We argued and argued and argued that "but there's a known standard! Just have a preset that gets it in the ballpark of SMPTE RP-166!" But they would not listen. Most people will realize after the adjustment period that the new settings are in fact far superior once their eyes are trained.Click to expand.We asked this many times when we were reviewing sets for Consumers Digest in the 1980s and 1990s, and I was told different answers by the manufacturers:Ī) our sets are not consistent enough on the factory line to make a "one size fits all" preset that will work, since every screen that comes off the line is a little differentĭ) the sets that sell the best are the ones that look the brightest and sharpest in the dealer's room, and bluish, over-enhanced sets appear to the eye to be brighter and sharper The key is to give the new calibration at least a week to let your eyes adjust even if you think it initially looks worse.
#How to use avs hd 709 calibration disc tv
These settings are not optimal for TV and movies. That's because you will end up with a less vibrant, darker screen and you are used to a bright vibrant screen that was setup by the manufacturer to get people's attention in a big store when placed next to other TV's. Make sure you set your TV's back light down to the bottom 1/3 before beginning.īiggest thing with using these discs is to understand that after calibrating your TV you may think at first that the picture looks worse than before. It's lacks some stuff you will get with Video Essentials but it's easier for a beginner to set up a solid picture on their TV. The Disney WOW disc is the easiest to use I've seen to date. I have the Disney WOW disc and highly recommend it: For better results get the blue filter glasses from THX.com (a paltry $1.99 investment) to better tune your color/hue settings. that's a quick way to do it without any specialized equipment. The 4th screen is a grid screen - this should not matter on an LCD - it's really meant for adjusting geometry/linearity/convergence on CRT and projectors. You may want to go back and forth between screens #1 and #3 to set the contrast/brightness settings optimally. If the black and white ends smear into the gradient, reduce the contrast. You can fine tune your contrast settings here a little more so that the ramp looks smooth and the extreme ends transition gradually to black or white. To confirm, you'll notice the vertical and horizontal bars with the fine lines look like they are almost the same tone of grey when viewed from a distance. Set it so that the lines look clear and you minimize the oval shaped artifacts in the round patterns. The 2nd screen lets you adjust your sharpness settings. Next adjust the color so that the red looks normal and doesnt bleed into the magenta and blue bars, and adjust the hue so that the red looks red and the blue looks blue. This is what mine looks like after I calibrate it on the first screen: You have to adjust your contrast/brightness settings until you can see the three small vertical pluge bars (dark grey bars) below the red bar, then adjust the brightness so that the 3rd (right) pluge bar is just barely visible (the #1 and #2 bars should look black at that point). The first screen is the SMPTE color bar screen that looks something this: spelling SONY using the numbers like you do on the phone) and you get into the 4 calibration screens. When you get to the main menu, press 7669 (i.e.
Spiderman 3, Surf's Up, Resident Evil Extinction etc) and start up the Blu Ray. Get a hold of any Sony Pictures Blu Ray Disk (e.g. You'll notice that there is a number after the "User" setting indicating which user input setting that is. The nice thing about the Aquos is that it remembers the picture settings for each input individually, and it is a good idea to use the "user" setting to customize the settings for each input.
#How to use avs hd 709 calibration disc movie
So you pop the movie into your bluray player, enter the code, and it'll bring up various calibration screens that you can use to adjust color, brightness, stuff like that. Just what I read, but my understanding is that all sony blu movies have this easter egg. which do I do first and isn't this kind of like the chicken and the egg scenario? If I have to calibrate my player and have to calibrate the tv. To me it sounds like they are talking about calibrating the Sony Blu-ray player? Holy crap. When do I enter 7669?Įdit: Just read the article. Are you talking about the actual Sony Blu-ray player? If yes.