As Thiago said use the Standard setting.
Then get one of those color bars test discs (like A Video Standard or the Avia Home Theater disc (in a pinch use the THX thing but it's instructions are a leeettle off in the black level thing
) and adjust the TV black level (brightness) white level (contrast) chroma/saturation (color) hue/phase (tint) and sharpness with that.
Of course, make sure first your DVD player (if it has different adjustable settings too) is set to Standard too (Some players let you adjust things and then youre chasing your own tail)
As general rules after everything is set to standart, if you don't have test discs,
on your TV adjust brightness to where black bars are truuuue black (No light coming out of them), contrast where dashing whites are not hurtful at night or dont make the image go out of focus (it's called "blooming" in CRTubes), color & tint where most skin tones look pleasing, and sharpness you back down till it's blurry then turn it back up slowly till it looks sharp from your sitting position but you don't see edge enhancement on objects edges. (If you see edge enhancement clearly, you kinda overdid it
)
write down the original settings and the final ones in case you want to go back to where you started
About the color temperature usually is the warm one (the less bluish)
If in doubt about which is the most grey/neutral color temp setting, just put a true b/w DVD on (or a grey pattern on test discs) and wait one day till it's totally grey overcast skies and then that day (with lights turned off inside
) and looking at the grey sky and then to the TV chose the color temperature setting that looks greyest (less blue or red, just grey) in that overcast light. The technical term is Daylight 6,504 degrees Kelvin (D65 for short ). You get more or less that grey when the skies are ovescast grey
My CLEAR EDGE VM, and my DRC MODE??
err can you unacronize those acronims?
or say what the manual says they're for?
i usually leave any auto weirdo thing off. what are those for?
And if you do what Thiago suggested of checking advance service modes, proceed with caution or not at all if you don't know what you're doing; you could disconfabulate the TV and not know how to get it back to normal, So write down everything and again proceed with caution. If you have any question about that you can ask.
Before you start playing with those