Guide to calibrate your 2021 LG OLED TV (A1, B1, C1 and G1)

When our brand new OLED arrives, the same thing always happens: the rush makes us configure the TV in any way and we don’t even check that our panel is not defective, making the mistake of leaving the TV in the image mode that comes by default (Standard normally) which is a tremendous mistake. It’s normal, nothing happens: the anxiety can us.

We recommend that you “waste” a little time in configuring it in the best possible way and for that we are here, to help you in the process. It is known that most panels are in a standard range of nits, color and gamma, so we are going to start with the best possible image modes out of the box and then each one can modify them to taste, adding from here, subtracting from there , raising this or that value a little bit, but always keeping to certain values ​​«base«.

What does each option on my TV do?

Taking advantage of this space, we are going to see little by little what each option does and then we will summarize the best settings and image modes for each type of content (SDR, HDR, DTT, Consoles, PC, etc.) in a table that you will find at the end of the article in addition to the video that accompanies this news. As he commented, before we are going to explain what each option does so that you, after seeing the table, decide whether or not you want to activate any of them. Without further ado, here we go. First we will have to click on the image mode that we want and then click on Advanced settingswhere we can see:

To configure the picture modes, it will be necessary to go back into Advanced settingswhere we will find three sections: Brightness, Color and Clarity. we will start with Brightness:

Okay, we’ll press back and now it’s the turn of the section of Colour:

Well, to finish we go back and go to the last section, the one with Clarity:

The best Settings for your LG OLED

And with this we finish the explanations of what each option does. Now comes the summary, that is, which options to activate and which ones not and which value to put on each one of them depending on the content that we put on it (it is not the same to put the PS4 as a UHD player). As we said at the beginning of the article, take this as a base on which you can touch up with your own tastes. In HDR and SDR, the options that are closest to the image reference measured with a probe have been set. The values ​​for DTT can be ignored, since by not broadcasting with a standard, we can put the values ​​that we like the most, I have left you some recommended ones but you can change them:

SDR and DTT modes

HDR modes

Gaming modes

With these simple steps you will be able to have your TV configured quite precisely, without going into professional probes and spectrophotometers, but at least you will be using a fairly correct base. To achieve higher accuracy, it is necessary to hire a professional probe calibration service.

* Rename the HDMI input to “PC” to get full 4:4:4 chroma key.