SONY: Share Your Custom Display Settings

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by onehothemi

Here are my current and updated settings for my XBR5 I set them by hand by eye no tools, disks, and other stuff. Tell me if you like the settings or not. I am using an Onkyo TX-SR606 pass through to the HDMI 1 port on the XBR5 via a PS3.

PICTURE:
Picture Mode: Custom
Backlight: 0-3
Picture: 88
Brightness: 48
Color: 52
Hue: 0
Color Tempreature: Warm 2
Sharpness: 40
Noise Reduction: Off
MPEG Noise Reduction: Off
DRC Mode: Off
DRC Palette: Off
Black Corrector: Off
Advanced C.E.: Off
Gamma: Off
Clear White: Off
Color Space: Standard
Live Color: Off
White Balance: All Set To : 0
Detail Enhancer: Off
Edge Enhancer: Off

SCREEN
Wide Mode: Full
Auto Wide: Off
4:3 Default: Off
Display Area: Full Pixel
Screen Position: All Set To : 0

VIDEO OPTIONS
Motion Enhancer: Off (this is personal preference)
CineMotion: Auto2 (this is personal preference)
Game/Text Mode: Off
Video/Photo Optimizer: Video-A
Video Color Space (x.v.Color): x.v.Color
Photo Color Space: sYCC
Color Matrix: Auto
RGB Dynamic Range: Full

DVE disk is cheap. It will encourage you to drastically change the settings you have chosen subjectively. I changed the settings above to what will be closer to an accurate picture, I guarantee it. If you read reviews, check TweakTV, or make even the least complicated attempt at an accurate picture, it will be much close to the settings I have chosen above. Backlight 0 for a batcave, 3 for a bright rooom. Settings for XBR Sony sets are all very similar.

[onehothemi]

I have to be honest with you, and LET IT BE KNOWN, I mean no disrespect to other members but I'm going to air this out, as we all know settings really come down to personal perference, but the settings you modified in my opinion look horrible. The warm setting drives me nuts, it turns everything to look brown and nutty colored. Reducing the blacklight, kills blacks in my opinion and makes everything in general far to dark to properly decern the difference between blacks and dark greys. The settings I had listed were produced and tweaked by Harvey Electronics in my area, and were done by a meter. I've gone thru all of the major magazines, online articles, and sites, and all list the warm2 option as the best possible setting, and I just don't see it, visually, on my screen. After watching parts of Batman TDK, and Bangcock Dangerous using my settings and the general settings I've seen posted all over with the warm2 and auto features off, I really think my settings look better for this particular tv. I guess the best way to see what looks better would be to have two XBR5's next to eachother with the desired settings and let people vote on them, thank you for your input however. Any different perspective is always welcomed.

[carbonS54]

^Warm 2 looks weird to me too....my settings are pretty close to yours on warm 1 with the backlight at 3 and I adjusted the blue/red/green using this thread as a starting point.....now my xbr6 with a PS3 and not so friccin bright either like before

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by onehothemi

I have to be honest with you, and LET IT BE KNOWN, I mean no disrespect to other members but I'm going to air this out, as we all know settings really come down to personal perference, but the settings you modified in my opinion look horrible. The warm setting drives me nuts, it turns everything to look brown and nutty colored. Reducing the blacklight, kills blacks in my opinion and makes everything in general far to dark to properly decern the difference between blacks and dark greys. The settings I had listed were produced and tweaked by Harvey Electronics in my area, and were done by a meter. I've gone thru all of the major magazines, online articles, and sites, and all list the warm2 option as the best possible setting, and I just don't see it, visually, on my screen. After watching parts of Batman TDK, and Bangcock Dangerous using my settings and the general settings I've seen posted all over with the warm2 and auto features off, I really think my settings look better for this particular tv. I guess the best way to see what looks better would be to have two XBR5's next to eachother with the desired settings and let people vote on them, thank you for your input however. Any different perspective is always welcomed.

To each his own. You're the one who asked, if we liked them. I am in no way offended, if you don't like what I suggested. I'd be interested to see your calibration charts, though. Maybe your player has picture settings as well?

[steve1971]

Since you HD is the KDL40V4100 I would put the setting on what I have mine set to:

My settings for my Sony KDL46V4100:

Standard Setting:

Backlight: 5
Picture: 80
Brightness: 50
Color: 50
Hue: 0
Color Temp: Natural
Sharpness: 15
NR: Low
Mpeg NR: Low

Advanced Settings: Factory Settings


Your HD is just a little smaller then mine granted but give those settings a try and see if you like them.

