Adjusting video color settings on your display
I love my laptop HP Pavilion dv2000. I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed on it and every time I want to watch a movie I connect it to my big flat TV monitor and run the Media Center application (sometimes I just run the Media Player only).
While connecting my laptop to other TVs, I’ve noticed that on some of them the played video was darker than it was supposed to be (maybe because the TV was old 
). In this case I was adjusting the brightness of the player itself. Unfortunately Media player did not save the setting so I had to do it manually each time I wanted to watch a movie.
I was suffering like this for a while until I’ve stumbled upon the feature in NVIDIA Control panel (the graphics in my laptop is by NVIDIA). It enables users to adjust the video color settings that will allow to fine tune the color settings for video content on the display.
How to configure it
- Open the NVIDIA Control Panel (within Windows Control Panel or right click on empty place on Desktop and choose it from the menu list).
- Expand the Video & Television item on the right side of the menu tree
- Click on the Adjust video color settings
- On the right side of the window select your TV monitor for step 1.
- For step 2 select the second option named With the NVIDIA settings
Now you can adjust the brightness of the video so it will be played in natural colors. It is recommended to use the sliders while watching a movie so the result will be seen immediately.
I was very happy to discover this feature and I hope it will be helpful to you as well.
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