Display Calibration for the Budgetless

J

j1clark@ucsd.edu

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So after several years of fighting with the Wife, I've finally looked into some calibration tools for our 32" Vizio display...

Now perhaps some folk have the money/resources for fancy displays, real monitors, etc. but for those of us who don't have those sorts of things, what are the various tools that people have used to get the best out of what they have.

Here's what I've started to look into.

THX Optimizer -- a calibration sequence on some DVD's and BLU-RAY's on disks that have been THX certified.

I had the Terminator 2 BD disk, and went through the procedure. We had already setup to use a custom setup, and the procedure only produce a few 'slight' changes. When I played a different BD program, 'Harry Potter: Half Blood Prince", I had to adjust the brightness to get something almost looked 'ok'... so, something tells me that THX Optmizer is not a 'global' calibration tool...

AVS Forum has a DVD and a BD set of test clips.

I've downloaded but not used the following set of stuff from AVS Forum:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=948496

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So what else to people used for their 'cheap' setups?
 
to do a basic calibration , adjusting brightness , contrast to make sure your not clipping certain information can be easily done with the AVS-disc which i use personally and recommend. the spears and munsil bluray is a good one too.

to do a proper ISF rec709 calibration of gamma , 6500k color temperature, color and tint you will need a laptop , software and a meter that measures light. I personally use an eyeone pro , but ISF calibrators tend to have the more expensive meters like the minolta.

keep in mind , u have to have the ability to control certain settings. does visio have controls for white balance and gamma? also a Color management system is another great control to calibrate the correct color space.

an isf calibration runs about 400-500 dollars depending on how involved the calibration is.
 
Ok, I perhaps should have been clearer...

I was interested in how folks calibrate/adjust their displays for 'playing' BD/DVD.

But you have brought up using the big screen directly from the computer... At least I think you did..., and for that I do have a Spyder unit that I've been using for the Wife's screen for her still work.

Had I the time, I might think about a application that would take the data from the color sensor, and assist in calibrating the display, using the display's controls, rather than some computer profile,
which would only be used when the display was attached to the computer.

For example, the THX Optimizer had one sequence were the primary and secondary colors where displayed, and the 'operation' was to adjust the Cyan and Magenta colors to 'look correct'... well... ok... sure...
(I didn't send in for the blue glasses...)

As I indicated I've not used the AVS package to know whether it also requires a certain amount of 'subjective' evaluation.
 
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