I mostly have the sound part figured out, I put the Sound Mode set on Speech and it works pretty good, it’s the picture part that we just plug and play…
I did ask my son and he said he messes with the picture setting, he is a gamer, so I might have him check our TV out to see if it’s already optimal, or if room for a better picture…
Me, only so much my tiny brain can comprehend and I chose Automotive stuff to fill it with, all this other stuff is Greek to me… lol
Selecting a picture mode is easy:
Press the Settings/Menu/gear icon, to bring up settings.
Use the <>v directional arrows to navigate to Picture.
Use the same directionals to navigate to Picture mode, press the center button in the middle of the arrows, then select a mode (Movie and Filmmaker are usually the most accurate).
(sorrry for all the misspellings - my iPad for some reason has a 10 second lag between typing and the words appearing on the screen!)
I type it, then watch the letters appear one by one like a ghost is typing. I think it’s a signal issue because this tablet has 12gig free out of 64.
Same issue here. Even the automatic volume settings can’t compensate most of the time. What works for me are a set of Bluetooth headphones. The over the ear kind (very comfortable) with noise cancelling. I can watch an action movie in bed with the sound blasting and no one can hear it except me. And the sound quality is amazing with quality headphones…
I used to scour the operator’s manuals, learn about every feature, every detail and spend time messing around. As I have gotten older, I do less and less of that. Just enough to get it running and useful. My kid has taken over the tinkering and fine tuning duties 
TV’s seem to come with default video set to maximum white, eye roasting intensity. We turned on the new 85" and it looked like we had captured the sun in our living room. One instance where I looked how to set it to cinema mode to avoid retinal damage 
I imagine a hockey puck looks like a frisbee on that thing… 
Simple solution - go find a 17” Trinitron!
Took a few times to find it, and it was set on Low Power, so we changed it over to Movie, made it look to filtered, but then we tried the Roku Smart Picture and it seems to look way better, very crisp/sharp… Thanks…
Great, now I might have to go back and rewatch Avatar and a few others… 
Movie or Filmmaker Modes are the closest to accurate your set can get, prior to full calibration.
All or most internal processing are disabled, allowing whatever source you’re watching to pass through largely unaltered. Whether it’s the news or sports on TV, a Bluray disc, or stream, you’ll see mainly the original content, as produced.
Just fiddle with the Backlight if you need it a little brigher.
I used to watch my TVs in Vivid or Dynamic modes, until I spoke to some movie industry insiders.
What I find funny is that when you first upgrade, the new set looks enormous. Then, after only a few short weeks, it looks normal again. I found one of our older sets tucked away and could not believe we were watching that puny 55" screen in the living room just a few years prior
When HDTVs first came out, 40” was ‘huge’, such a big change from the 25” tube TVs. We waited a while and got that 56” DLP set, great pic as long as you were pretty much in line with it.
And, for the benefit of those who long for the CRT TVs of The Good Old Days, let us not forget about the fairly-frequent need to adjust the Vertical Hold. But, that wasn’t too bad when compared to the dreaded Horizontal Hold.
There were some CRT sets that were very prone to frequent Horizontal Hold issues.
And sometimes you weren’t even in control of those:
By the 1980s-1990s, worrying about H/V-hold was no longer an issue.
I remember around 1998ish when we bought our 1st big screen, beforehand we were just happy with what we had, then we went over to the bil’s who always had the latest and greatest electronics at the time, we were amazed at his 48" big screen and DVD player and we went out to Electronic Express and bought the best at the time 50" with the amazing 480p picture as well as the top of the line (single) DVD player… IIRC it weighed in at 255 pounds… lol
I think the washer and dryer was easier to move up/down steps…
It went out once and we had a TV repairman come out to repair it, cost like $120.00 in the mid 2005ish time frame, good as new again until it was just to out of date to do much with anymore…
Now we just buy throw away TV’s… HDTV looks good enough… 
Hopefully, your local or county government has an Electronics Recycling facility. A few times each year, I go to the one of the ones run by my county, and it’s amazing to see how many small appliances, TVs, and other electronic devices are there.
Our local city dump has all kinds of different containers to put in the many different recyclables, then they send it to wherever it needs to go… I’m guessing anyway, it could all end up in one place anyway for all I know…
We have a Monday-Saturday hazardous waste facility where you can drop off paint, oil, pesticides, and electronics. But, I bet 90+% of people just put it into their regular household trash. When unloading some trash, I even pointed out hazardous waste someone had dropped off, whether she did anything about it, I do not know.
Our police station has a collection box for unused prescriptions but again many get flush or thrown into the trash.
Ours is only Wed morning and Sat afternoon (or vise a versa) for a few hours a day, bit of a pain…
Our old house (next city over) picked up trash twice a week and I swear you could throw a body in the yard by the road and they would clean it up…
They changed trash companys and now they only pick up once a week and even though a little pickier, they still pick up almost anything…
The only thing I found they would not pick up was pallets, said the nails could cut the hydraulic hoses… So I just broke them down and threw them in the cans… lol
Our sanitation department has a facility that accepts hazardous waste drop-offs on saturday- and sunday mornings
You drive there with your junk, verbally say what you’ve got and they don’t ask too many questions, the main one being what’s your zip code
Homeowners do show their ID because there is no charge. Our landfill has multiple areas, an area for yard waste/tree trimmings, another for appliances, the household is the worst for me, I have a small utility trailer that is hard to see, and I have lost my backing skills
, I used to back boats down the launch ramp with no problem. Hazardous waste is in a different area, employees verify the type of waste. Though only about five miles away, it is on a heavily traveled two lane road. One of the reasons I no longer change my own oil.
As far as the road, FDOT should have four laned it 20 years ago. They knew that Walmart, FedEx, and Amazon were building warehouse hubs on the road, a huge truck/auto stop, plus the “garbage trucks” going to the landfill and now high density housing, condos&apartments, going in.
Ha, our city dump, it’s not a land fill, they require an ID and they take your address cause you are billed for it, added to the monthly water bill…