How DO You Calibrate a New TV?

[Son_of_SJ]

Honestly, I read one of those web pages on how to "calibrate" a TV last night.

Turn the brightness up and down. Turn the contrast up and down. Turn the colours up and down.

Jesus-H-Flaming-Christ!

Could you give a link to the page please? What you are describing doesn't sound like a proper calibration to me.

 

[simonlewis]

@Benedict_Arnold it's called progress, welcome to the 21st century.

 

[bigboss]

You're only proving your ignorance with every post.

 

[Series1boy]

it was probably calibrated to dynamic *biggrin*

So now we know what you charge 250 quid a pop for.... your secret's out.....

yes I've spent hours trying to get my to picture right by twiddling some knobs. yes I've used settings from the Internet, yes I've used the Panasonic calibration app on my iPad device, yes I've used the thx optimiser from a Disney disk, but none of these made my tv any where near as good as when Vincent Teoh a professional calibrator who is 1 of the leading if not the best in my opinion calibrated my plasma VT with his 1000's of pounds of equipment. If you want to use your anology of a motor vehicle, then it's like getting your Ecu re mapped to make your car more efficient or faster. With this you need an expert with 1000's of pounds of equipment and the training to do this. You can't do this your self can you?!

iam not a calibrator benedict, so I'm not charging anything. You are not making sense on anything you say and to be quite honest, you are digging yourself a massive hole and making your good self look stupid whilst in the process.

You say you are an engineer, in what I ask? Any one with a technical background in what ever sector they worked in would understand this.

 

[tele1962]

I have a feeling he is winding us up.

 

[chebby]

I have a feeling he is winding us up.

Of course he is.

 

[tele1962]

I have a feeling he is winding us up.

Of course he is.

Dissapeared again i see LOL.

 

[Series1boy]

He's full of it..... And probably wrapping rubber bands round his knobs..

 

[Son_of_SJ]

Benedict_Arnold, can you reply to my post #51 please? If you choose not to answer that's fine, I won't ask again.

 

[Son_of_SJ]

Well, you've not answered my post 51 above. I thought I'd return to this three-month-old thread because of my new purchase. You seem to think that people who get their sets professionally calibrated are wasted their money and could do it themselves. Very briefly, I can show that I wouldn't waste my money on something that wasn't real.

About six years ago I had the Tannoy TS12 subwoofer, see review here http://www.whathifi.com/tannoy/ts-12/review. At that time I had more money than I do now and I read reviews of the Paradim Seismic 110 subwoofer, for example this What Hi-Fi one http://www.whathifi.com/paradigm/seismic-110/review and this Home Cinema Choice one, now reproduced on Techradar here http://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/hi-fi-and-audio/hi-fi-and-av-speakers/paradigm-seismic-110-901098/review. So I thought that the Paradigm would be better than my Tannoy, and so it should have been, at thrice the price! So I went to my local dealer, the Home Cinema Centre then only seven minutes walk from my flat. For comparison, I took my own Tannoy subwoofer with me, because it's important to have a known product when examining a new one. I had the money with me, and I was fully prepared to spend £1,200 on the Paradigm subwoofer. The dealer connected both the subwoofers, and we switched between the two on various Blu-rays and CDs. To my astonishment, I couldn't hear much of an improvement in going from the £400 Tannoy to the £1,200 Paradigm! And I was expecting, and indeed wanted, the Paradigm to be clearly better, and I was fully prepared to be paying £1,200 for the Paradigm that day! So, after about half an hour I left the shop, with my Tannoy subwoofer - and still with my £1,200!

 

[Son_of_SJ]

Benedict_Arnold, I hope that you'll now believe that I won't spend money on a supposed improvement that I personally couldn't discern. I had the four plasmas that I then had calibrated in July 2013. I did notice the difference, and it's a single button press on the remote control to go back to the non-calibrated settings (which I had set up carefully using the Spears and Munsil calbration disc), and the calibrated settings are clearly better. Without the specialised equipment that the calibrator has, equipment costing more than £5,000, you cannot do things like correct the greyscale for colour neutrality (balancing the three primary colours red, green and blue) as you scan the greyscale from deepest black to brightest white, for instance. And it really does make such a difference, I'm sorry that you seem to have closed your mind to the benefits.

If, on your next trip to the UK, you find yourself in Edinburgh, I'd be happy to show you the difference!

Steve Withers, who did my televisions, has written this short article about it, believe me, it really is worth reading http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/calibration.

 

[Series1boy]

He can also come to Sheffield and view my calibrated VT