Can't color match monitor and TV

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Hello. I bought a Full HD TV last week, Hyundai FLA32486. For the last couple of days I've been trying to calibrate it, to match my IPS monitor, LG 22EA53. Both displays offer 178° viewing angles, if that makes any difference (TV has probably a TN panel, but I don't notice any color shift when viewed from angles). They are connected via HDMI.

The problem is that I can't quite match all the colors, as TV has colors more on the cool side, while the monitor is somewhere in the middle, more neutral (it's set to Text picture mode, as it offers best balance between colors and neutral grays). For example, if I calibrate the blue and gray colors correctly, skin tones are way off, and vice versa.

I tried using Catalyst Control Center, the settings on the TV itself, and the combination of two, but it didn't help - at least one color doesn't match in each scenario. Red colors do match to a good degree, but blues and grays fight with skin tones and greens. Various ICC profiles don't seem to do any good.

Catalyst offers Hue, Saturation and Pixel Format settings, and TV offers RGB Gain (each color individually), Saturation, Skin Tones (tried it - useless), and Color Shift (shift between red and green).

Does anyone have some advice on how to match the two displays correctly, or I simply have to give up on some colors? Which would you give up - blues or skin tones? I've read somewhere that you can NEVER completely match two displays, even with calibration hardware. Thanks in advance.
 


This is very true. For a while, I had 2 very nice HP IPS panels. Bought at the same time, almost sequential serial numbers, like they came off the assembly line no more than a day or two apart.
A hueyPro calibration device.

Could NOT get them exact, no matter what. Very very close, but never exact.

Now I have 2 x Asus 24". Same thing. Close, but not quite.
 


I will try adjusting the TV using some RGB gamma adjustment tools (which can output ICC profiles), and see if they work when assigned to the TV. But since I already tried adjusting the RGB Gain setting on the TV, I don't expect a miracle.

It's either because of TN panel (regardless of good viewing angles), or a narrow color gamut. But if I had a tool to adjust more color channels than only RGB (for example RGBCMY), then I might get good results. However, since the signal carries only RGB values, I hardly doubt such a tool even exists.