Samsung LE40M86BD Picture settings

We’re getting a fair bit of traffic looking for the ideal picture settings for the LE40M86BD of late so I thought I’d do a little research and see what I could find. I don’t own this TV so these aren’t verified personally but they do come from reliable sources. Many thanks to HDTVTest and the AVforums for these.

Hi Def Settings through HDMI:
Mode: Movie Size: Just Scan
Contrast: 90 Digital N/R: Off
Brightness: 50 Active Colour: Off
Sharpness: 30 DNIe: Off
Colour: 51 Move Plus: Off
Tint: 50    
Colour Tone: Warm2    
Backlight: 1*    
 
Detailed Settings White Balance
Black Adjust: Off R-offset: 17
Dynamic Contrast: Off G-offset: 15
Gamma: -1 B-offset: 11
Edge Enhancement: Off R-Gain: 4
Colour Space: Wide G-Gain: 14
xVYCC: On B-Gain: 30
 
Standard Definition Settings Through RGB Scart.
Mode: Movie Size: 16:9
Contrast: 70 Digital N/R: Off
Brightness: 44 Active Colour: Off
Sharpness: 26 DNIe: Off
Colour: 52 Move Plus: Off
Tint: 50    
Colour Tone: Normal    
Backlight: 4    
 
Detailed Settings White Balance
Black Adjust: Low R-offset: 15
Dynamic Contrast: Off G-offset: 14
Gamma: 0 B-offset: 13
Edge Enhancement: Off R-Gain: 10
Colour Space: Wide G-Gain: 18
xVYCC: Off B-Gain: 12

Please note that these settings are subjective and dependent upon your ambient lighting arrangement as well as quality of source signal. As such they should be considered a good place to start tweaking to suit your viewing environment. If you have any settings that might improve on these then feel free to post them in the comments section.

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