I have Sanyo Z4 with approximately 60 hours on it. My screen is a 8' wide anamorphic DIY UPW. My players are HD-DVD and BLU-RAY. My cable is component ,but might one day go with HDMI. The cable length from my players to the projector is 30'. I have 100% light control. My question is....what's the best calibration for my setup or does anybody have some setting I could try?

I have a Z4 and the HD-A2 using HDMI, ceiling mounted with lens about 10.5' from a 106 inch diagonal 16:9 matt white screen. Here's my favorite setting:

1080i seems to still work best with the A2.
Start with Image->Natural.
Color temp->Low2.
Lamp control->Auto2.
Gamma->0.
Advanced menu->Lamp iris->Auto.
Advanced menu->Auto black stretch->Off.
Advanced menu->Contrast enhancement->Off.
Advanced menu->Transient improvement->Off.
Use Avia (or other means) to adjust brightness/contrast/color/tint/sharpness.
Store in one of the User images.
Set the Lens iris while watching some outdoor scenes such that they look realistic while maintaining the lowest setting. I like 24, but I don't have 100% light control, but still a dark room. You may begin to notice the lamp iris action more as you use brighter settings, but I think the contrast improvement with the auto iris modes is well worth using it. I haven't done much testing between the auto1 and auto2 modes yet.

Try keeping your sharpness at -7 and be sure to use the filters to set the color/tint in Avia. Brightness/Contrast will probably be right around the 0 setting (especially with HDMI and the L1 setting). You may like the gamma bumped up a few notches; I keep playing with the 0 - 2 range.

If you find that you've actually been watching the film for the last ten minutes instead of tweaking the settings, then you are probably close enough for now and save the settings again because you will return to the last saved settings next time you turn on the Z4, i.e., if you select User 3 and then bump up the gamma from 0 to 2, if you don't save this setting you will be back at 0 again next time you turn on the Z4 (you probably know this by now, but even though I knew it, I kept forgetting).

Hope this helps.

-George