Turning up your TV's brightness won't make dark scenes easier to see

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Here's what really works to make shadowy shows more watchable

gave us its biggest battle ever as the humans hoped to fend off a seemingly endless wave of walking dead soldiers. The episode clocked in at more than 90 minutes and all of it took place in the dead of night. As a result, the whole thing was dark—so dark in fact that many viewers took to social media to complain about it and attempted to crank the brightness on their TVs to see what was happening more clearly.

For instance, turning off overhead lights is a great idea largely because it will help fight reflections on your screen. A TV’s glossy surface will reflect light sources that compete with the actual picture, so turning out the lights and trying to get a movie theater-like setting is a good move, but darker isn’t necessarily better.

Typically, there’s a “theatrical” mode or a “neutral” mode that will seem muted when you first select it, but that’s actually what you want if you hope to see everything that’s happening on-screen. Your eyes will eventually adjust and it will seem normal. In fact, the brighter modes will seem wrong and off-putting after a while.

These theatrical modes also typically support high-dynamic range, which you should absolutely enable if your TV offers it. The HDR protocols will attempt to maximize the color, brightness, and contrast. If you want to go the old-school route, you can tweak the settings yourself to your specific input device by getting a calibration disc. Something like the $30 Spears & Munsil HD Benchmark disc will guide you through the process of tweaking your settings to try and get your TV looking as it should.One thing that you can’t fix by tweaking your screen settings, however, is the quality of the actual stream you’re watching.

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