should I Calibrate my tv or just leave it the way it is..

the sale person at best buy said to me I should.

You should adjust the picture settings yourself to make sure it looks good to your eyes. Don't pay anybody else to do it.

TVs are adjusted to look good on the showroom floor. When you get the TV to your house, the settings need to be adjusted to match the ambient lighting conditions of your room. There's a great DVD you can get for about $20 from Amazon called Digital Video Essentials. It'll help you calibrate it much in the same way a professional does.

IN the meantime, you can set your LCD to Movie, that'll get you about 60% there.

thanks everyone for your answers.

I'm so tired of this calibration crap. I guess if you're a 90 year old person who doesn't know the first thing about how to make a tv picture look decent, it's helpful..(and no offense to the elderly... I'm just saying..) but otherwise, just freakin play with it yourself and use your "eyes" for God's sake! I bought a top of the line Samsung a few weeks ago and thought about the calibration... and I actually did several tests using one of the more popular instructional DVD's and come to find out, the settings I had already chosen turned out to be perfect already. As far as rooms go, either you got a brightly lit (you have the freakin lights on) or it's night time..(or you have the lights off and the shades drawn). In my opinion, the manufacturers should make the sets having the best picture quality already set....with the option of minor adjustments...for movies or sports, etc... When we buy the TV, we're not then supposed to "finish" manufacturing the TV!! We're paying for the best possible picture already and not to have to keep messing with it trying to "fix" it again! There is no reason you should have to pay an extra $300 just to get a better picture. It should come that way. As the purchasing consumer, it's not our responsibility to finish building the TV. .. or paying someone else to finish the building process (talking about calibration of course). Companies will do anything they can to get your money, it's rediculous. I'm all for paying for a higher end set. I absolutely fell in love with my Samsung and it's certainly worth the money. Just play with the settings for a little and see what works best for you. I get tired of experts saying the turn the sharpness down. I tried turning mine down and it makes the picture so blurry and soft...a huge difference. There probably are some artifacts with it turned all the way up like I have it... but I don't care because I can't see them... except for maybe in a test. The picture looks 100% better to me with the sharpness turned all the way up. ... same for the contrast. If you don't want the advantage of the lcd tv's then just buy a 20 year old CRT for crying out loud. If you want to get the best picture you can possibly get, keep the color temp around the 6500k and use what looks normal to you. It's not as hard as everyone makes it out to be.. and never ever have your tv professionally calibrated.

First of all The Calibrating your talking about Can Not be Done With your REMOTE. Do some Research and find out what actually is done when someone Comes out to your house and Calibrates it.
Ask yourself, Why do they hook up there Machine to the SERVICE Port that is installed on the TV?
There not adjusting the the ON SCREEN MENU Settings. There going to Circuit and telling that HOW TO ACT. If you want to Calibrate it yourself the same way you'll need to purchase the tool to do so. You can Not get your TV Calibrated like this Machine does. This is not a Gimmick. Go Inside bestbuy and take a Look at the Highend Tv selection. then walk out to the main floor and look at all the other TV. When Sony or samsung or Panasonic put there TV in a Box they sent it on its way with the Bell and whistle Program installed. Why can you Take TWO of the Same MODEL TV's exactly alike and pull them out of the box brand new and why dont they look the same?
Get the Calibration done after you've Tweaked your TV till you cant see straight. Then after months of that have a pro come and set it up for you. As he does it watch what he does. His cool little toy and Laptop just humming away.