Anyone Else a Fan of Sony's "Standard" Mode?

[Steelmaker]

Originally Posted by Linksys2.4

These were my sentiments about Custom and Standard to a TEE, Steel -- I feel the same way about switching to Standard; the only change you made to Standard was Sharpness? Using my calibration discs, I made these changes:

Picture: 80
Iris: Auto 1
Brightness: 54
Color: 42
Hue: 0
Color Temp: Neutral
Sharpness: 28
Noise Reduction: Low

As I said, my feeling about Standard mode was that it allowed for less "daunting" tweaking than Custom with all the Advanced Settings you need to make -- and the White Balance was driving me crazy; it also adds a bit of "pop" as you said, which is what makes me believe that some Live Color or other picture enhancements are being made automatically in Standard.

Thank you for your thoughts, and looking forward to hearing back from you!

Hmmm, I'll try your settings and let you know what I think. Thanks!

[Linksys2.4]

Originally Posted by Steelmaker

Hmmm, I'll try your settings and let you know what I think. Thanks!

Sorry -- I meant "52" for BRIGHTNESS, not "54"...

Also, I didn't really mean to suggest that you should use these settings for YOUR use; just sharing what I run on my set...

I have found that just copying someone else's settings doesn't really work because the sets are so different from one to another; that's why I didn't really care for Tweak's values or CNET's.

But I'd be interested to learn what you found with these values...

[jdmac29]

I have a sony kdfe 42a10 and kds 55a3000 rear projection units.
I have played with customer, cinema modes and I always go back to Standard. I make a few slight changes to some of the settings but basically it is as if I just took it out of the box. To me sony settings right out of the box are the best in the industry.

[kingofgrills]

I have a KDS 50A2000 SXRD, and I had all three modes calibrated, each for a different purpose. With the SXRDs, you are not tied to a setting just because of the label it is given. They are each still fully configurable. Here is what we did:

Vivid Mode was calibrated for use in bright rooms, like mid-day viewing with high ambient light.

Standard Mode was calibrated for use in mid-to-low light room viewing

Custom Mode was calibrated for low/no light movie viewing.

Before having this done I just used Custom Mode calibrated with my DVE disc no matter what I was viewing. The new settings work very well, depending on the type of viewing and lighting conditions.

Definitely use Custom Mode for critical movie viewing. I would encourage you to try having the other modes calibrated for different lighting conditions though. It makes a big difference.