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#152 ·

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Originally Posted by zerog6 /forum/post/14108173


I can't get it there I don't know what I could be doing wrong. If I do it the traditional way by going with the black bars, i'm getting a 10% white that is .0103 of the 100% white. Which is way too bright. And if I lower it to get .0065, the black bar test is completely crushed to where I can't even see the 4% bar. So idk what I can do?

I ignore the black bars. I have compared calibrated results with the basic calibration setup and basic is just not precise enough. (Not to mention the huge difference between the "Blue Screen" function and the blue filter that came with DVE with regards to color setting. I posted on this previously.)


Calculate your target Y for the 10% window, then do a continuous measurement while you adjust brightness to your target Y.


Remember that changing brightness will also change your overall 100% white Y value, even though you haven't changed your contrast. So you have to go back and forth a couple of times until you get the .0065 target.


Then if you are worried that you have crushed black, do a series of near black measurements and find out.


I don't know how the Spyder works, but the DTP-94 actually touches the screen lightly. After maybe 10-15 minutes it creates a little local brightness. This only effects the low measurements, so I move the probe (and recalibrate it) frequently. I think the local brightness is a heat phenomenon. I always turn the TV on with the probe on the screen but away from the measurement window and let them both warm up for 30 minutes before doing any measurements. Plus of course I recalibrate the probe immediately before doing a new set of measurements.
 
#153 ·
Alright tomorrow i'm gonna redo it according to my measurements instead of following the black bars.


As a general rule, brightness affects the lower IRE, while contrast affects the higher IRE correct? So if my gamma is too low on one end, I should need to adjust one or the other settings accordingly?


One more thing in case you might know, in the service menu, I have 2 different types of brightness and contrast settings. I have the regular user brightness and contrast, and then, there's a Sub-Brightness, and Sub-Contrast setting.

To my observations, whenever I changed the sub-brightness, the black bars were affected much more than the overall screen, where as, if I changed the regular user brightness, the overall screen was affected more than the black bars.


Would you happen to know what the differences are between those?

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Originally Posted by kjgarrison /forum/post/14108294


I ignore the black bars. I have compared calibrated results with the basic calibration setup and basic is just not precise enough. (Not to mention the huge difference between the "Blue Screen" function and the blue filter that came with DVE with regards to color setting. I posted on this previously.)


Calculate your target Y for the 10% window, then do a continuous measurement while you adjust brightness to your target Y.


Remember that changing brightness will also change your overall 100% white Y value, even though you haven't changed your contrast. So you have to go back and forth a couple of times until you get the .0065 target.


Then if you are worried that you have crushed black, do a series of near black measurements and find out.


I don't know how the Spyder works, but the DTP-94 actually touches the screen lightly. After maybe 10-15 minutes it creates a little local brightness. This only effects the low measurements, so I move the probe (and recalibrate it) frequently. I think the local brightness is a heat phenomenon. I always turn the TV on with the probe on the screen but away from the measurement window and let them both warm up for 30 minutes before doing any measurements. Plus of course I recalibrate the probe immediately before doing a new set of measurements.
 
#155 ·

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Originally Posted by ra004e /forum/post/14109040


Hey just borrowed a buddies Spyder 3 Elite, was gonna spend some time with it over next few days, Anyone have thing they want me to check out or try with this unit while I have it.

Hey ra004e!


Would you mind calibrating the unit and posting your results? I would appreciate that very much! I have an A650 but I believe the panels are similar enough to warrant trying out your settings!
 
#156 ·

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Originally Posted by kjgarrison /forum/post/14106165


Thanks. Your CIE is just amazing. You are so close to spec that the Y values are almost "perfect CIE" ratios compared to white Y even with Accupel calculations.


I am going to test your settings and see if I can get my red closer to CIE spec. Green too.


One thing I might suggest. Your contrast ratio is only 892:1 and gamma is 2.05. You didn't include any info about your contrast, brightness, gamma, HDMI Black settings, but I notice your 10%gray Y value is 2.090. Tom Huffman recommends that 10% gray Y should be adjusted with the Brightness control until it is 0.0063*100%white Y. For your white Y of 202.597, if your 10% gray Y was ~1.28 you would have a higher CR and gamma.


