Calibrate your tv

[Paul2]

THX, Videoholic, and Coredweller knows what they are talking about.

The reason I started this thread because my uncle have a 46" Widescreen TV and the color red is just too red on the projector, even after I connect the dvd player with component video input.  TV with the right calibration wil blow people\'s mind away.  It just that I don\'t know how to do it.

TV manufacturer knows people wanted high contrast so they make it high and its bad for tv.  It will lower the life of the tube.  SVM are another thing that could lower the tv longivitiy.  If possible try to turn of the SVM.

Thanks THX for the site.  I will try to buy the Avia disc and go into the service menu.  

[videoholic]

I only mess with the service menu on my projection unit.  It\'s easily accessed and you can\'t mess too much up.  I don\'t have mine calibrated by an ISF Tech yet.  Waiting for my new house with the dedicated room, etc..  I am able to get a very nice pic though through what I know.

My little 27" though it\'s just not worth screwing up.  I played with it a bit getting into the service menu, but since I don\'t need it to look good for movies, I don\'t care.  I just turn the contrast down and away I go.

I would definitely read up on this crap though before you jump into the service menu.  There is a reason why ISF guys make a pretty good living doing this crap.

[Paul2]

Originally posted by Videoholic
I only mess with the service menu on my projection unit.  It\'s easily accessed and you can\'t mess too much up.  I don\'t have mine calibrated by an ISF Tech yet.  Waiting for my new house with the dedicated room, etc..  I am able to get a very nice pic though through what I know.

My little 27" though it\'s just not worth screwing up.  I played with it a bit getting into the service menu, but since I don\'t need it to look good for movies, I don\'t care.  I just turn the contrast down and away I go.

I would definitely read up on this crap though before you jump into the service menu.  There is a reason why ISF guys make a pretty good living doing this crap.

I don\'t want to call ISF guys.  I heard some charge from $250-1000.  I am not rich.  I play around with my Sony Trinitron Flat screen 21" TV on the service menu.  Before, I never know the remote control have hidden code.  I know for sure video games have hidden code, dvd movie have easter egg.  But damn, Service menu is complicated thing to calibrate.  Gives me a major headache.  Anyway, I am trying to find the Avia disc that could help ease me to correct the picture.  I just went to one of the site that THX given me and it gives me some of their opinion and how they did it.  I use their opinion and try it on my tv and some works while other doesn\'t.  The red is better now.  Not perfect, but much better.  Black is better now, and there aren\'t color smear like there use to be.  But still, the picture is somewhat too bright.  maybe the color temperature is higher than 6500k.  But most of this will be solve if I have the Avia disc.  I played FFX, MGS2 on the 21" screen and the tiny text is readable now.  Before, they text are smear, misalign color, but now.  The problem is nearly gone.

[videoholic]

Color temperature at 6500 has nothing to do with the brightness of your screen.  That is the Kelvin temperature of the color white.  If you set the 6500 to less it will make your picture look very orange to your eye.  It\'s like the difference between looking at an incandescent light bulb and a flourescent lightbulb which burns at 4400.  You go outside and the sun burns at 5600.  You go into the shade and it becomes much bluer, up to 8500k...

So there is your lessen in light temperature for the day.