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If LED TV's require any more "Calibration" than that to make them work properly, I'd say that's pretty rediculous. A new $2500 and up TV should bloody well work out of the box.
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Get a calibration disc and play around with the settings. It will take a long time to do mainly because each input needs to be adjusted.
The reason they charge $300 for calibration is because of the amount of time and the equipment they use to calibrate TV's. Pro's use a sensor which suction cups on the tv to measure the color, then they manually adjust each setting to get the best picture. The cost upwards from $5000 for the colorimeter + software.
A cheaper alternative I would recommend is read the AVSforum and use other peoples settings. The problem with other peoples settings is that each room is always different. Some have more natural lighting, some have more florescent lighting, etc etc. PLUS most of these people on the forums aren't pro's they just play around with a calibration disc and "eyeball" the settings to their liking.
Here's a blurb I found
"The mandated price for ISF calibration is tied to how time consuming and tedious it is to do a proper calibration and to equipment costs. The role of the ISF professional calibrator is to educate the consumer and education should be part of any calibration process. Another reason is the cost of the equipment. The price of suitable meters ranges from $5,000 to $15,000, in addition to a pattern or test generator.
Our favorite was the Sencore “Hubble,” or OTC1000 ColorPro Optical Tri-stimulus Colorimeter. This meter is a non-contact device, has a laser pointer for alignment, and acquires accurate, repeatable readings very quickly, down to 0.01 ft-Lamberts. An alternative is the CP6000 ColorPro V. This is a contact device, doesn’t read quite as quickly, and doesn’t have the same sensitivity, but is half the price. Both come with ColorPro 6000 software that makes adjustment of colors
much easier. Compared to the consumer-grade contact devices, these sensors are far more accurate and repeatable and calibrate to a known standard.
Your eyes can be fooled easily when doing color calibration, as we don’t see differences in luminosity and color the same way. Some of the test patterns we used involved peering through colored gels to compare differences in intensity. However, the meters were always more accurate. We also discussed using a known light source and calibrated “swatches” as a means to compare color. "
If LED TV's require any more "Calibration" than that to make them work properly, I'd say that's pretty rediculous. A new $2500 and up TV should bloody well work out of the box.
Any TV will look better with calibration.
Go to avsforum.com and search for you TV model. Many people will share the settings they are using on there TV.
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Most TVs have a Special menu that they use to calibrate tvs. Head on over to AVSforums and search for your TV model and check out their calibration settings.
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thanks for the responses guys. I think I may have to bite the bullett and pay someone 300-400 to get my TV calibrated.
ALthough i could just copy someone elses settings I think there is more to it than that. I guess theres a reason why they charge so much for calibration. Thanks cman for the informative post.
I don't know how picky you are, but visually calibrating a monitor can result in somewhat acceptable results, but I personally would use something like the Datacolor Spyder3 TV for more accuracy. http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-ht-s3tv.php
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If LED TV's require any more "Calibration" than that to make them work properly, I'd say that's pretty rediculous. A new $2500 and up TV should bloody well work out of the box.
Not necessarily...the ambient lighting's colour temperature and brightness will affect how you see the monitor's colours. Again, this depends on how picky one is. As I do photography on a professional level, my computer monitor is calibrated on a weekly basis in the Adobe 1998 RGB colourspace. My TV, I don't give a shit....I just eyeball it
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every TV has slightly different colour even though its same model.
Good luck with the setting from online.
I did calibration myself and spend around 10 days of research and borrowed the equipments which worth 700 bux around.
Some of them need to get into Service Menu to calibrate. Do Not Try this if you don't know what you are doing.
^ yes but for most of the population that'll be close enough. half of my friends claim there's no quality difference between a 700mb dvd rip and a 4gb blu ray rip, I doubt many people would notice subtle differences in screen colouration. but that's just me.
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thanks for the responses guys. I think I may have to bite the bullett and pay someone 300-400 to get my TV calibrated.
ALthough i could just copy someone elses settings I think there is more to it than that. I guess theres a reason why they charge so much for calibration. Thanks cman for the informative post.
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Most people on the forums just eyeball the settings with a calibration disc. I tried a couple settings myself from what people tried and found that the colour was too warm and people were looking a little redder than they should.
It gives you a basic guideline to play with, but it's definately not fine tuned or considered properly calibrated. Just better than factory presets. You will need to pro to come in with the colorimeter.
I know someone that can calibrate tv's for you I can TRY to get him to swing you a deal. I know they charge $300 for one input. Maybe I can get him to do $300 to calibrate 2-3 inputs. He's using some sort of $8K calibration tool or something by Sencore. Not sure which model.
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Head on over to AVSforums and search for your TV model and check out their calibration settings.
