Vizio LCD Setup

[rjkirk]

I have a Vizio 47 in. E470VL LCD TV coming tomorrow (a day earlier than originally scheduled) and have downloaded the manul. The picture and audio setup is quite complex. Backlight, color, brightness, contrast, color temperature, adaptive lumina, etc., etc. Does anyone have experience setting up this type of tv and have tips on the best settings. I have already come across a tip to turn the Smooth Motion Effect and Ambient Light Sensor off. Seems the light sensor can inferfer with some remotes.

 

[jostenmeat]

I would also kill any FI like "smooth motion", and I would also kill any NR that I'm pretty certain your TV will have. I think Vizio has low NR as default, but you can turn this completely off.

I would also use the most accurate pic mode, prolly called something like Film or Cinema. Man, it's been a while, but I saw a non-film mode TV with the lights out recently, that blue shifted crap is so irritating!

After this, you should try your hand at a calibrating bluray, like Spears Munsil or DVE. You need to choose how much light to have in the room; it can't look just right for both lights on and lights off. Or if you have user presets, make two cals, one for light, one without.

You will adjust brightness with the PLUGE low pattern, and contrast with color bars I believe. Color temperature will generally have warm as the preferred (cool being "dynamic" blue shifted, with blinding sci-fi levels of skin tones).

I have zero input on what to do with backlight.

 

[jostenmeat]

You will adjust brightness with the PLUGE low pattern, and contrast with [strike]color[/strike] bars I believe. Color temperature will generally have warm as the preferred (cool being "dynamic" blue shifted, with blinding sci-fi levels of skin tones).

I have zero input on what to do with backlight.

Sorry, that should have been "contrast" bars, brain fart. On the Spears disc, at least with a bulb that is anywhere near fresh, I have a hard time getting the black bars to start blending in at #17 like the instructions say. So I use the white bars as my only reference instead, just below clipping of brightest white bar.

Colors, I'm just scrooed with my JVC RS1 until I finally add that combo kit of DVDO-Duo/Chromapure/colorimeter for a cool $1200 or so.