I received my Sony VW40 from AVS this last Friday, and I had Jason Turk QC and calibrate it for me before he shipped it off. The PQ looks awesome, no complaints at all, but I'm wondering if there is some basic tweaking I should do myself to optimize the projector for MY viewing environment and setup? I'm specifically wondering about black level/brightness adjustment, as I it seems that the interactions with the screen, room, etc. could make this setting more environment dependent. My sources normally used for viewing are a Toshiba A-30 for SD and HD-DVD, and a PS3 for Blu-ray, and I suppose these sources could/should be tweaked individually as well. BTW, I do have an AVIA disc that I have used a fair amount on my RPTV.

Write down your existing numbers and tweak away. You can always go back to them.

scott

I don't know about the Sony, but my Sim2 has several memories per input. It's easy to have a D65 calibrated setting, or something more "hot" for material shot on video or sports.

In the end, I kind of got away from orthodoxy here and tweak to my own preferences depending on the source material.

TA

I'd still set the black and white levels using a test disk. It's quite possible that the levels being output from your setup will be different to Jasons, especially if he used a signal generator. I've found that after calibrating a pj on my set up, when it's on another system the black and white levels can be out enough to cause a colour temp change above 90IRE. Other than that, greyscale should still be pretty close.

Gary

I'd still set the black and white levels using a test disk. It's quite possible that the levels being output from your setup will be different to Jasons, especially if he used a signal generator. I've found that after calibrating a pj on my set up, when it's on another system the black and white levels can be out enough to cause a colour temp change above 90IRE. Other than that, greyscale should still be pretty close.

Gary

I went ahead and checked it out, and the black levels (brightness) were right on, but I bumped up the white levels (contrast) up a little. I may tweak a little more based off what it looks like to me, but it looks pretty darned good right now. Thanks for the input.