I never even knew about calibration untill i signed up to get a free disc on Slickdeals.

Now I am curious abuot it - I bought a 42" Westinghouse 1080p set in December and am interested in tuning it up.

I want to know how much of a difference it actually makes in PQ. I always thought the standard-def pictures looked kind of washed out on the TV but I have never made any adjustments on the TV at all.

Also, does anyeon know if changes are global on teh westinghouse or if they are input-specific i.e. adjusting settings on YPPbR1 stays on that setting and adjustments to HDMI stay there.

I tried searching but couldn't find a similar thread... thanks for the help!

Greetings

Asked many many times before, the answer is still the same. Images will simply look different at best.

Too many variables involved that reduce and affect image quality along the way.

Camera quality
Skill of photographer
Compression used
and the kicker ...

Looking at what is supposed to be an accurate image on an "inaccurate display."

As master Chris W has mentioned before, this is like asking us to give you a tape recording of a high end audio system performance and you play it back on your home theater in a box. "That's not so great ... well duh ... " :)

Regards

Thanks,

I still figured you could at elast tell because the bad one would b eREALLY BAD and the good one would look better, so you could at least get an idea of comparison before vs. after, even if your particular monitor is not calibrated you know.

Thanks for the response though

Greetings

And don't forget that everyone's TV starts off at a different place in image quality.

It's like asking us how long a piece of string is?

The correct answer is "4" ...

But we don't know what the wrong answer is that you have ... 2+2=9 ... 19 ... 99 ....

9 is closer to 4 ...
19 is further out ...
99 is way out ...

Now what is your TV?

A guy could show you a picture that is 4.1 versus 4 ... and you'd say there is virtually no difference. But would that mean that the TV that is 99 would not benefit then?

Regards

I recall a couple calibrator's website that has some pictures up, but they are kind of exaggerated changes from a pretty messed up set to begin with (which isn't particulaly abnormal unfortunately). There isn't a whole lot meaningful that they really convey though because they'll look messed up in your system since it's not calibrated. You'll be looking at a super-messed up image and then it changed to a messed up image. Doesn't really give you a good idea of what things SHOULD look like.

If you've never made any changes, start with a basic setup with DVE, Avia, GetGray and use settings at the very least.