But remember, watching in vivid mode is roughly analogous to listening to music with bass and treble controls at maximum.ĮDIT: The "vivid" mode is specifically made to exaggerate color/contrast/brightness to make displays stand out on the showroom floor. As poster thegage says, if you've been watching in "vivid" mode, you'll think the correct adjustments are too dark/plain looking. The displays that we calibrated where a Samsung PN50B650 50 plasma, and a JVC RS25 projector.
#Avs tv calibration disc pro#
Set them to off/neutral before using a disc to calibrate your display. We used ColorHCFR (free), ChromaPure (200, which includes 1 measurement meter), and CalMAN (200 for home edition, 500 for enthusiast) for our software packages, and an i1 Display LT and i1 Display Pro for our meters. Some players and AVRs have their own brightness/color controls.
It takes about 90 minutes and involves running a program on their laptop and light sensors to determine the best color quality for your TV and the room you have it in. It does not involve set up, programming, and connecting sources. Make sure your disc player and/or AVR aren't set to affect the disc video though. A: Answer A calibration is performed after the TV has been running for 100 hours. The DVD explains what to adjust and what to look for onscreen when the adjustment is correct. Then, for a basic setup, use any DVD (like Finding Nemo or Toy Story) that has a THX picture optimizer for a quick adjustment. posts about your particular TV or monitor on the AVS Forum Web site (). If your display has its own built-in test pattern for basic black level/color adjustment, try that. Now if he could just teach her to calibrate the plasma for him. A rough rule of thumb is to set picture mode to movie/cinema, and turn off any type of noise reduction. Agreed that AVS probably has a detailed thread on setup for your particular display ("official Acme 46HDxyz thread").