In case you need them: Toshiba 26HF85 default service mode settings.

[klover]

I spent hours scouring the net for these - never found any - so I went to a Best Buy today, begged for the remote and a pen and stood in front of the demo set and recorded the defaults. They had to have a manager "watch" me as they were concerned this was an attempt to steal a replacement remote :)

Of course, each set is individually configured at the factory but these default settings should get you back to a workable (if not satisfactory) image in the event you toggled them without recording your defaults (like the author did).

I've left out the descriptors for each setting as the service menu numbers and corresponding settings are all you need. I've also skipped a small chunk of settings that simply establish the top, centre and bottom end of things like brightness and contrast (i.e., settings that only affect how high/low you can set the basic menu items - nothing important).

Anyway, I hope these help.

1. N/A (this is the setting that makes a red line appear)
2. 82
3. 1
4. 38
5. 46
6. 25
7. 4
8. 3
9. 31
10. 0
11. 33
12. 0
13. 15
14. 40
15. 12
16. 47
17. 18
18. 12
19. 16
20. 15
21. 7
22. 8
23. 128
24. 95
25. 126
26. 64
27. 74
28. 79
29. 112
30. 139
31. 64
32. 70
33. 88
34. 60
35. 113
36. 64
37. 86
38. 70
39. 8
40. 3
41. 5
42. 0
52. 13

[DentalGuy]

A few words of caution:

This list does not include all of the settings. That's because with many of these Toshiba models, some of the settings related to the size, shape, and position of the picture have distinct values for each of the 5 zoom modes (Natural, 3 stretches, and full).

Which value you see and are adjusting all depends on which zoom mode the TV was in when you went to the service menu. There is no indication whether the setting is shared across all zoom modes, or if there are 5 individual settings, some of which may happen to be set to the same value. The only way to find out is to change them, then see if the change is reflected in other modes.

You can switch zoom modes while in the service menu, but only if you have a non-HD input selected. If the TV is receiving a 720p or 1080i signal on component inputs, you can't change the zoom.

Finally, if the signal you are viewing is HD (720p or 1080i), the settings you are adjusting may not be what you think. The adjustments will be for what ever zoom mode the TV is in. This results in you changing values, seeing no difference, and leaving the changed value. Later, you switch modes and find the picture all out of whack. To see all of the settings that will impact the HD picture, the TV zoom mode must be set to FULL while viewing an SD signal first, then switch to an HD signal and enter the menu.

After you get the HD adjusted, if you try to adjust for any of the SD modes you must be very careful to only change values that are distinct for that mode. Otherwise, you change one of the shared settings and screw up the HD picture.

As far as I can remember, all of the brightness, contrast, color setting at the upper end of the service menu are shared: one value applies to all zoom modes.

[Porcupine2]

Yeah, be careful like DentalGuy said. Usually though the settings between the different screen modes are similar or the same so if you accidentally overwrite them all to one value your TV will be okay in all modes, just slightly suboptimal in the overwritten modes.

Most of the upper end SM settings relating to stuff like Color, Contrast, Brightness, Gamma Correction, Sharpness, etc are shared for all zoom modes, but different for different video modes (Video123, Colorstream component, HDMI, etc). Most of the lower end geometry-related SM settings are different for the different zoom modes but shared for all the video modes. Most of the middle-range SM settings relating to color temp are shared for all modes. Certain other special settings here and there are also shared by all modes, such as Tilt, V. SYMM (whatever it does), etc.

One of the most annoying things about these sets though is that they have slightly different settings for the HD and SD modes, that can't be separately adjusted in the SM. For example, when in HD the overall image is somewhat shifted to the right and is thinner (lesser aspect ratio) than when in SD mode set to FULL. There's no way to have the TV be correctly set for both HD mode and the SD FULL mode at the same time, you have to go into the SM each time you switch modes if you really want perfection. This is not feasible in practice so you will just have to live with imperfect SD FULL mode or imperfect HD mode settings.

Also, changing the FULL mode values always overwrites the other zoom mode values (it's a flagged default in the TV) so that's how people usually accidentally overwrite the other zoom mode settings. Similarly, changing the Service Menu settings that apply to the "later" video modes automatically overwrite all "previous" video mode values. So changing values while having Component video active will overwrite the same SM values for Composite mode as well. But not vice-versa. So you have to manipulate values in a certain order to keep everything separately adjusted.

[klover]

Good points guys. Just so we're clear, these settings relate to screen stretch set to FULL (I think it's the fifth of five settings).