I would, if I thought it would make a difference. It won't.
I just bought a new 2022 model flagship television, and its colour management is very visibly broken![1] My partner, who knows nothing about colour standards mentioned that she thought the colours were "off" within minutes of using it.
This is the good brand and model according to reviews. I've seen the other brands in the store, and they're markedly worse.
Like... stupidly bad. Garish beyond belief. People looking like they're wearing clown makeup. Normal colours looking like neon tubes.
Are most people colour blind? Am I weird? Did I marry someone equally weird?
Or is it a mistake to just say: red = 0xFF0000, commit the code, and call it a day?
It's probably just me. Never mind.
[1] Unless I connect an Apple TV to it, on which nothing is broken. It's amazing that only one company on this planet is able to comprehend colour. Every other organisation, propriety limited, corporation, and charity is staffed entirely by colourblind people or robots that see only black and white.
Check your TV's settings. Most, if not all, TVs ship in some sort of display demo mode that jacks up the contrast and sharpness and does all kinds of horrible things to make it stand out in the environment of a show floor. On Samsung, it's called "Dynamic" last I knew, but other euphemisms are used by the other manufacturers. I call it "Claw Your Eyes Out Mode", but that's obviously just me.
Generally if you tune your TV to any other "mode" as a base mode, you'll get much better colors. At first it'll look dull next to Claw Your Eyes Out Mode, but stick with it a bit and your eyes will rapidly come to appreciate not being clawed out.
You can also generally find suggested settings for your TV from people who calibrate them with professional tools. You'll see them also say you shouldn't just take them directly because your TV may be different, but from my point of view, the upgrade from CYEOM to "calibrated based on the same model even if it is a different instance" is probably about 99% of the upgrade you can expect and I don't consider the remaining single-percent upgrades that may be theoretically possible to be worth the effort required.
I tend to like “game mode”, where the TV does as little processing it can só the image is minimally delayed. It also has the side effect the TV doesn’t try to “improve” anything.
> This is the good brand and model according to reviews
Any half-decent review should mention both out-of-the-box colors and "calibrated" colors, or colors in different modes.
Its kinda open secret that the default modes and settings of TVs are absolute bullshit. Most "good" TVs can be adjusted to decent color reproduction (albeit not always without compromises).
It feels like the tide might be turning; stuff like "Filmmaker Mode(tm)" is popping up, and generally people are becoming more aware of the stuff. But that is not without its downsides, just recently there was a story about how big-box stores are price gouging unaware consumers with their "calibration" services that they are very aggressively selling with TVs.
Garishness on new TVs also comes from the "soap opera effect", caused by motion smoothing, which is enabled on every new TV I've seen (and which tends to reset itself every few months on my home TV). Turning that off makes everything so much better.
Moving pictures can look strange (juddery) on LCD/OLED TVs without either a little motion smoothing or black frame insertion. They were made to be shown on a flickering projector after all.
Also, you see people saying "motion smoothing needs to be turned off to respect the artist's intent" but have you seen what those people get up to? It's like a moral obligation to disrespect them.
I can't even tell the difference between the color settings on my phone or TV. I am not colorblind, I pass those tests. I think maybe I have spent so much time staring at screens in my life that my brain has internalized rgb.
One of the most enlightening things for me long ago was trying to write a converter between wavelength and rgb value. It led to all the right questions.
Ultimately I still dont understand color perception. It is hideously complex. But also so fascinating. The mothers of colorblind men are often tetrachromatic. I really wonder what TV's look like to them, since they assume 3 normal frequency responses.
The problem with the color balance on most TVs is that the red channel has been turned way up. The reason manufacturers do this is it makes the picture stand out when TVs are displayed in a big line. A properly balanced TV looks bland in comparison. And most people don’t realize this and have just gotten used to the way things look.
There are other things to do, but usually just turning down red significantly gets you a lot of the way there for minimal effort.
Look up the correct settings on https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews and set those, it'll be fine. Or watch everything in Dolby Vision, which should already be right.
If you didn't buy an LG OLED, I also recommend returning it and getting one of those.
