TVs and 'Black Level'

Soldato
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It seems to me that both my parents and my cheapish TVs have really dodgey brightness settings, even though one is LG and one is Samsung. I can change the Black Level from low to high and outside of that change the gamma from low, medium high.

The thing is, with low Black Level, the picture is incredibly dark, outside of really bright scenes, but with high Black Level, the blacks just sort of become... Grey. On both TVs

Is this common with cheap TVs? And is there a good way to tweak the settings or find a middle ground between low and high Black Levels?

Mine is an LG 32LS575T - ZD.
 
Its annoying because my old Samsung LCD LE26Bsomething was cheap but was fantastic with colours and Blacks:(

I'll leave the black level on high then (I.e. the least black)
 
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