Home audio & video: did you get a Calibration? and Why?
TV Calibration
by Reelrob - 3/21/08 11:33 PM In reply to: did you get a Calibration? and Why? by gabereyesI questioned several people about calibration before I had my Sony 46" LCD TV calibrated. Everyone I spoke to said that it was beneficial, not only for the image quality but also for the power consumption, and life of of the TV.
The tech showed me on the scope the differences before and after calibration, and it seemed to make a differnce.
It's not too expensive, so I am glad I had it done.
RH
Not really
by morrie 52 - 3/22/08 9:35 AM In reply to: did you get a Calibration? and Why? by gabereyesI have a46" sammy full high def that out off box it's three modes were a disaster,over bright and coloured,but with an hour or so of fiddling now have damn fine pictures,but try the net there is plenty off information on how to get best picture's for different models.
i vote yes
by chucker111 - 3/22/08 9:59 AM In reply to: Not really by morrie 52I have a 46" Rear Pr. Mitzu.Always thought it looked good.Then I had a panel board mess up.When the Tech. came and installed a new one(thank god for ext.warranty,btw),he explained it to me,and then took care of it right then.It had a very noticeable difference in picture quality,day,night,and different situations.I think I noticed the biggest difference in the people onscreen had a much better and TRUE skintone(even when channel is changed).I would have done it sooner (before a problem arose)if I would have known the difference,AND after the Tech. explained it all to me,it made perfect sense.Sorry for the Loooong story.My 2 cents;I recommend having it done.Have a good Easter everyone.
calibration
by jasondtx - 3/22/08 10:48 AM In reply to: i vote yes by chucker111Any newer THX certified DVD has video and audio calibration tests on it. Ratatouille, Toy story, #1 & #2, Star Wars 123456, Cast Away, etc. They are a good test to use to calibrate the video. Still, I would have an ISF calibration done because it goes a step further, and it's the step that really makes the big difference. As to the remark that a particular tv is perfect out of the box it can come close to that perfection on certain settings but it matters what you are hooking up to it also. For instance, the engineers at pioneer or panasonic don't know if you're hooking up a Denon DVD player, or a Samsung, LG, Meridian, Classe, etc. Each source component is going to output a different picture quality and black level, white level, color etc. In my experience of performing calibrations there are times where certain combinations of equipment give you near perfect results without touching much on the set or projector, other times which is MOST OFTEN the case you have to make some major adjustments and it gives you noticeable improvements
THX
by mattnotis - 3/23/08 6:10 PM In reply to: did you get a Calibration? and Why? by gabereyesI just used the THX thing that was on my Star Wars DVDs. Would that be sufficient?
My 2 cents
by gabereyes - 3/23/08 11:11 PM In reply to: did you get a Calibration? and Why? by gabereyesI was really looking for people who had the calibration done and what made them buy it, colors, detail, etc.
but I seem to get alot of feed back for why people didnt.
so for me I believe there is no other way to watch TV after calibration, I have used the THX setup, DVE disc, sound and vision disc, and Avia, all seem to help in picture accuracy, some are better then others, like DVE and Avia where the best, but both disc say you cannot adjust some settings in the user menu.
and after using all the disc the professional calibration was the real deal, yes there are diffrent setting in the user menu like sharpness, brightness, contrast, and pre set color temp. but the major ones you cannot get to like gamma, Velocity scan, full color temp, overscan, etc. that make the diffrents.
Some presets on your TV like vivid, standard, and movie or closer to NTSC standard but none of them are the best the TV can do.
Some people say its a personal opionon if the picture looks good or not, but if you look at grass on the TV and then look out the window and they dont match in color, it isnt right.
I know everyone want to justify why not to buy something are that it to much money, but 90% of the time you pay for what you get.
Companies know how a customer shops, buy numbers 20,000:1, 1080p, 8ms and they also look at black levels, whites and colors side by side.
So the goal is so bigger numbers on the tag, by testing a TV there own way to yield a higher stat, and make it brighter by pushing color temp to a high blue tint like a blue head light on a car that we have all seen driving home at night, they stick out from the rest of the oncoming traffic pretty easily, they also push more colors with a extra push on red to make skin tones look better since some customers might notice that everyone’s face looks blue, and to get a better black they turn down the brightness also known as black level down Intel the black look black, this make seeing any detail in dark pictures impossible (ever watch a scary movie and a dark scene is on and you can see anything?), and they also turn up sharpness to make the TV look sharper then the competition, but remember with HDTV being digital and the same resolution as the TV you don’t need sharpness at all, sharpness only outline the edges of an object with a white are black line around it all its doing is adding it own information to the picture and taking away from the true image.
(ever notice that computer monitors, video camera , and digital camera, don’t usually have a sharpness adjustment.)
Do you need calibration? NO
but then you dont NEED a HDTV or a surround sound either, but you want them, calibration is worth the money it makes a $2000 TV perform like a $3000 dollar TV, for $100-$300 dollars.
Thank for all your feedback
Gabe
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