So You Calibrated your TV, eh?

[strangersonmyflight]

Let's all post here with the settings you ended up with. Have no worry- there is no "right" or "wrong" answers. Inherently it is determined by your specific equipment, in your specific room, and to your specific eyes. Maybe you just did it "by eye" on whatever was on TV at that particular moment, maybe you used a test screen off a DVD, maybe you actually got a hold of an official calibration disc, maybe you actually whipped out professional test equipment and signal generators, maybe you actually had a professional calibrator do his magic... Mentioning how you did it or ID'ing your equipment is optional. It's all good in this topic. Just be honest and open-minded! It's not about being "near" what somebody else came up with. It's about where does it all fall for everybody as a group?

Personally, my TV is set as follows:

color 30%
tint maybe 10% to the green
contrast 40%
brightness 35% (recently I just goosed it a bit just to bring out the shades of black a bit)
sharpness 20%
color temp middle

[mjones73]

TV make and model might be a useful addition to this though your settings aren’t going to always apply to someone with the same make and model as you. I’m not quite sure what usefulness there is in requesting people to post this info.

[strangersonmyflight]

...to see where settings "end-up" as a group. I think we can agree that there will be little basis for any kind of correlation given the wide range of equipment and viewing environments involved (mind you, this is not to say that settings cannot end up close to each other- it will just be more coincidental in nature rather than directly related). So where will everybody's settings lie? Wildly apart or generally toward the "center of the dial" on their respective equipment? Let's find out, I say! Think of it along the same lines as a certain "post a picture of your home theater" topic, if you really need a justification. ;) Certainly, the disclosures made in this topic are not intended to say that if you have xyz device, then you should have settings nearly abc, or else. It should already be a given that inherently different viewing environments can give rise to varied settings, regardless of the device.

[El Ray]

And is it correct to assume that the 2 TV's of the same make and model could end up with different settings?

[strangersonmyflight]

Yes, it is quite possible, as was explained earlier. The viewing room will contribute as much to the final settings as the TV itself. To be even more exact, production variances among the same model of TV can result in different final settings, even if you normalized the room.

[mjones73]

"Think of it along the same lines as a certain "post a picture of your home theater" topic, if you really need a justification."

The home theater gallery offers ideas to other people designing their own home theaters along with allowing people to show off the equipment they are using, it actually serves a useful purpose. Having people post their settings without the makes and models of their TV's so you can see where they lie when we already know they are going to vary from person to person based on a number of factors such as differences in models, differences in ranges used in different makes and models and differences in viewing environments really doesn't serve a useful purpose though IMHO... Anyone that wants to join in is more then welcome to post their settings though.

[Razor8]

I agree with Matt. This is useless. You'll end up with a bunch of numbers that don't mean a thing (except to the one who posted). In fact, if this information is misused, many people may degrade their PQ. This does seem like a waste. Razor

[stuckinthemud]

I think it would be interesting to see the responses just to see if there IS any useful info there. We can all speculate on the difference between two identical sets, but if everyone posted their numbers and we saw a pattern that helped us, why not? What harm is there in posting the numbers? Will it put any ISF techs out of business? I doubt it.

Nate

[Ratman]

My settings are (approx):
Brightness 60
Contrast 40
Tint 52
Color 45
Sharpness 2

Hope this helps. :whistle:

[mjones73]

I think it would be interesting to see the responses just to see if there IS any useful info there. We can all speculate on the difference between two identical sets, but if everyone posted their numbers and we saw a pattern that helped us, why not? What harm is there in posting the numbers? Will it put any ISF techs out of business? I doubt it.

Nate

If we were adding TV makes and models that might be useful, just posting numbers isn't.

[stuckinthemud]

My settings are (approx):
Brightness 60
Contrast 40
Tint 52
Color 45
Sharpness 2

Hope this helps. :whistle:


Personally, my TV is set as follows:

color 30%
tint maybe 10% to the green
contrast 40%
brightness 35% (recently I just goosed it a bit just to bring out the shades of black a bit)
sharpness 20%
color temp middle:

Two posts with numbers and so far nothing useful. I recant my above statement. :whistle:

Nate

[HookemHorns]

Just view their public profile

[JBHOPKINS]

My settings are
brightness 40
contrast 10
tint 30
color 57
sharpness 77

I have astigmatism and my left leg is longer than my right.

Oh, and sometimes I watch TV while laying on my side.

[jedivader]

The darks are too dark on my Hitachi 51F510. The only way to see detail is to raise the bright and contrast past 80%. That can't be good for burn-in.

[57U]

jedi, did you turn off your "black enhancement" or whatever the automatic setting is? You have to turn off all of the automatic settings as indicated in the FAQ "What you need to do to your new HDTV".

[mjones73]

Please put specific questions about your set in their own thread please.

[kevinw]

These were my settings 2 years ago
These were for a Pioneer HD OTA only tuner, Dish 508 PVR digital tuner and Panasonci Rp62 DVD player
Settings are as follows:
HD,DVD,SAT
Con 35, 37, 37
Brt 63, 51, 59
Col 36, 38, 36
Tnt -2, -2, -2
Shp 0, 21, 0

[jedivader]

Yes, all auto settings are off. I don't get the point of having the "black enhancement" option on a set, it makes every picture too dark.

Sorry mjones73, had to answer.

