People who has Sony KDS-55A2000

[Steelmaker]

Originally Posted by Hillside Trece

Hey Steel,

The worst thing to do is take someone else's settings and apply them to your set -- I understand if you were looking for "baseline" settings to go off of, but even still, you should start with a fresh slate, with factory defaults and use a setup disc (or three, like I did!) to adjust for your room and lighting conditions. That's why I never understood people taking readings from online reviewers and plugging them in exactly as the reviews read -- each set comes off the factory line a bit different, and although these new digital HDTVs, it can be argued, are very similar to each other in many ways (companies getting the factory grayscale and presets closer to "more ideal," etc.) you should still use your own setup disc and go from there, from scratch.

That said -- do you keep your SXRD in Standard or Custom picture mode?

I use Custom. Using Standard blocks your access to customize certain settings (why I dont' know). I haven't dared to try and change anything in the service menu. I have only adjusted the standard settings in the menu screen. I am about 10' away from my TV and my room is fairly dark. Like I said, I only used tweaktv.com's suggested settings as a starting point. I thought the picture looked pretty good under their recommended settings but I did tweak it a little. I'm sure it's not technically "right" but it looks pretty good to my eyes. What calibrations disks would you recommend Hillside? I might consider using one if you think it makes that big of a difference.

I will say this, I bought my TV in February of 2007 and still to this day I think it has a gorgeous picture! It's a shame Sony abandoned the SXRD technology because I still think it provides THE best balance of sharpness, clarity, and yet still preserves that nice "film" look that I think has been somewhat lost with all the newer plasma and led/lcd flat screens.