[Uberbot]

In the first year I had my XBR4 I mostly used settings found on http://tjexbr.wiki.zoho.com/
A few of the settings on that site are professional calibrations giving you a fairly realistic picture and I used some of those settings as a base to push the sharpness and color a bit more than recommended. Below are the settings I currently work around. It seems to be the best general setting I've used. The image looks good in a dark or light room, live action, animation, games, etc. Screen shots are in my HT gallery.

Give it a try and throw me some feedback if you make changes you prefer.


SONY KDL-52XBR4

PICTURE
Picture Mode: Cinema
Backlight: 3
Picture: 95
Brightness: 50
Color: 62
Hue: R1
Color Temperature: Warm 1
Sharpness: 65
Noise Reduction: Off
MPEG Noise Reduction: Off
DRC Mode: Off
DRC Palette: Off
Black Corrector: off
Advanced C.E.: Low
Gamma: Low
Clear White: Low
Color Space: Standard
Live Color: Off
White Balance:
R-Gain -1
G-Gain -4
B-Gain 0
R-Bias 0
G-Bias -3
B-Bias 0

Detail Enhancer: High
Edge Enhancer: Medium

SCREEN
Wide Mode: Full
Auto Wide: On
4:3 Default: off
Display Area: Full Pixel
Screen Position: All Set To : 0

VIDEO OPTIONS
Motion Enhancer: Med
CineMotion: Auto1
Game/Text Mode: Off
Video/Photo Optimizer: Video-A
Video Color Space (x.v.Color): Auto
Photo Color Space: sYCC
Color Matrix: --
RGB Dynamic Range:

GENERAL
Power Saving : OFF

[xtreme02gt]

Anyone have Custom settings for the Sony 40-W4100? I have a very dark room.

[Colglizity]

Anyone have the older 2005 model: Sony KLV-S32A10 settings? I've looked EVERYWHERE... please help!

[eagle 10]

Just purchased a Sony KDL 46 XBR 5 and would like help on calibrating the different picture settings without buying a calibration cd. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Uberbot]

Originally Posted by eagle 10

Just purchased a Sony KDL 46 XBR 5 and would like help on calibrating the different picture settings without buying a calibration cd. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Just a couple of posts up I have a link to a website dedicated to XBR settings and listed my favorite setting for my own XBR4. The XBR5 is the same TV so you should be good to go.

[xZEUSx]

Does anyone have settings for KDL-40WL140?

[sonnyworld85]

Does anyone have the settings for a Sony KDL-46S4100 LCD HDTV??

[onehothemi]

I went out and bought the DVE disk, the DTS / Dolby Demo disk, and I used the Bluray Retail Demo disk version 2.2 same as Sony displays on their Kiosk units and ran all the tests. My final settings. The more I futzz the same it looks. These are my final settings that I now use on all my HDMI inputs, if you like em sweet, but like they say, to each is own... I now only play around with Motion Enhancer depending on what I am watching, playing and so on.

PICTURE:
Picture Mode: Custom
Backlight: 8
Picture: 85
Brightness: 45
Color: 50
Hue: 0
Color Tempreature: Neutral
Sharpness: Min
Noise Reduction: Off
MPEG Noise Reduction: Off
DRC Mode: Off
DRC Palette: Off
Black Corrector: Low
Advanced C.E.: Low
Gamma: Off
Clear White: Low
Color Space: Wide
Live Color: Off
White Balance: All Set To : 0
Detail Enhancer: High
Edge Enhancer: High

SCREEN
Wide Mode: Full
Auto Wide: On
4:3 Default: Full
Display Area: Full Pixel
Screen Position: All Set To : 0

VIDEO OPTIONS
Motion Enhancer: Standard
CineMotion: Auto1
Game/Text Mode: Off
Video/Photo Optimizer: Video-A
Video Color Space (x.v.Color): x.v.Color
Photo Color Space: sYCC
Color Matrix: Auto
RGB Dynamic Range: Full

[CJS234]

Hey guys,

Im looking for some good settings for my Sony KDL-52W4100. I tried the settings that one member posted but they look bad (to me). They look kinda blurry and the colors seemed off. Any help would be truly appreciated.

