The Picture menu features three preset modes (standard, vivid, and mild) and a custom mode for advanced tweaking. Options include brightness, color, contrast, sharpness, and color temperature controls. Out of the box, the tint control is locked and works only if you're using an analog signal--not a digital signal. Sceptre recently released a firmware update that corrects this problem, so you'll have to download and manually update the firmware in order to use the tint control for a digital signal (you'll need to do an 'All Reset' on the TV to initialize the firmware upgrade).

On the Picture menu you'll also see advanced picture settings, including dynamic contrast, film mode (this could be considered another preset), and noise reduction. The Sound menu is fairly simple, and offers basic bass/treble/balance controls, as well as a simulated surround-sound mode and an equalizer.

The Parental option is a lock mode that allows you to set a PIN code to prevent TV settings from being changed. The Setup menu lets you choose the menu languages and set the clock, while the Others menu permits you to set the background color (the color that will show on the blank screen if no input signal is available) to blue or black, as well as to reset the TV's settings to factory default.

In our , the Sceptre E420BV-F120 performed slightly below average. The set itself appears to be poorly made--a lot of light leaks around the screen, and a solid, quarter-inch bar of leakage is visible at the top of the screen.

The E420BV-F120 was just average on our basic 720p and 1080i clips, and received a score of around 3 out of 5 for all four of these clips. The TV did pretty well on our horizontal-motion panning test, with a score of 4 out of 5. Unfortunately, the set performed badly on our diagonal-motion panning test, receiving a score of 2 out of 5.