Hello,

Recently, I was over at a friend's house for a brief moment. I was walkin around and saw Ratatalouie playing on their HDTV. I was amazed at how much "pop" or "window effect" i was getting from standing there. The TV, I forget, but its either a Samsung or Panasonic (I knwo this makes it hard since it means its either LCD or Plasma, but lets just assume its a Samsung).

So I immediately went home to rent the same movie on blu-ray and watch it on my ps3 + sony kdl-46v2500. my tv does NOT have proper ISF calibration (but im sure their tv doesn't either, and i doubt they even know the term). However I did search around on these forums for some settings by some of the more experienced users + Cnet.

The PQ looks good, but im not getting as much WOWed by the movie on my screen. I don't get anywhere near the same level of "window effect." I'm sitting about 7-8 feet away and the lighting conditions have been both light and dark in the room.

Is my TV performing at its best and this is the best it can do? Or whats the secret? Please help.

I would appreciate advice for both PS3 and this TV.

Thanks

-Vinh

greetings

Please use a test disc like DVE or even something free like the THX optimode. The Rat film also has its own calibration test patterns.

The goal of calibration is to get it to meet a standard ... or else ... what really is the point? We should want the image to look as accurate as possible ... the way the film makers want it to look in the TV world.

Last time I looked out the window, the world does not look like a cartoon/CGI world.

regards

hmm what im wondering is, are the settings i chose in the regular menus good enough, or will going into the service menu and doing a "isf calibration" required?

because i keep hearing a lot of people talk about pop or window effect, in many movies that aren't CG based, i never really experienced that effect from my own tv set with variety of movies. am i doing something wrong?

I currently don't have the money for an ISF calibrator, don't have the proper equipment, and don't have any experience calibrating using service menus.

-Vinh

Greetings

ISF calibration on this set does not require accessing the service menu. The service menu is less usable with this generation of TV set.

The challenge is to take the right amount of the various options the TV provides you. Too much and you get poison ... just the right amount ... the accurate image.

Sort of like picking the right answer to 2+2=? ... Somewhere between 0 to 100 ... the answer is there ... but so are many wrong answers as well.

Spend the $23 and buy a test disc. You already spent $1000+ on the TV ...

Pro calibrations come later for those that understand why they need it.

Learn the basics from the test disc ... it isn't that hard at all.

Regards