Thanks,
CJS234

[d.white]

anybody with a sony 70" sxrd what are your settings

[Road Warrior]

My Tv was calibrated by a Qualified Technician ISF member for $350 I hope can help some one.
PICTURE
Picture Mode: Custom
Backlight: 2
Picture: 85
Brightness: 52
Color: 52
Hue: 0
Color Temperature: Warm 2
Sharpness: 30
Noise Reduction: Off
MPEG Noise Reduction: Off
DRC Mode: Off
DRC Palette: Off

ADVANCE SETTINH
Black Corrector: Off
Advanced C.E.: Off
Gamma: Off
Clear White: Low
Color Space: Standard
Live Color: Off

WHITE BALANCE
R-Gain: -2
G-Gain: -1
B-Gain: 0
R-Bias: -3
G-Bias: 0
B-Bias: 1
Detail Enhancer: Off
Edge Enhancer: Off

SCREEN
Wide Mode: Full
Auto Wide: ON
4:3 Default: Off
Display Area: +1
Screen Position: 0
Vertical Size: 0

VIDEO OPTIONS
Motion Enhancer: Off
CineMotion: Auto1
Game/Text Mode: Off
Video/Photo Optimizer: Video-A
Video Color Space (x.v.Color): Auto
Photo Color Space: sYCC
Color Matrix: ITU601
RGB Dynamic Range: Auto

[d.white]

what are your settings. do you use vivid or custom.

[onehothemi]

I found something interesting... I was playing around... with my settings two posts up, and dropped the Sharpness all the way down to Min, and set the Motion Enhancer to High, and the CineMotion to Auto1, and there was little to no ghosting or halo effect on high motion objects. The TV looks exactly as it does in the Sony store kiosks, and the picture is almost perfect. I watched Indy Jones Skull for the THX picture and it looks amazing. The picture is so fluid and smooth. I'm going to play around with the Edge & Detail Enhancers and see where it gets me also. Just wanted to share. It all depends on how you like the 120hz motion. Plus I don't think Shapness, after the DVE and Disney calibration disks makes any difference on true 1080p/24p video.

* I now set the Detail Enhancer to Medium & the Edge Enhancer to High and it looks perfect to me... Let me know what you think...!

Also the difference between Detail Enhancer from Off to High is night and day, there was NONE if any disernable difference by my eyes with 20/20 vision between Medium and High so I set it to Medium. The detail enhancer seems to do what sharpness would do for lower resolution images but much more cleanly.

I am also curious to know if the display units at the Sony Style stores are ISF calibrated for their high end models, and if service menus have been tweaked. I noticed a bit of haloing even on the XBR5 in the Sony store and in Best Buy with Kiosk demo disks so I got the Bluray Experience demo disk the latest version, and the ghosting was little to none. I bet the issue could be tweaked via the service menu, if not a firmware update for the tv.

As a tripple side note, I find when the room is cooler, and equipment is cooler and now that I moved the tv a bit more away from the wall there is less artifacting, possibly due to over heating and or sluggish display response due to the higher ambient temperature in the room from the radiator and heat due to the winter cold. So I gave up with the heater and everything seems a bit more stable.... who knows tho it could be a placebo effect.

[Uberbot]

Originally Posted by onehothemi

I found something interesting... I was playing around... with my settings two posts up, and dropped the Sharpness all the way down to Min, and set the Motion Enhancer to High, and the CineMotion to Auto1, and there was little to no ghosting or halo effect on high motion objects. The TV looks exactly as it does in the Sony store kiosks, and the picture is almost perfect. I watched Indy Jones Skull for the THX picture and it looks amazing. The picture is so fluid and smooth. I'm going to play around with the Edge & Detail Enhancers and see where it gets me also. Just wanted to share. It all depends on how you like the 120hz motion. Plus I don't think Shapness, after the DVE and Disney calibration disks makes any difference on true 1080p/24p video.

Great! I am a big fan of motion flow on high so I will test out your settings and report back!! Without understanding the inner working of the tech, lowering the sharpness seems to make sense. However, I would think boosting the edge and detail enhancers would recreate the problem higher sharpness gives. We'll see!

[Uberbot]

I made the changes and checked the same scene in Spider-man 3 with sharpness reduced and at various color settings. Nothing I did minimized the halo effect in fast moving high detail scenes. Major cities, jungles and window blinds are killers for motion flow on high!!! Sadly, no solution has been found and probably never will. All TV's have their flaws and with the XBR4/5 it is ghosting and the halo effect.