i1Display LT good color calibration for beginner?

[scweb13]

Plasma's in general, never look as bright as an LCD, but they do look great in little or no light.

[ridergroov1]

Originally Posted by scweb13

Plasma's in general, never look as bright as an LCD, but they do look great in little or no light.

Right I'm aware of this but we are talking about a basement with no light. The color and the tone of the picture is awful after the calibration. Do you think using the LCD profile would help?

[CJS234]

Just out of curiosity, did you use the regular tv menu's offset to change the values or did you go into the service menu and do this?

[ridergroov1]

Used the regular menus. I know how to get into the service menu but unforunately I lack the expertise to mess around in there. I would love to learn but I can't seem to find any information on how to do this anywhere on the internet.

I think I've officially given up at this point. I just spent another 2 hours trying to do something with my plasma. After I finish I have pretty decent readings but yet again I have the yellow soupy tint to everything. Looks like it sucks the life out of my display. I set it back to my "wrong" settings and my screen comes alive again. I'm guessing at this point that either my TV lacks the correct base color information for RGB and therefore gives me a terrible outcome or I just don't like a calibrated screen. I don't know though, I did my two samsung LCDs and they look awesome now. Of course my main one is a Plasma which looks terrible after I do this.

I've attached my settings which I made using ColorHCFR if anyone is interested. Thanks.

[CJS234]

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but those post calibration settings (the ones you don't like) are probably closer to the way your tv should look than the one you like at the moment. For one in your pre-calibration settings, your gamma seriously drops off near the end of the grayscale. Also your blue is too high. Your color temperature as well is nowhere near the 6500 mark. In your post-calibration settings, these issues are fixed. I have a Panasonic VT20 Plasma and a Sony 52W4100 LCD. When I calibrated my panasonic the whites look white with no slight yellow tint or hue to them, but on the SOny I think I see what you describe as seeing on your tv. This however is a small price to pay (I think anyway) to enjoy a calibrated picture. I do not know why my Panny does not have this effect.

I would hoever STRONGLY recommend that you stick with the post calibrated settings as they will more accurately depict color and detail in viewing material. It may take a little getting used to, but after a while you probably won't even notice it.

[ridergroov1]

Originally Posted by CJS234

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but those post calibration settings (the ones you don't like) are probably closer to the way your tv should look than the one you like at the moment. For one in your pre-calibration settings, your gamma seriously drops off near the end of the grayscale. Also your blue is too high. Your color temperature as well is nowhere near the 6500 mark. In your post-calibration settings, these issues are fixed. I have a Panasonic VT20 Plasma and a Sony 52W4100 LCD. When I calibrated my panasonic the whites look white with no slight yellow tint or hue to them, but on the SOny I think I see what you describe as seeing on your tv. This however is a small price to pay (I think anyway) to enjoy a calibrated picture. I do not know why my Panny does not have this effect.

I would hoever STRONGLY recommend that you stick with the post calibrated settings as they will more accurately depict color and detail in viewing material. It may take a little getting used to, but after a while you probably won't even notice it.

I hear you. I really do and I know what you are saying is right. I know the post calibration settings are the way it should be but I don't know, I just can't get used to it. They look so different than what my eyes like it is really hard to accept. It just blows my mind how something that is calibrated can look that bad to me. I'm sure I've probably never watched a properly calibrated TV before so that is what my eyes are used to but, it's really hard to force myself to watch something that seems nasty looking to me. Don't know what to do.

[ridergroov1]

I'm going to try to force myself to watch it like this for a few days and then go back and see what I think. Last question is, if I had a calibrator come in, are they going to do anything drastically different in the service menu than what I"m doing here? Thanks again.