Perfect calibration for LCD TV?

[admin_exported]

Hey

Getting sick and tierd of adjusting the settings on my new LG 42LD450

I get one screen and adjust and it looks great, then I go to HD content and it just looks way to bright.. ect. ect..

Any way of finding out the best setting besides spending 15.00 on a calibration disc?

Thanks guys

 

[Anonymous]

you probably have a thx set-up disc amongst your dvds and blu-rays , it wont be perfect , but it will help , heres a list ..

 

[Anonymous]

Yeh I popped one of my blu-rays in and adjusted the pic and it looked amazing, but then when I turned it off and watched SD TV it did not look right. Never had to do this with my 720p plasma. Bit gutted, the LCD 1080p is so much better with Sky HD and Blu-ray, but it is terrible with SD material, it looks washed out and no life.

 

[manicm]

As a rule, never expect full HD sets to have great off-air SD quality.

A lower res 'HD ready' set is a better compromise if off-air SD is a priority.

 

[007L2Thrill]

Hi Canada

Have you tried AVSHD, its free and I have used it to calibrate my Sony LCD and it worked great. Download the one that suits your BD player unzip the file, burn the ISO to a DVD and when you load it in your BD player it will act as a BLU RAY disc and there is a manual in PDF form too.

Click here for link AVSHD

Hope that helps.

 

[Ronald Archiebald]

Manicm,

You are actually absolutely right about that. My HD Ready set has a much better SD picture than many Full-HD sets I have come across.

Is there an explanation behind this?

Ronald

 

[Anonymous]

Ronald Archiebald:
Manicm,

You are actually absolutely right about that. My HD Ready set has a much better SD picture than many Full-HD sets I have come across.

Is there an explanation behind this?

Ronald

less scaling to do ronald , the normal 576p image is only stretched to 720p as opposed to 1080p....

 

[bigboss]

maxflinn: less scaling to do ronald , the normal 576p image is only stretched to 720p as opposed to 1080p....

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Canada,

I use Digital Video Essentials HD for a DIY calibration of my 5th gen Pioneer Kuro. Adjusting brightness, contrast etc is very simple to do. DVE HD goes right into adjusting all the colours aswell and comes with a colour filter to assist with this.

Blu-ray looks amazing, and SD is very watchable.

I dont think SD images are scaled to 1080p. (i could be mistaken) My panel pops up with a number in the corner of the screen displaying what signal is being received to the TV. Some SD channels are still in 576 here in Aus. I now run everything but FTA TV through the receiver and up scale to either 1080p or 1080i depending on the original material. I found that original interlaced picutres are better upscaled to 1080i rather than 1080p.

 

[Ronald Archiebald]

Maxflinn,

So, the higher the resolution of the screen, the greater the degradation in quality with SD content?

This obviously works in the opposite with HD content, with Full HD supposedly able to deliver a superior picture quality?

Using your argument, SD content is then at it's best quality at it's native resolution , using a non-HD TV set?

As an example : a regular dvd player which outputs at 576p as opposed to using a dvd player with an upscaler that upscales the content to 720p/1080i - the upscaler would produce a better picture, without doubt.

So, using that same theory, a Full HD TV should perform better than a HD-Ready TV even with SD material too.

No?

Ronald

 

[Anonymous]

Thats what I can understand ronald, My PS3 upscales my dvd's amazing.

I would have thought a TV that costs double and triple that of the PS3 it would have better upscaling.

Do you think an amp would help? as my VSX819 does not upscale, or am I just losing a battle that cant be won.

I watch a lot of HD stuff anyway, so not too bothered, but when I do watch SD the picture is worse than my 720p Plasma

Thanks for that link will try that tonight.

 

[aliEnRIK]

Sounds to me like youve got the HD settings wrong somewhere

When it goes 'way too bright' which source are you using? Is it the same on sky HD as well as PS3 blurays?

 

[aliEnRIK]

Good chance you have DEEP COLOUR switched on the tv

Switch it off

 

[Anonymous]

Ronald Archiebald:
Maxflinn,

So, the higher the resolution of the screen, the greater the degradation in quality with SD content?

This obviously works in the opposite with HD content, with Full HD supposedly able to deliver a superior picture quality?

Using your argument, SD content is then at it's best quality at it's native resolution , using a non-HD TV set?

As an example : a regular dvd player which outputs at 576p as opposed to using a dvd player with an upscaler that upscales the content to 720p/1080i - the upscaler would produce a better picture, without doubt.

So, using that same theory, a Full HD TV should perform better than a HD-Ready TV even with SD material too.

No?

Ronald

yes , standard definition , 576p , looks best on a good sd tv ..

full 1080p material looks better on a full hdtv ..

different components have different quality scalers ..

eg . if you spin a dvd on a denon 2500 bdp , and send it to a pioneer kuro lx 5090 unscaled , ie 576p .. the kuro will display a better upscaled picture than if it was receiving the data at 1080p , ie , if the denon was doing the scaling ..the kuros scaling is better than the denons , or any other dvdp , bdp , or tv ..

when a tv , dvdp , bdp , ps3 etc is upscaling , its basically trying to guess where the data goes on the high res screen , 576p to 1080p , is more challenging than 720p to 1080p .. 576p to 720p is less demanding of the scaler of tv , bdp whatever than 576p to 1080p , so sd often looks better on a 720p tv than a 1080p tv , but not always , the quality of components scaling abilities , tvs ability etc come into play ..

thats my best effort anyways