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Finding a TV’s Breaking Points

Video calibration discs were so prevalent in the DVD and Blu-ray era that any self-respecting videophile probably had at least three in his or her disc collection. For a minor investment, you could dial in your display’s brightness, contrast, color, tint, and sharpness settings to a respectable degree without having to drop $500 on a professional calibration.

In the UHD era, though? To call such discs a rarity would be an understatement. Samsung released an HDR10 Reference disc back in 2016, but it would only play in the company’s own UBD-K8500 UHD Blu-ray player and

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