DVE Calibration with Plasma

[Nailzaz]

Hi Everyone,

I had originally posted about calibrating my Samsung S5053 but yesterday I received my Digital Video Essentials calibration DVD. It is an extensive, information packed DVD and in trying to find the best settings for my TV, it did help.

Here are some notes & questions I wrote down and would love any help I can get from you guys.

According to the DVE DVD...

1) Movie Mode is the setting to use

2) Use "warm" color tone (but warm 2 or warm 2?)

3) I learned that Sharpness should be set to "0"

4) Color: Using their filter and my wife's help, I was able to calibrate the color correctly. However, it looks "unnatural" to me - too much color. Is this normal?

5) Brightness: I was able to finally calibrate this, which is great but...

6) Contrast, I couldn't seem to find a test/calibration for - any ideas?

Here are my settings now...

Again, any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Paul in Arizona

 

[AVRat]

I haven't used it in awhile but your color level does seem high. Just adjust it to your liking. Looking at the downloaded manual, contrast troubleshooting is on Title 7, Chapter 8 of the disk.

 

[Nailzaz]

I went to their site, looking for a downloadable manual but couldn't find one - heck, I have the one that came with it though.

Thanks for the tip. Hopefully tonight I can play with it some more.

Paul

 

[tcm5]

Contrast/white level

I posted something about contrast last week, but no one replied. There appears that there is no test pattern to set white level on the DVE disk. The Avia disk has a test pattern with white bars but I can see them at all white level settings on my Panasonic plasma so it is not useful. A better way to ajust contrast and brightness is to use a combined gray scale steps and ramps test pattern, there is one on the DVE disk.
Check out this website, www . ramelectronics . net / html / Video-calibration . html scroll down to the bottom where it talks about this pattern on the DVE disk. You want to adjust brightness so you can see all the grey level steps from black to white, with the darkest step as dark as possible, but still be able to see the difference to the next darkest step. Then adjust white level to taste. You may need to go back forth between brightness and white level a few times. The website above explains how to do this. I am using a white level of +10 on my plasma (the range is -30 to +30)