I know there are some issues with the Spyder probes in this regard, so maybe that's just not the correct value. For my 750 the brightness setting that gets there is 43-44 when contrast is set to 89.

my spyder 2 gave me only like 800:1 for my 71 series when you got 1300-1500 and the other guy got 1600-1800:1


and on my 244T I get like 950:1 with my X94 but my spyder2 gave only, I forget, maybe like 550:1??


So, I think the spyer2 might not be so good at measuring CR. OTOH, I wonder how much of the 750 is that it is better and how much was that your 5271 maybe was subpar? Probbaly it's just the 750 is that much better.
 
#157 ·

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Originally Posted by zerog6 /forum/post/14108173


I can't get it there I don't know what I could be doing wrong. If I do it the traditional way by going with the black bars, i'm getting a 10% white that is .0095 of the 100%, which is way too bright. And if I lower it to get .0065, the black bar test is completely crushed to where I can't even see the 4% bar. So idk what I can do?

trust the black bars. If you turn BL up to 8-10 and still can't make out (using vidoe levels) colors 17 or 18 then they are crushed, simple as that, no matter what any probe says.


and as I said, I could never get it to work out using the spyder2 either. Same exact experience as you are seeing.
 
#158 ·

Quote:
Originally Posted by ra004e /forum/post/14109040


Hey just borrowed a buddies Spyder 3 Elite, was gonna spend some time with it over next few days, Anyone have thing they want me to check out or try with this unit while I have it.

Any chance you can try calibrating the set with Dynamic Contrast set to low from the start & work your way to a somewhat accurate color temp/grayscale?
 
#161 ·
All of these are with default settings with one exception.


The exception is: Standard with Normal Color temp. By default this has dynamic contrast on medium, but I turned it off.


The rest are all default.


Movie with Normal, Warm1 and Warm2


Then with Movie/Normal and Movie/Warm1 I did just grayscale improvement.


These are the ColorHCFR files. You can download ColorHCFR here:
http://www.homecinema-fr.com/colorimetre/index_en.php

 

standard normal default except dyn cont off.zip 0.9248046875k . file

 

movie normal default.zip 4.080078125k . file

 

movie normal then grayscale.zip 0.947265625k . file

 

movie warm1 default.zip 0.90625k . file

 

movie warm1 then grayscale.zip 3.4375k . file
 

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#162 ·
Here is Movie/Warm2. Again just the measurements with everything reset.

Finally here is Run5 which is a full calibration of Movie/Warm1. The settings are shown in the comments section.


This is a better grayscale than my other settings, but in doing A/B there is basically no clear difference.


My main problem is that I can't get the red primary in the right location. I suspect either it can't be done, or it requires going into the service menu.


Maybe it is better just to leave green, which was the big problem with the 71 and just as big a problem with the 750 except that it can be moved, alone.

 

movie warm2 default.zip 0.869140625k . file

 

750 RUN 5 MOVIE WARM1.zip 4.5029296875k . file
 

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#163 ·

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Originally Posted by kjgarrison /forum/post/14113281


Here is Movie/Warm2. Again just the measurements with everything reset.

Finally here is Run5 which is a full calibration of Movie/Warm1. The settings are shown in the comments section.


This is a better grayscale than my other settings, but in doing A/B there is basically no clear difference.


My main problem is that I can't get the red primary in the right location. I suspect either it can't be done, or it requires going into the service menu.


Maybe it is better just to leave green, which was the big problem with the 71 and just as big a problem with the 750 except that it can be moved, alone.

Can't open those files,,,,nor the ones in the first post. What format are they using and where can I find it?
 
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#166 ·
#167 ·

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Originally Posted by kjgarrison /forum/post/14087878


Pattern is Rec709 (Blu-ray), PS3.

PS3 settings

RGB LIMITED

YpBCr ON

YpBCR Superwhite ON

It is my understanding that the Superwhite feature on the PS3 enables xvYcc. Is this correct? I didn't see it listed but do you have the TV also set to xvYcc? Could that lead to some of the calibration issues you are having with the red and green primaries?


I'm following the discussion between you and zerog6 very closely as my set arrives soon. I'm having a lot of trouble not ordering that i1 LT...


I looked at the files in ColorHCFR and that Run 5 may not be perfect but it looks really darn close, probably enough to make just about most people darn happy. Are you planning on posting how you got those results? And are they all still in the user menus?
 
