I bought a 22" LG LCD TV (model 22LG30-UA) at Best Buy earlier, and to my utter disappointment, when I got it installed in my entertainment center, I noticed that when a dark scene in a movie cuts in, the contrast on my screen dips way low so that I can barely see the picture. Apparently this has something to do with the Intelligent Eye nonsense they stick on there to adjust to daylight, etc. This feature might work if you didn't have it boxed in an entertainment center (formerly an armoire) like I do.

Anyhoo, after searching forums for hours and spending a fruitless 20 mins of conversation with LG tech support, I finally discovered the fix on my own, thanks to my mad hacking skillz.

***DISCLAIMER***
What I've done involves accessing the hidden service menu and tinkering with a setting that may have other affects I'm not aware of. I've been using it like this for days now, and so far I'm very happy...

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Hold down the Menu button on the top of the TV while simultaneously holding down the Menu button on your remote control for about 10 seconds. A "Enter Passcode" box will appear. The code is all zeros.

2. Strangely, after bringing this menu up (and closing in with the Menu button on the remote), when you bring it up again sometimes it shows an entirely different menu. The menu you'll want has a "Factory Setting" option on it. You can either set this to "on" or "off." I set mine to "on," and after closing the menu, I noticed that the contrast flickering junk was completely gone.

3. If you're like me and you tinkered with the Picture settings to try to mitigate the contrast problem you might want to go to the normal menu and choose "Reset" and start adjusting your picture from scratch.

I hope Google picks up on this fix so that you don't waste the hours I have trying fix this.