i just bought the 50ST50K from TBM with installment plan for RM3200.

i plan to do a little calibration as i have the Spyder3TV. Does anyone has any experience in in calibrating this TV? How is the performance of this TV right out of the box before calibration?

i have also read that it would be better that we have run in the tv for about 500 hours before calibration. Is this true?

i have just completed my 50ST50K calibration with the Spyder3TV and the result that i got is as below:

Contrast = 88
Brightness = -15
Colour = 53
Tint = -3
Colour Balance = Warm

do you guys think that the contrast is too high?

i didnt calibrate the white balance as the SypderTV only calibrates contrast, brightness, colour, tint and colour temperature.

i started it off with using Normal for calibration because this TV does not have the option to calibrate Colour Balance once TrueCinema has been enabled.

with this brightness setting, i am still able to see all the shades of grey and black in the grey scale chart but i cant really differentiate the last 2 shades of whites.

i feel that there are a lot of things left to calibrate but the Spyder3 has too limited function.

i was using the color pattern provided by Datacolor.

i will go back and try out the HD709 test pattern today. I m actually using Dune media player. Can i use the MP4 version of the HD709 test pattern?

by the way, i am now reading up on the HCFC colorimeter.

http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10457

i found the guide here but this guide is slightly old. what do you think of the HCFC colorimeter? is it accurate?

thanks for all you advice...really help a lot.

i will now stick to the Spyder3 first (out of budget) and test out the HCFR tonight.

will post the result of my calibration tonight.

for new Plasma TV calibration, will the result runs off after the break in period?