 which changed the picture quality for the worse. The following settings restore it back to high quality. If you did not update your Bravia TV up to now, you can use the settings in the other chapter below. For up-to-date TVs, you can take the following ones.

Last Modification : 11/17/2024

- Picture Mode: Standard
- Brightness: Max
- Contrast: Max (89)
- Gamma: 1
- HDR tone mapping: Gradiation preferred
- Black Level: 50
- Black Adjust: Medium
- Adv. Contrast Enhancer: Medium
- Peak Luminance: Medium
- Color: 55
- Hue: 0
- Live Color: Medium
- Colour Temperature: Neutral
- R-Gain: Max
- G-Gain: Max
- B-Gain: Max
- R-Bias: 0
- G-Bias: 0
- B-Bias: 0
- Color Gamma: 5
- R-Offset: 0
- G-Offset: 0
- B-Offset: 0
- Sharpness 100%
- Random noise reduction: off (Medium)
- Digital noise reduction: off (Medium)
- Motionflow->Mode: Auto
- Cine Motion: High
- Video signal:
--- Colour Space: Auto
--- HDR Mode: Auto
- eArc->Input Size->Original
- Power-on Behavior: Last Input

Bravia TVs before update 2024-11-15

Last Modification : 28.08.2024

• Picture Mode: Standard
• Brightness: Max
• Contrast: 89
• Gamma: 1
• HDR tone mapping: Gradiation preferred
• Black Level: 59
• Black Adjust: Medium
• Adv. Contrast Enhancer: Medium
• Peak Luminance: Medium
• Color: 55
• Hue: 0
• Live Color: Medium
• Color Temperature: Neutral
• R-Gain: Max
• G-Gain: Max
• B-Gain: Max
• R-Bias: 0
• G-Bias: 0
• B-Bias: 0
• R-Offset: 0
• G-Offset: 0
• B-Offset: 0
• Sharpness: 100%
• Random noise reduction: Medium
• Digital noise reduction: Medium
• Motionflow->Mode: Auto
• Film Mode: High
• Video Signal:
  • Color Space: Auto
  • HDR Mode: Auto
• eArc->Input Size->Original
• Power-on behavior: Last Input
  

These settings are still being improved. Perhaps there will be minor improvements later. The above settings are already very good. So far, no one has complained.