#168 ·

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Originally Posted by Shawn Parr /forum/post/14113933


It is my understanding that the Superwhite feature on the PS3 enables xvYcc. Is this correct? I didn't see it listed but do you have the TV also set to xvYcc? Could that lead to some of the calibration issues you are having with the red and green primaries?


I'm following the discussion between you and zerog6 very closely as my set arrives soon. I'm having a lot of trouble not ordering that i1 LT...


I looked at the files in ColorHCFR and that Run 5 may not be perfect but it looks really darn close, probably enough to make just about most people darn happy. Are you planning on posting how you got those results? And are they all still in the user menus?

xvYcc is OFF


as far as posting "how", what do you mean? The settings or the method? Everything is done in the user menu. The resultant settings are shown in the file. If you mean the method, or a step by step process, sure I can do that when I have some spare time.
 
#169 ·

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Originally Posted by kjgarrison /forum/post/14114007


xvYcc is OFF


as far as posting "how", what do you mean? The settings or the method? Everything is done in the user menu. The resultant settings are shown in the file. If you mean the method, or a step by step process, sure I can do that when I have some spare time.

Sorry, between reading your post, and looking at the files in ColorHCFR, which I'm very new at, I forgot you mentioned the settings were in there. I really wanted the settings, although a full guide on how to do this would be great. I've read the 'Dummies Guide to Greyscale Calibration' that zerog6 linked to earlier, but I think I've seen you giving a bit more in-depth information.


For instance there are a couple points in the Dummies Guide that tells you what the calculation is to find the Y value you want to shoot for at specific IRE levels that they hit in that article, but it seems like you might have information for finding it at other levels not covered in that specific guide.


The other thing I'm interested in is how consistent the panels are. When I had my 4069 I found that some of the calibrations that were considered top notch on the forums didn't look very good on my set. They tended to have over saturated colors and seemingly the contrast was overdone so they seemed very noisy. The settings I dialed in with DVE by eye and filter, even though far from perfect, led to much more natural colors.


I'd be interested to see how your settings and zerog6's end up comparing. Especially if I eventually break down and get an i1 and can compare it to my own setup as well.


Speaking of which, I've been doing a bit of research for if I do get a colorimeter. Currently I don't have an HD player, my HD comes from my DirecTV HR21, so I can't use the AVS disc to get the color window patterns. Does anyone know somewhere that one can get those patterns for SD DVD? I think it would just need to be the color primaries and secondaries. DVE doesn't have it on their SD disk, and I've read the same is true of their HD disks.
 
#170 ·

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Originally Posted by Shawn Parr /forum/post/14116656


Sorry, between reading your post, and looking at the files in ColorHCFR, which I'm very new at, I forgot you mentioned the settings were in there. I really wanted the settings, although a full guide on how to do this would be great. I've read the 'Dummies Guide to Greyscale Calibration' that zerog6 linked to earlier, but I think I've seen you giving a bit more in-depth information.


For instance there are a couple points in the Dummies Guide that tells you what the calculation is to find the Y value you want to shoot for at specific IRE levels that they hit in that article, but it seems like you might have information for finding it at other levels not covered in that specific guide.


The other thing I'm interested in is how consistent the panels are. When I had my 4069 I found that some of the calibrations that were considered top notch on the forums didn't look very good on my set. They tended to have over saturated colors and seemingly the contrast was overdone so they seemed very noisy. The settings I dialed in with DVE by eye and filter, even though far from perfect, led to much more natural colors.


I'd be interested to see how your settings and zerog6's end up comparing. Especially if I eventually break down and get an i1 and can compare it to my own setup as well.


Speaking of which, I've been doing a bit of research for if I do get a colorimeter. Currently I don't have an HD player, my HD comes from my DirecTV HR21, so I can't use the AVS disc to get the color window patterns. Does anyone know somewhere that one can get those patterns for SD DVD? I think it would just need to be the color primaries and secondaries. DVE doesn't have it on their SD disk, and I've read the same is true of their HD disks.

Most of what I know comes from reading Tom Huffman's posts.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=852536


However, Tom's entire discussion is for people with a full featured CMS that allows for location of the primaries and secondaries at CIE spots.


