Got my TV Professionally Calibrated. WOW!

[Rakeesh]

Originally Posted by bacon12

I think I need to get professionally calibrated.

Just remember that if you pay less than $60 you'll probably get more than you bargained for.

[npras42]

Originally Posted by Tygerwoody

I have sharpness set to 50%. Would that be considered an "enhancement"? I think it looks wonderful at 50%. However, any higher than that and you start to see grain.

I really need to find my camera....

I think it depends on what TV you're using. When viewing HD content shouldn't sharpness be set to zero because anything above this is adding artificial sharpness to a 1:1 pixel image? It certainly is that way on an LCD.

[Tygerwoody]

Originally Posted by npras42

I think it depends on what TV you're using. When viewing HD content shouldn't sharpness be set to zero because anything above this is adding artificial sharpness to a 1:1 pixel image? It certainly is that way on an LCD.

CRT

[npras42]

Originally Posted by Tygerwoody

CRT

Yeah, sorry, you say that like a few times in your first post... I wouldn't have thought my advice would really be correct in your case.

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by npras42

I think it depends on what TV you're using. When viewing HD content shouldn't sharpness be set to zero because anything above this is adding artificial sharpness to a 1:1 pixel image? It certainly is that way on an LCD.

FYI for Sony TVs zero sharpness is actually around 35. Below 35 and it artificially blurs the picture, above it and it artificially edge enhances it.

[npras42]

Originally Posted by Ruined

FYI for Sony TVs zero sharpness is actually around 35. Below 35 and it artificially blurs the picture, above it and it artificially edge enhances it.

lol. Considering the sharpnes on my TV goes from 0 to 20 there is something amiss there.

EDIT: 0 to 30 sorry, I just checked.

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by npras42

lol. Considering the sharpnes on my TV goes from 0 to 20 there is something amiss there.

EDIT: 0 to 30 sorry, I just checked.

Sony TV? Thats odd, the older ones generally didn't have numbers on the scale IIRC (and you had to figure out 35% by the # of notches), while the newer ones are 0-100.

The new Toshiba REGZA models also blur the image under a certain number, like 45 i think. Its not the same as it used to be where 0 = no edge enhancement. You need to use something like DVE test pattern to see where the cutoff is.

[npras42]

I'm in the UK so the models and menus may be different to NA.

I have 2 Sony LCDs. One of my TVs is about 12 months old (i.e. when the model was released) and I got it about 9 months ago (46" 1080p model). The other is about 18 months old and I got it 12 months ago (40" 720p). They have roughly the same menu system, with numbers.

Its a blue background system with white text overlaid and solid orange bars that fill up. Looks much nicer than the old green bars that I think you're talkin about with no numbers.

When I check it I think it looks best with the Sharpness set to Min on HD content. I haven't checked with a DVE test pattern or anything. If you start to raise the sharpness you can start to see solid white edges being added to the picture. You don't really start to get artifacts in the surrounding image until about 10-15.

Maybe they removed that 'negative-sharpness' part of the scale on these models.

[Ruined]

Perhaps.

For the record the two I used that were ~35% before starting to blur detail on test patterns were the Sony KP-57WS520 (2004 model) and the Sony KDS-60A3000 (2007 model).

[FastRedPonyCar]

I got my 50" panasonic plasma hooked up yesterday. Looks phenomenal. I backed down a lot of the color/brigghtness settings as they come all vivid and as npras said, people looked all oompa loompa.

I did a pseudo calibration using owner settings from the AVS forum and then tweaked it watching finding nemo and then watching bourne supremecy and got a good balance between the exaggerated colors pixar uses and natural colors of the real world movies.

I've had the TV doing the burn in (it's a plasma thing) for about 15 hours so far. I'm going to let it run during the day while we're at work and while we sleep for a week (trying to hit the recommended 100 hour mark) and then tweak the settings again.

Luckly for me, the panny plasmas all seem to be pretty uniform when it comes to the panels looking the same, as in, the owners all seem to end up pretty much with the same color settings so there are a few guys who have had professional calibrators tune their TV's and the folks using these settings seem to like them the best and that's more or less where my settings ended up after about 20 minutes of tweaking the colors.

[MowTin]

Originally Posted by Tygerwoody

I wouldn't bother with a standard res TV. Its a $200-$400 job to calibrate a TV.

I know that may sound expensive, I thought it was too. However I have to say its worth it. I may try to take a picture of my TV, but no promises as CRT's again are hard to take pictures of due to refresh.

Wow you're rich

Can I borrow some money? I only have an 8800 GTS and my Crysis frame rates are so bad ("The Jerk" starring Steve Martin (Guy begs for money for new leather seats on his plane)

[Zapablast05]

Originally Posted by npras42

If you start to raise the sharpness you can start to see solid white edges being added to the picture. You don't really start to get artifacts in the surrounding image until about 10-15.

My Sharpness is set to 45. It's all default. I didn't bother messing with it because it's an HDTV, lol. Mind giving me some advice on how to calibrate my TV? It's only a month old if that helps.