Sony XBR2 and Panny BD-player best settings?

[Gblu001]

Hi, i'm new to this forum and i read this site like everyday literally and i just recently purchased the 46inch Sony XBR2 and paired with Panny BD player. I love both of these. I just have a question and hopefully someone can help me out here what is the best possible picture setting for the XBR2, i have tried couple different settings but if someone got an absolute great picture setting on theirs and wont mind telling me it will be greatly appreciated .................and oh yeah there is no cloud problem on my TV.

[Ralph P.]

Greetings,

You may get more responses if you indicate what problem (if any) you are having or what options the Sony has in terms of picture settings. Relying on finding a forum member who has the Sony and the Panasonic may not yield any replies at all.

I have a Sony front projector (VPL-VW50) and it is possible that there are settings that are similar which could be helpful to you.

[Gblu001]

i dont know but what are some suggestions you would recommend

[Gblu001]

Does anyone know or have the best picture settings possible for the Sony XBR2? this will be very helpful to me thanks

[Deciazulado]

Well if you point us out to an online version of the manual, maybe we could do sugesstions. (maybe owners of XBR2 and Pannys might chime in later too.

In the meantime, general suggestions are looking for "standard" or "neutral" or "D6500" or maybe "warm" instead of things like "games" "sports" named settings, and checking things with a DVD test disc or the THX optimizer in the Terminator 2 Blu-ray and typing 7669 with the remote on the Sony Blu-ray discs to get some calibration patterns. (Make black truly black, don't have the whites exploding, have normal saturated color bars etc) For the sharpness setting either use the test patterns with the resolution lines, or in paractice, I'd put some great looking Blu-ray and start with it at the minimum setting and bring it up slowly till the image comes into 'focus" from your sitting distance, but without making everything look VHS video-like edges oversharp.
You also have to check what deinterlacer options you have, if any.


Remember that the the Panasonic player I believe also has some of these controls repeated, so leave them at the default setting for now and adjust the Blu-ray input with the TV controls first, or you might be playing double control jeopardy. (You could use Pannys controls later for further tweaking, if needed.)

[Ralph P.]

Greetings,

Remember that the the Panasonic player I believe also has some of these controls repeated, so leave them at the default setting for now and adjust the Blu-ray input with the TV controls first, or you might be playing double control jeopardy. (You could use Pannys controls later for further tweaking, if needed.)

This is correct. Sorry for not replying back sooner. What I menat was that you indicate that you have tried different settings. What settings have you tried and are you referring to picture settings like contrast, brightness, sharpness, and color/hue? If so those will be dependant on your set in your environment however there are some basic guideline (as stated above) that will get you into the ballpark.

Beginning with a calibration disc like Digital Video Essentials will help quite a bit. In it's absence the THX Optimizer on one of the DVD's in your collection will get you started.

I agree also that starting with a Warm color temp setting and the video preset mode "Movie" or "Cinema" would be a good start as this setting disables most of the picture distorting enhancements that can cause image quality problems.

Would it be possible for you to provide your current settings from the set's video setup menu?

[Gblu001]

well i just wanted to know if anyone would recommend if i should set these picture,brightness,color,Hue, sharpness to a high number or low number and on the xbr2 on the picture settings it gives u either a choice of vivid (which makes the picture more coloful and i have seen that this is greatly helpful when watchign blu rays because it looks near perfect) standard (which makes the picture looks, well standard) and there is custom (which can lead you to choosing many different settings such as black corrector, Detail Enhancer and Edge Enhancer among others).