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Sadly, if you want the perfect picture, its not that easy.

Tip #1.

The Philadelphia Eagles playing the Kansas City Chiefs on a big-screen TV.

It gives the most accurate colors, which means no toxic-looking grass or over-saturated jersey colors.

That said, you might notice a yellowish hue that wasnt there before.

Dont worry, were going to fix that next.

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Tip #2.

But sepia can make sports look like theyre being viewed through a cooler of yellow Gatorade.

Play around with both to see which one looks better to your eyes.

Roku motion smoothing setting in menus on TV

Tip #3.

Re-enable some motion smoothing configs

You’ve probably heard that all motion smoothing is bad.

The key word here, however, is “some.”

The Dialogue Boost settings in the Audio menu shown during an episode of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.

Go into the advanced motion tweaks on anyGoogle, Tizen orLGTV and change the motion smoothing tweaks to custom.

Reduce judder to the lowest setting, but set blur reduction up to its highest tweaks.

Blur reduction reduces ghosting that can occasionally pop up when the ball is moving through the air.

TCL QM8 on wall in living room

Judder attempts to stabilize fast-moving scenes by adding interstitial frames.

This sounds like a good thing, but in practice it makes people look plasticky.

I always turn it off.

TCL QM7 Mini-LED TV with deals tag

Tip #4.

Sharpness essentially helps define the edges of objects on a TV.

After upping the sharpness, the last picture setting you gotta play around with is brightness.

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My main piece of advice is not to go overboard with the brightness.

Tip #5.

Set sound mode to Dialogue or use a sound boosting technology

I know, another counterintuitive suggestion.

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With that, your TV should be all tuned up and ready for Super Bowl LIX.

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