I just picked up a Toshiba 42rv530. I understand it's relatively new, but I was wondering what setting do people use for their Regzas?

I need to see some other people settings to see if they would work for my LCD.

Thanks in advance!

I used tools to calibrate mine.

Using other peoples settings is of very little value, it's just as often off as on. TV's themselves have quite a bit of variation from set to set.

Your best bet is to get a DVD and some blue filter glases and tune it by eye for black/white and color and tint and don't worry about anything else.

The few setting I can say for sure you should change is set your color temprature to warm and you backlight at about 50. I can say these things because they are not precise and warm is closer to right than anything else and as for brightness you final target brightness is also subject to user prefrence, but 100 is way way too bright and will cause eye strain. I also recomend turning off dynalight and dynamic contrast.

I also have a 42rv530.

excuse my newbieness, but what are blue filter glasses? and which dvd do you prefer? i'm interested on gaining some first hand experience by trying this out

i'm new to this whole calibration thing. the closest i've come to calibration is on videogames

btw... what are your user settings for your 42rv?

these are teh glasses
http://costore.com/thx/productenlarged.asp?peid=87&pid=930793

free... the THX menu on any pixar DVD

basically something like Digitial video essentials, avia or one of the other commercial calibration DVDs will give you an indepth walk thru of why you are doing what you are doing as opposed to the very direct instructions on the THX section of a disc with very little why.

my user settings are mostly centered because I adjusted the center in the service menu.

these are teh glasses
http://costore.com/thx/productenlarged.asp?peid=87&pid=930793

free... the THX menu on any pixar DVD

basically something like Digitial video essentials, avia or one of the other commercial calibration DVDs will give you an indepth walk thru of why you are doing what you are doing as opposed to the very direct instructions on the THX section of a disc with very little why.

my user settings are mostly centered because I adjusted the center in the service menu.

hey thanks! i'll rent a pixar blu-ray and buy those glasses to give it a shot. i thought the glasses were going to be more expensive than that.

i read somewhere in this forum that avia is coming out with a blu-ray calibration disc. i'll wait for that as i have a lot to learn

I'm not 100% it's on the blu-ray versions, not blu ray for me :(

hey thanks! i'll rent a pixar blu-ray and buy those glasses to give it a shot. i thought the glasses were going to be more expensive than that.

i read somewhere in this forum that avia is coming out with a blu-ray calibration disc. i'll wait for that as i have a lot to learn

Just remember, the calibrations that come with movies don't provide patterns for color decoder compensation. And just by eye alone I can tell that most TVs(LCD or old tube) don't have natural color until user color is lowered to around 20-40 out of 100.

And the fault is not just with a jacked up internal color center setting, but coupled with a misadjusted decoder. Most decoders violate red or green(no sense in pushing blue as the grayscale is already around 10-12,000K!) Decoder check patterns, when views through color filters, will allow you to set color to a "compromise" setting that reduces the offending color to a reasonable level without reducing the other two excessively.

IE: Avia's color decoder check may show blue and green to be emphasizing 0%(neither pushing or suppressing those colors), while red may be pushed as much as 20-30% when viewed with the red filter. You will be instructed to reduce saturation till red is no more than 10% emphasized. Green and blue will be under emphasized( minus 10%) at that point - but remember, we're doing a compromise with user color. More advanced tweaking of the color decoder can be done with special patterns and test equipment, such as that of an ISF technician.

Also: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CORRECT COLOR DECODER FLAWS WITH THE BIAS/OFFSET AND DRIVE/GAIN CONTROLS!!!! Those are only for setting grayscale. That's right - the patterns used to set those are combinations of black, white, and millions of values of GRAY.

Even if you use the original Avia(1999)-which has a decoder check under special tests - you are still doing way more than you can with THX optimizer or Pixar.

regards,