"Say you recently picked up a shiny new TV. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare to indulge in all its visual glory. You think to yourself, "This is 2025. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what." So you plug it in and don't take one look at the default settings. Big mistake."
"Pretty much all TVs now come with a form of "Eco Mode" turned on by default. Eco Mode is designed to limit power usage by attenuating the TV's brightness and reducing its contrast level. A recent study found that enabling Eco Mode saves as little as $7 a year on your electric bill. (That's literally less than two cents per day.) Whether "eco" is short for economy or ecology, that's not a significant saving, and there are myriad ways to more effectively reduce your carbon footprint."
Many new TVs ship with power-saving defaults that significantly dim the picture and reduce contrast, harming visual quality. Eco Mode reduces brightness and contrast to save only a few dollars per year. Most consumers never change those defaults, even on older sets. On Samsung TVs, users can restore normal brightness by disabling Energy Saving Solution via All Settings > General and Privacy > Power and Energy Saving > Energy Saving Solution. Turning off Eco Mode and brightness optimization returns stronger contrast and better image fidelity, improving the viewing experience for movies and high-contrast content.
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