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I just picked up a new LG 70UK 65 70″ UHD TV from Costco the other day. While I am really pleased with the picture when I was watching one of my favorite shows on Netflix (Like The Office) I noticed it made it look like I was watching a soap opera. It was hard to put my finger on what the settings were doing to the picture. The best way to describe it is that it made it look like a Soap Opera. I have had this issue in the past when I bought a Samsung so I started drilling through the LG menu to find the setting to change.

LG 70UK65 Soap Opera fix –

Here is the setting that I needed to turn off to fix it  “TruMotion”

The for reference full model number for my TV is 70UK6570AUB

To turn off the TruMotion setting:

Go into Settings (Gear Icon on Remote)

Then go to the bottom and choose “More settings”

Now your menu is on the left side of your screen. Chose “Picture” then highlight “Picture Mode Settings” and click it. (NOTE: You would need to do this for each picture setting, as it does not appear to be a global change. So do it on the setting you are going to be using. For me this was the standard setting.)

Now scroll down towards the bottom and chose “Picture Options”

Once in the picture options menu you will find lots of features. The one I turned off to fix the Soap Opera issue was TruMotion. Just click on it and chose OFF, then you can back out of the menu.

Here you can see I had it turned off now.

With the TruMotion effect turned off I am finding the LG 70UK65 TV to be a real pleasure to watch. One other setting that in my opinion needed changed on the 70UK65 is “LED Local Dimming”.  This setting change helped to fix the vertical light banding when watching at night or in a dark room that I was seeing. Here is the post I did for more info on that issue here.

I am still fine tuning my settings on the 70UK65 and plan to post them when I am done in case anyone finds them helpful. I realize settings are subjective but still just wanted to share. Some people may like the “TruMotion” settings. But for those that do not I hope you enjoyed my LG 70UK65 Soap Opera fix post.

Also if you are looking for some indirect lighting for your home while watching TV, I just recently reviewed these LED light strips which I am using in my Kitchen. They have turned out to be great for movie night. Here is a link to them if you want to check them out Miheal LED light strings. You can see the review here for them.

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I am pretty sure this setting change will also fix the LG vertical light banding problem for other models.

I just picked up a new LG 70UK 65 70″ UHD TV from Costco the other day. While I am really pleased with the picture during the daytime, when I turn the TV on at night to watch a movie I had some disappointment with the LG vertical light banding moving around in dark scenes.

This is not a full review of the LG 70UK6570AUB, which I will try to do soon after I have more time with the TV, but I want to quickly share the settings to remove that annoying light banding when watching at night or in a dark room. I am pretty sure this light banding problem is annoying others as well, in the reviews I saw someone mentioned that it can not be fixed. But there are some settings you can use that really help even it out and look better and less distracting.

Keep in mind this is not an OLED TV so you will not get the same black picture quality of an OLED, but I find removing this vertical banding really helped me to more enjoy movies with dark scenes.

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LG Vertical Light banding FIX

Here is what I am going to fix. Its this vertical light banding (Sorry if my terminology is wrong here) you can see in this picture. As you have a bright object on the screen with a black background, the backlit LEDs seem to light up in a vertical pattern up the whole height of the tv. Even if your image is at the very bottom you see the vertical backlight just lighting up for that section from the bottom to the top. As your bright image moves across the screen this vertical lighting also moves back and forth with it.

This is super annoying if you have a lot of movement of a small image on a large black background. I am not sure if this is due to the backlit LEDs not being lit on the edge only, but here is the fix to turn this feature off.

Setting Changes

First open your menu by clicking the ear icon on your remote and scroll to the very bottom on the right and click on “All Settings”

This will open the settings on your left side of your screen.

Go to Picture  -> Picture Mode settings on the menu.  In the example below I am going to change the settings for Standard picture. You can change this for each picture mode individually. ( I think I might fine tune my set up and have one mode for Daytime viewing and one for Night time, but for now I am happy after making the changes below. )

Click on the standard Picture mode setting above to drill down into the “Picture mode Settings” menu. Then scroll down to “Picture Options” which will be towards the every bottom and probably off your screen initially.

Click into “Picture Options” and this will bring you into the picture options menu.

To turn off the LG Vertical light banding I described above scroll down to the “LED Local Dimming” option and turn it OFF.

Once I turned off this feature I no longer saw the LG Vertical light banding. The backlighting is even and stays on. My camera is making the blacks look worse then they really are in this picture, but you can see the back lighting is now even. At this point I did go and adjust the backlight and brightness to make the black a bit blacker. but did not snap a picture after those changes. I have the backlight at 87% right now, and the brightness scaled down to around 80% but still doing some fine tuning for my likes.

SUMMARY

I hope this helped you if you were also looking for a LG vertical light band fix to improve your LG TV image quality. I was not having luck searching the net so decided to do this post after figuring it out.  I am still making adjustments to other settings as well and will post my final settings I end up with in case anyone finds it helpful.

Here is a link to the LG website for the specs and more info on this model. : LINK

This concludes my post for the 70UK65 LG Vertical Light banding fix. If you are looking for some great background lighting for your room for watching TV at night, I just recently reviewed these LED strips and really liked them. You can see my review here if your interested. They put off a nice indirect light in the room for us.

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