Callibrating TVs

[Jase Fox]

Many people on here get frustrated with callibrating there tvs, brightness, colour etc & alot of folk have such faith in the THX test disc, ok ye its a good way of starting you off & giving you an idea? But the main thing you should have faith in is your own "eyes"!! What quality of picture may look good to you maynot be good to others so with anything its down to whats best for you. On the THX disc the contrast setting part is fairly accurate, i turn it up to around 3 quarters as for the brightness setting if you turn the brightness down to were the drop shadow just disappears but u can still see the THX logo that setting is way to high!! it needs to be lower than that i do it the old fashioned & more accurate way & thats watch a 2.35:1 w/s transfer & turn the brightness high & then bring it down to were the black bars look black & not grey, do this in the dark with no lights on at all. For the colour nevermind all this wearing glasses & filter crap (whatever next)?? just put a good colour source on i find "red planet" being the best to use & turn the colour off & then gradually turn up the colour to were the reds look nice & natural & not to overblown, so mainly trust your eyes!! my picture is spot on, my local hifi/home cinema store used to get me to callibrate there tvs as customers used to say that its a great picture & My settings work with both SD & HD content. ON my plasma it doesnt give you a number of how high youve got your settings as any1 with the panny 50PZ7OOB will be aware but if any1 who has this plasma then itll me my pleasure to give you the measurments in inches etc as to how far you have to have em turned up!!