If you don't have such a perfect color decoder, then you need to adjust two things. One is the luminance (Y) values for primaries and secondaries. The other is the location of primaries and secondaries as much as you can. There is a handy little calculator that shows what values to shoot for. It is the Accupel calculator.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...4#post14117674


Incidentally the 750 has a pretty close approximation to a full CMS. And maybe someplace in the service menu, the answer to my red problem lies. Now if I can only get up the courage to go in there.


As far as your plan to get a probe before you get a Blu-ray player, I would recommend purchasing the player. You can download the disc and at least do Basic Calibration. The player gives you other benefits, like the ability to sit and drool while you watch Planet Earth (regardless of your setting!)


Good luck.
 
#171 ·
Here is a step by step of the process I use. For anybody interested.


1. Turn TV on and put probe on the screen. Wait 30 minutes for temperatures to equilibrate. I have a wall mount and I tilt the TV enough so that the probe sits on the screen lightly.


2. Calibrate the probe if in ColorHCFR. Same for CalMAN, except that in CalMAN it is mandatory.


3. Get ready for a measurement run in ColorHCFR, quickly put the probe in the window and do the run. I usually do grayscale and color. I say "quickly" because after several minutes a little mura appears around the probe. So this first measurement is the best for the low end. (This is the principle I use for subsequent runs after I feel I've got the settings, grayscale and colors, as close as I can get them ... read below.)


4. I have a spreadsheet so that I can input my 100% gray Y value and see what my 10% gray Y value should be. I run a continuous measurement and adjust brightness while on a 10% gray window until I reach the target Y.


5. With the continuous measurement still running I do an "adjust gray", going back and forth between 25% gray and 75% gray, making adjustments in White Balance until x and y are as close to 0.313 and 0.329. Sometimes I do this with the grayscale going between 30% gray and 90% gray.


6. Next I run the grayscale measurement and look at the RGB graph to see what tweaks are needed. I make whatever adjustments is needed and run the grayscale again. If it looks good I move on. If not I tweak until it does. I verify that my 10% gray Y value is still at 0.0063*100% white Y value. If it needs to be adjusted I make sure grayscale is still OK. When grayscale is as good as I can get it and my 10%gray window Y value is at target, I start looking at color.


7. I then run the primary and secondary colors.


8. I manually input the xyY values for RGBYCM into the Accupel Calculator. I only look at the primary colors at this point, adjusting their xy coordinates and their Y values in Custom color until they are as close to what Accupel calls for as I can get them. I also might change the main Color control if this minimizes the amount of overall color adjustments I have to make with the primary colors (RGB).


9. I run the primary and secondary colors again, and again input the xyY values of all 6 colors into the Accupel Calculator. I verify that RGB are still good, per Accupel. If they are still OK, I then adjust the secondaries using the xyY values called for by the Accupel Calculator.


10. I then run primary and secondary colors again, and if everything looks good....


11. I recalibrate the probe and do grayscale plus color measurements from a different spot in the window.


12. I tweak grayscale and/or colors as called for.


13. Then I put the values in the run, save the run and post it here
 
#172 ·

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shawn Parr /forum/post/14116656


The other thing I'm interested in is how consistent the panels are. When I had my 4069 I found that some of the calibrations that were considered top notch on the forums didn't look very good on my set. They tended to have over saturated colors and seemingly the contrast was overdone so they seemed very noisy. The settings I dialed in with DVE by eye and filter, even though far from perfect, led to much more natural colors.


I'd be interested to see how your settings and zerog6's end up comparing. Especially if I eventually break down and get an i1 and can compare it to my own setup as well.


Well Samsung seems to changes the white balance in the service menu after a firmware upgrade & even on the same firmwares.

This if from the A650, someone took pictures of all of the sub menus in the service menu from all the different firmware upgrades & I compared my then 1003.M firmware & they were all different.


Code:
Code:
White Balance

                      1002.3      1003.G      1003.M      1003.M (mine)    2001.3

Sub Brightness          128          128           128          128            128
R_Offset                507          507           507          521            521
G_Offset                512          512           512          512            512
B_Offset                504          504           504          508            508
Sub Contrast            134          134           134          134            134
R_Gain                  518          518           518          497            497
G_Gain                  512          512           512          512            512
B_Gain                  500          500           500          510            510
Movie R-offset          516          506           506          522            520
Movie B-offset          509          506           506          509            507
Movie R-Gain            540          555           555          523            540
Movie R-Gain            396          398           398          420            411
If anyone does a final calibration, maybe they could post there service menu WB settings as well (going/leaving the service menu resets all of your normal settings btw).
 