[kevinw]

Here are my settings last year
Contrast 43
Brightn's 57
color 51
Tint -12
Sharp 5
ALS off
FLESH OFF
DNR ON
Cinema Movie
Temp Medium
These settings are for HD input only and at all times/
SD and DVD viewing modes are slightly different.

[kevinw]

Here are more
http://www.hdtvoice.com/voice/showpost.php?p=66997&postcount=7
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Ok, I saw Chris White's solution. That would probably work, but I honestly couldn't see myself having to attach and reattatch those strips during every DVD viewing. Great idea really, just not for me.

I think the washed out black is a result of having such a large screen. When the picture is minimized in split mode, the bars are actually black...not to mention the overall picture is a little sharper. Maybe the image is being strecthed too much for it to retain it's intended color scheme.

These are my settings for DVD

Contrast 60
Brightness 25
Color 50
Tint 0
Sharpness 50


DVD's do look really good, it's just those damn washed out black bars. They're definitely tolerable, I'm just here in hopes that it's also curable.
http://www.hdtvoice.com/voice/showpost.php?p=67332&postcount=13

MJPac, I tried your settings on my TV and man was the picture dark! Of course I am already used to my settings as I am sure you are yours. But here is my settings:

Mode: Preference
ALS: Off
Contrast: 39
Brightness: 43
Color: 42
Tint: -5
Sharpness: 28
Flesh Tone: Off
DNR: Off
Color Temperature: Cool
Auto Aspect: On
Cinema Mode: Video
Display format: 1080i

Now this is AFTER I adjusted the red and green drives in service mode to eliminate the red push I was getting originally, AND i ONLY use the Preference mode at night. Daytime I use the Standard mode with the ALS set to ON. For Olympics, Racing, and Football, I use the Sports mode with ALS on whether it is day time or nite time. I am not fond of the Movies mode as the picture gets too soft for my liking...

[Ratman]

The settings I posted earlier were for my antenna A input.

This is what I use for component:
Brightness 58
Contrast 44
Tint 48
Color 40
Sharpness 1

[Matt27]

I have a SONY 34" 34HS420 and i have done some service menu tweaks with the DVE disc and calibrated with that disc too.

Here are what i changed in the service menu:I lowered overscan and that made the picture more sharper by adding more picture information to the screen.(Think pixels)

I got rid of the red push completely, and fixed the green depression common in sony tv sets, now yellows look yellow and greens look really good.

I did a few focus adjustments to get the image "much" sharper looking than it came from the factory.Geometry was really good out of the box, very minor bending in the corner, but you can only see it with the test patterns.

Now to the picture settings:

I used the "PRO" picture mode and have clear edge off and any other auto matic picture settungs since these do more harm to the picture than good.

Color temp was at neutral
Color is 1 click up from the middle setting.( My sony does'nt use numbers so i can't give you a real estimate of where they are at). Also since i got rid of redpush and calibrated as close to D6500k as possible i don't have to sacrifice color saturation by turning it down, i can nowturn it up without any bleeding or burnt faces with red push that was there before.

sharpness is all about personal taste, and everybody's vision, well since i don't have any edge enhancement at all i can now get an accurate setting using the sharpness control.In this case I left it in the middle that way it balances out.Too low and the set loses focus and words are hard to read.It also is based on how well your vision is mine is 50x20 or 20x50 i forget.

Contrast was set to about 75% and using the test patterns of DVE was dead on no blooming what so ever.Plus it's all about everybody's viewing environment.I see that if contrast is too low the picture lacks impact and 3D clarity.Burn in was'nt and issue since crt rarely get it, but i'm still aware of the issue.I used to have a toshiba 24" flatscreen that i just left with the factory settings at 100% contrast and played dvd's with it non stop with videogames too and no problems with burn in. and this was for 3 years straight!!!

Brightness i had to set about 6 or 8 clicks from the middle setting since sony sets are too dark using the factory settings, and you lose shadow detail.Using the pludge patterns i set brightness and contrast accordingly since they tend to interact.Honestly since i never did a calibartion in the service menu before and used a test disc it took me about a couple days to do my set.But after the calibration i think i did a very good job:)

Setting brightness is tricky since you don't want to set it too low or you will lose shadow detail and too high a setting and the blacks will look smokey and everything looks washed out.But if you use a calibration disc with the 3 bars test i think you will be alright.

Tint i left in the middle since my service menu changes fixed the color errors, and now the color decoder is very accurate.

And DRC(Digital Reality creation) i left on interlaced this upconverts all signals to 960i and it does a very good job too with my cable and video games they look really great!!!

And those are my settings, there is a big difference now from when i first bought it and after my calibration, it's like a night and day comparison.everything looks almost HD quality as well as my videogames and dvd's, hell even my vhs tapes and cable look really good.

Make sure your set get's at least a 100 hours of tv time before you calibrate a brand new set like mine, in my case i waited for a few months, because i had to do some research on how to use the service menu and wait for my DVE disc from ebay that i ordered.

Matt~

[strangersonmyflight]

I think it would be interesting to see the responses just to see if there IS any useful info there. We can all speculate on the difference between two identical sets, but if everyone posted their numbers and we saw a pattern that helped us, why not? What harm is there in posting the numbers? Will it put any ISF techs out of business? I doubt it.

Nate

That's the spirit I was looking for! :hyper: ...and I thank those who have shared already for sharing.

[boogiemanp]

zenith crt 32 in

contrast 68
bright 58
color 34
tint G8
sharpness 50
temp cool
z-view off

Room has lot of light