I've an idea actually after thinking abt it more.

Most people are only interested in the bottom line and most don't have the time to weed thru tons of technical info and just want the jist. This is normally how "top management" likes it.

So in the future, I will post the bottom line 1st and the technical explanation in a spoiler, so for those who want further insight, u can open the spoiler, for those not interested u could just read the bottom line.

I think that way is the best to cater for the masses.

Yes I do. Actually projectors are more challenging to calibrate 9 times out of 10! U can PM me and we can discuss further.

The new gen Pannys seem to have a full 3D CMS! So more accurate calibration. And as Bishop said, single sheet of glass (it was already there on the V series onwards in the last gen)


The higher end ones have backlit remotes as well..

It seems like they are continuing to improve!

The upcoming VT30 has automatic ISF calibration feature as well. See here. I wonder how accurate will it be.
Don't think it'll be as accurate as our bro anfieldude pro calibration.

This post has been edited by gdee: Feb 19 2011, 02:54 PM

probably our beloved AD didn't realise he has many fans in here at lowyat forum . thanks for all your post which to many ,are very informative, insightful and even educational

this is good!! btw bro where r u from?

I believe they are working with SpectraCal on the automation.

I use SpectraCal's software called Calman for calibration and am aware of their offering.

I believe automatic calibration helps to get the set closer to standards than no calibration at all, however, there is still stuff that needs human intervention and further fine tuning and finding the pre-settings before starting calibration is important. Some settings like brightness, gamma require interpretative knowledge of the environment that might require a person to decide.

Still, its a step towards the right direction.

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Added on February 19, 2011, 4:08 pmI'm from Penang

This post has been edited by anfieldude: Feb 19 2011, 04:08 PM

wish u have chance to come to miri sarawak then u can calibrate my tv

thanks for the heads-up and link.

Not sure if I fully understand what this "new feature" the VT30 offers, but based on this:
it doesnt sound radically different from the current practice of getting your own colorimeter kit and running it through a calibration software.

and at 600 euro, there are much more affordable solutions out there in the market. so can't really see what's so "special" about this new VT30 feature.

This post has been edited by terranova: Feb 19 2011, 05:12 PM

I suppose the VT30 will auto-set the brightness/contrast/color saturations and isf settings based on the readings. That's the only thing that is automatic.

No its not, but its a feather in the cap for the guys at Spectracal. They have been very innovative in pushing calibration to the masses. This year many other displays will also come with that capability, including the JVC projectors.

But think about it, for those who buy the state of the art display they owe it to themselves to squeeze push the display to its capabilities. This educates them that there are solutions out there if u care to look. At the very least, they will know that if they do not want to spend the money they can actually hire someone to bring the best out of the display.

may i know why those company dont want to calibrate their tv to the best only sell to market?

This is not the world where everything is same.

oh i get what u mean already. our very own environment. day light, night time or watching distances. got it

Sifus,

Need your advice on this. Nearly 200 hrs now, still on low settings, 30+. Like the picture quality when viewing History, AXN etc. Noted that when on AEC the Taiwanese studio shows, the picture quality isn't as good, rather pale. So what is OK for one channel isn't OK for another channel. How can I overcome this ? Thanks.

Will doing the calibration resolve this ?

Thx for all the information from AD.
Been following this topic since bought my 1st plasma. Now is my 2nd plasma. Love the plasma coz PQ.
May i know AD how much for u to calibrate?

I doubt it can. The problem is mostly in the source. Post calibration HBO HD and Star Movies HD channels looks spot on. The rest are almost ok, except for some shows. Live football is also different, most of the time EPL will look different compared to La Liga. So its the source. What u can hope to have after calibration is calibrate to standards and hope for the best. In my opinion, it works most of the times.

PM me with ur config and we can discuss....

A quick question here.

Does plasma support 4:3 tv program? what I worry that is when converting 4:3 into widescreen (full screen) and it make the screen stretched ( people face looks like hamburger style). Even though it do maintain properly, but i don wan it to be viewed by showing two black bars on left/right side. (Burn-in effect). Can anyone share ur experiences?

I think all HDTVs allow you to change the Aspect Ratio. So, you can manually select the prebuilt AR to suit the contents.

However, if you don't want the 2 black bars on the left and right side, I think it's impossible unless you zoom in quite a bit. Zooming in will create 2 problems: (1) a very soft image (blur and pixelated) and (2) you lose quite a bit of the image at the sides (possibly chopping off heads and legs and subtitles).