My parents claim that they can’t tell when it’s on. But then again, they also enabled the setting that would stretch any letterboxed content to fill the whole screen…

Our parents grew up watching a shoebox sized screen you could hear turn on from the yard outside. They can tolerate a lot of things that would send newer generations up a wall.

their generation was also told that getting a “big screen TV” was a status symbol, so picture size (not quality) is the only/primary metric

oh, that thing that makes every movie look like a soap opera?

yes, and generally calibrating them from in-store settings of everything turned up to 11