near dark said:
Hi.
I managed to buy the disc for £20 ,nice.
I used the basic settings option,most of the settings were OK,according to the test patterns .The only 2 which required attention was the Gray Scale & the Colour. The GS was to bright,adjusted the brightness not the backlight . The colour was too hign,according to the blue/green/red lens (blue test shows the error)
I havent used the Advanced tests as yet.
I dont have any Pixar BD,but my nephews do. How will a Pixar BD help the settings?
Thanks
Oh well done that man for getting it at £20.
With regards the colour filters you get, the blue and the red will be most acurate. The green won't quite show green with black unless you are lucky. A full ISF calibration would almost achive this. You should get Blue and Black and Red and Black no problem.
Did you do the setting when the room was at it's darkest? You should also get someone else to look throug the colour filtes at the colour bars onec you think you have it as you would have been staring at the screen for a while.
So you did the Pluge? Is the test pattern white to black top to bobottom? Once the contrast and brightness are done and you've done the colour, go back and check the brightness and contrast. You don't want to see any colous other than white, grey and black in the Pluge. I'm sure the disc explains well what you have to do.
I say Pixar because they all have a set up section with simple test patterns for setting the contrast, brigtness, colour, overscan (mainly the screen orientation of how central the picture is) and Gamma. If there are gamma test screens on your disc I don't think you will be able to do them without a meter to read the screen. The Pixar ones are designed so you can use your eyes for the Gamma.
I wish I had one of them disc so I could help more if you get stuck as I don't know what test patterens are on it. If you come across a pixel clock screen thats a good one to see how well the pixels are working. It's basically alternate black and white pixels. There should be no moire (mirage type movment you get when looking at fine lines) when you look at that test pattern.
There should be a sync clock too like a radar screen. It will check your video and audio sync.