I currently have a Sony Xbr970 CRT HDTV. I love it, but I know my settings and picture can improve. I've heard of discs like Avia and DVE along with GetGray are essentially the most popular calibration DVD's. But, are any of these geared mainly towards CRT HDTV's? Or rather, do they all do the job regardless of the type of HDTV you have. Thanks dudes.

I currently have a Sony Xbr970 CRT HDTV. I love it, but I know my settings and picture can improve. I've heard of discs like Avia and DVE along with GetGray are essentially the most popular calibration DVD's. But, are any of these geared mainly towards CRT HDTV's? Or rather, do they all do the job regardless of the type of HDTV you have. Thanks dudes.

I know Avia is an older DVD, and aimed towards CRT TV's. I own both Avia, and DVE though.

Greetings

Get gray ... AVIA ... DVE ... all are fine for CRT sets and all have the right patterns you need to set up the TV.

OF course without a light meter, you really can't set up contrast quite right ... as needle pulse patterns only tell you where not to set contrast ... rather than where to set it.

A 100% white window box pattern is a good rule of thumb method for contrast. IF it hurts your eyes to look at it ... then the contrast is still too high.

A light meter reading about 30 ft-l off this window box white pattern is the way to set contrast.

Regards

I would actually sort of disagree with Michael about getgray for CRT. It is missing geometry type patterns, needle pulses etc which can be helpful for CRT. CRT is/was expressly not considered when doing the patterns for getgray, so while Avia and DVE are great choices no matter the display type, get gray is specifically useful for digital displays and so it may be helpful as a supplement for CRTs, but there are patterns I'd want from Avia/DVE that are basically CRT specific.

So, I ordered the Avia DVD. So whats this light meter? Its basically a something I really need I guess. What brand name is good? Where can I buy this light meteR?

Greetings

Yeah, Chris is right about Get Gray ... not so CRT friendly ... although I could use it for a CRT ... you likely can't ... unless you had a light meter.

The overscan pattern on the disc can be used for geometry ... and sharpness and centering as it says.

The only contrast friendly pattern would be the 100% white window box. You'd boost contrast until the edges of the white box begin to soften ... (bloom). when this happens you back off contrast until the white edge solidifies again. But as mentioned earlier ... it simply tells you where not to set the contrast level. Not where it should be set. Bending needle pulse lines also don't tell us where contrast should be set.

Where not to set the contrast level is like the 7000 rpm red line on the car. We know we should not drive above 7000 rpm ... but does that mean that 6950 rpm is okay? (Of course we see that typical engine rpm seems to be around 2000 to 3000 range.)

The light meter can just be a camara light meter if it gives you readings in ft-L ... or it could be much more expensive. My Minolta CS200 also gives me light readings, but the unit costs $11500 ...

Regards

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Bump for what? There's three solutions, and ISF calibration.

Avia, DVE, GetGray are the available DVD's..