Why do TVs have to be calibrated to look good?

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Just bought a new TV and I just don’t understand this. So many TVs come out of the box looking so very crappy. So many junk settings like motion smoothing that make things look unnatural. You have to spend a ton of time with the picture settings to make it look good.

You don’t have to calibrate your iPhone screen. Everything just looks correct. Why do TVs not just “look correct” out of the box and not even need any picture settings?

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Things like motion smoothing are entirely down to taste–I’m sure there are people reading your comment who would be quite sad if they couldn’t have that on their TV. Why would you want to deprive them of it just because you don’t personally like it? Same applies to pretty much any other picture setting a TV offers–they’re there because everyone is different and has different tastes in what their TV viewing experience should be.

As for why an iPhone *doesn’t* offer that, you’d have to ask Apple, but since we’re talking a company who said “You’re holding it wrong” when a misdesigned phone aerial caused all sorts of reception issues, I imagine the answer would be “because we’re right and everyone else is wrong”.