Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hi, Kim Commando here. Well, first up, we have your digital life hack. And after that, I'm going to play a call from my weekend national radio show. That shiny new TV, the manufacturer made it look worse on purpose. To earn that Energy Star label, TV's ship dimmed down. It saves power, but the picture looks awful. I'm Kim Commando for Nord Protect. Identity theft strikes every five seconds.
Chapter 2: Why do manufacturers intentionally make TVs look worse?
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Chapter 3: What is the Energy Star label's impact on TV picture quality?
Samsung, LG, TCL, Vizio, Hisense, they've all got it. This adjusts your TV to show the picture exactly how the director's intended. Now, if you can't find it, switch to cinema or movie mode. Then, this is important, turn the sharpness all the way down, not up. High sharpness creates weird halos around everything. One more thing, turn off motion smoothing.
That's a setting that makes movies look like soap operas. Your TV can look way better than it does right now. They just hid it from you. Enter to win a $250 Amazon gift card right now at winfromkim.com. Next up, a call from my weekend show, The Kim Commando Show. Enjoy! Roxy in Los Angeles, California. Hello, Roxy.
Hi, Kim. So excited to chat with you. I'm a first time caller on your show, but I am no stranger to all of your computer expertise because I get all of your emails. And I was actually introduced to you by my father, who
Chapter 4: How can I adjust my TV settings for better picture quality?
had helped me with computer issues and then i noticed he got all of his information from you and you're like dad cut out that middleman exactly and that's what i did and i subscribed myself so i have been doing that for absolute years so thank you for all of the information that you give to people because it's really valuable
Chapter 5: What is filmmaker mode and how does it improve viewing experience?
Oh, you're sweet. Thank you for your kind words. So what's on your mind?
So I had a really interesting situation in a work Zoom meeting. I have always taken screenshots in Zoom. But this time, my administrator said, oh, you are caught. You are caught. I see you took a screenshot. Now, I wasn't on my work company device.
I was on my personal iPad and took the screenshot with my personal phone, not connected to work VPN, did not have my camera on, did not have my microphone on.
Okay.
So how did they know I took a screenshot?
So you're having the Zoom call on your iPad. But you wanted to take a picture of what was on the screen. So instead of hitting the home button and the side button to take a bonafide screenshot that would go on your camera roll, is that you pulled out your phone and you took a photo of the screen. Correct. Okay, and then that's when the admin IT guy says, hey, you're not allowed to do that?
He said, not that it was not allowed. He said, oh, you're caught. I see you have taken a screenshot.
So do you think maybe he saw you hold your camera up? Her mic and camera were off.
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Chapter 6: What settings should I change to avoid motion smoothing effects?
No, my personal camera on the iPad where I was attending the meeting, all that was off. The camera was off. The microphone was off. All of it.
But you were in a company Zoom meeting.
Correct. On a personal iPad. Correct.
Okay, so Zoom must have some admin feature in the background that if somebody takes a screenshot that they get alerted. Even when their camera's off? No, because she's taking a screenshot of the meeting that is happening. It's a company meeting that's being paid for on a company account.
But she used a different device. And on the iPad, the camera and the microphone were off. The only thing I can think of is the camera is off to everyone else. So everyone in a Zoom meeting can't see. But the camera is on to the software. Yes.
So I didn't know that that could happen. And I have taken screenshots of our meetings before, same way, but it's been at least six months to a year ago, maybe. So this is a recent new change. Could be.
It could be a feature that's on Zoom.
Because it wouldn't be hard for them to turn that on.
No, it wouldn't be at all. All they're doing is they're still recording with the camera, but just not feeding that to the meeting.
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