How To Calibrate Xbox Series S

[Florio Bessinger]

Theprocess, however, is a little complicated and requires digging around in the settings of both your Xbox Series XS console and your TV. If you've been wanting to calibrate your TV for a while, but you were feeling a little intimidated by it, we have written a step-by-step guide to walk you through the process.

Calibrating your TV for your Xbox Series XS involves tweaking your TV's display settings to perfectly suit your Xbox. This includes changing things like your TV's dimensions, brightness, color, contrast, and sharpness so that they are able to work in tandem with your console to bring you the best picture possible.

TVs come with a plethora of different settings, and it can be daunting trying to figure out what exactly they all do. Even if you're not 100% sure what a particular setting does, the TV Calibration tool provides you with suggestions of ideal settings to make the process as simple as possible.

The first step to calibrating your TV is to find and open the TV Calibration tool on your console. You can find this in the TV & display options. Enabling auto HDR on your Xbox Series XS is another setting you can find in this section that will improve your gaming performance even further, but for now, select Calibrate TV.

Press Next to move on to the Brightness page. The first page is a general description of how to set your brightness. You can complete the process here or press Next to see a larger version of the image you need.

The key to getting your perfect brightness level is to create a balance between light and dark. If your brightness is too low, you won't be able to make out objects hidden in dark corners, and if it's too high, your picture could appear blown out during bright scenes.

To set your brightness, head to your Advanced/Expert picture settings once again and press Brightness. First, scroll all the way up so you can see the closed eye. Then, scroll back down again until the closed eye just barely disappears into the darkness.

The last page is your advanced color settings. The idea on this page is to tweak your color settings so each of the blocks on the right is individual, and no colors are bleeding into the neighboring ones. The easiest way to do this is by turning your TV's blue filter on or changing your RGB Only Mode to Blue. This can be found in your Advanced/Expert settings.

Once your TV display is blue, open the Color settings on your TV and adjust it so the blue and white columns on the top look the same. Then scroll to Tint or Hue and adjust it so the pink and cyan columns on the bottom match. Once all the colors are matching, change your RGB filter back to normal and press Done. Your TV will now be perfectly calibrated to your Xbox Series XS.

There are plenty more settings to explore on your Xbox Series XS to make sure it is providing you with the best gaming experience possible. Boosting the FPS on your Xbox Series can give you an even better performance, and there are also a series of sound settings to optimize on your Xbox Series XS so your sound quality can match that of your display.

I am gaming at 120hz on series x and I have hdr and vrr both enabled in xbox settings but hdr is not showing up on the tv icon in tv home page only the vrr and in game the hdr adjustments are greyed out. At 60hz everything functioned as it should but the picture looked like ***** just very drowned out like there was a fog or a haze. The picture looks amazing at 120 hz but it does not seem like the hdr is enabled

Old post, I know. Is this the Q70 or Q70R? Not the Q70T or Q70A (2020 and 2021 models respectively)? HDMI 2.0 limits you to 4K 60hz or 1440p 120hz, one or the other. HDR also requires a 4K display signal, because of the smaller pipeline that is 1440p 120hz mode. I've tried, I got a Q70R myself.

Also, you must calibrate the TV picture settings separately for both SDR (8-bit) and HDR (10-bit) modes. Follow the calibration guides in the Xbox's display settings, and in "video fidelity and overscan" settings.. color depth should be set to 8-bit, and color space set to Standard (also make sure TV's HDMI Black Level is set to Low or Auto, it must match what the console is putting out.)

I have the exactly same issue. my XSX runs 120 hz on my Samsung Q70A (2021 model), but the HDR is greyed out. In the game, like Elden Ring, the HDR is greyed out too. I tried replaced the original HDMI cable with a new a really fancy and expensive one ordered from Amazon, supporting 4K @144 hz with 48 gbps bandwidth. The HDR is still greyed out. I also tried calibrate the TV with HDR and SDR.

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