Is it worth calibrating your TV? A guest appearance from our editorial team!

Calendar 11/10/2025

TV calibration under the microscope! See what professional tuning really does and whether the difference is worth the price.

The premiere of a new film created in collaboration with the "Technology Channel"! This time we are tackling the topic you ask about most often after buying a TV: does calibration make sense, when and for whom is it worthwhile – and how much does it actually help. The representative of our editorial team is the founder Maciej Koper, with 15 years of experience in display calibration – from home TVs to post-production studios (yes, we calibrated twice at Netflix's headquarters in the Netherlands).

What will you see in the movie?

  • what a professional TV calibration process looks like step by step,

  • image comparison before and after calibration on an OLED TV,

  • differences between Movie, Standard, and Game modes,

  • how calibration affects colors, black levels, HDR, and blue light,

  • true customer stories – from calibrations in homes to… the headquarters of Netflix,

  • answers to the most common questions: when calibration makes sense, whether it's worth it in a cheap TV, how often it needs to be repeated, and why manufacturers deliberately don't set TVs perfectly.

You will also learn how the calibration for movies differs from that for gamers, how to choose the "day/night" profile, and whether it is possible to add such a service when buying a TV, for example, at Media Expert.

Finally — live effect: you will see how much the picture changes after calibration and if the difference is really worth the price.

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Katarzyna Petru

Journalist, reviewer, and columnist for the "ChooseTV" portal