#173 ·

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shawn Parr /forum/post/14116656


Sorry, between reading your post, and looking at the files in ColorHCFR, which I'm very new at, I forgot you mentioned the settings were in there. I really wanted the settings, although a full guide on how to do this would be great. I've read the 'Dummies Guide to Greyscale Calibration' that zerog6 linked to earlier, but I think I've seen you giving a bit more in-depth information.


For instance there are a couple points in the Dummies Guide that tells you what the calculation is to find the Y value you want to shoot for at specific IRE levels that they hit in that article, but it seems like you might have information for finding it at other levels not covered in that specific guide.


The other thing I'm interested in is how consistent the panels are. When I had my 4069 I found that some of the calibrations that were considered top notch on the forums didn't look very good on my set. They tended to have over saturated colors and seemingly the contrast was overdone so they seemed very noisy. The settings I dialed in with DVE by eye and filter, even though far from perfect, led to much more natural colors.


I'd be interested to see how your settings and zerog6's end up comparing. Especially if I eventually break down and get an i1 and can compare it to my own setup as well.


Speaking of which, I've been doing a bit of research for if I do get a colorimeter. Currently I don't have an HD player, my HD comes from my DirecTV HR21, so I can't use the AVS disc to get the color window patterns. Does anyone know somewhere that one can get those patterns for SD DVD? I think it would just need to be the color primaries and secondaries. DVE doesn't have it on their SD disk, and I've read the same is true of their HD disks.

you really need to use the exact same probe (each probe itself can easily be 2dE off and they, evne if the same type, are not always off in the same directions, although some probes like spyder2 are supposed to vary more probe to probe than certain others) and if you compare using two different probes you have even more issues.


it's too bad I didn't get my spyder2 sent out to KJ to do the comparison with same probe on same set. But perhaps I will end up with a 750 myself soon enough though, if the results using X94 don't match maybe I can still send over the spyder2 and we can see just how much or not the sets vary set to set.


EDIT: then again I don't have a PS3 so the source would be different and while that should not matter, seeing the color stats for ATI vs NVIDIA makes me think it might not be worth it.

maybe if two people use the same source and set and they are finding the settings posted here are not agreeing, they can share a probe on two sets and see what happens.
 
#174 ·

Quote:
Originally Posted by kjgarrison /forum/post/14119060


9. I run the primary and secondary colors again, and again input the xyY values of all 6 colors into the Accupel Calculator. I verify that RGB are still good, per Accupel. If they are still OK, I then adjust the secondaries using the xyY values called for by the Accupel Calculator.

But the guy who created the Accupel calculator even directly confirmed in the 71 series thread that you should always try to make them closest to REC601or709 and NOT use the accupel derived secondaries for the way we are using these sets....


the xyY are absolute labels for what a certain color looks like to us.

As is sRGB, HSL, etc.


RGB, however, are not and you'd need a different % in each channel on different sets to get the same color.
 
#175 ·

Quote:
Originally Posted by wtfer /forum/post/14119133


Well Samsung seems to changes the white balance in the service menu after a firmware upgrade & even on the same firmwares.

This if from the A650, someone took pictures of all of the sub menus in the service menu from all the different firmware upgrades & I compared my then 1003.M firmware & they were all different.


Code:
Code:
White Balance

                      1002.3      1003.G      1003.M      1003.M (mine)    2001.3

Sub Brightness          128          128           128          128            128
R_Offset                507          507           507          521            521
G_Offset                512          512           512          512            512
B_Offset                504          504           504          508            508
Sub Contrast            134          134           134          134            134
R_Gain                  518          518           518          497            497
G_Gain                  512          512           512          512            512
B_Gain                  500          500           500          510            510
Movie R-offset          516          506           506          522            520
Movie B-offset          509          506           506          509            507
Movie R-Gain            540          555           555          523            540
Movie R-Gain            396          398           398          420            411
If anyone does a final calibration, maybe they could post there service menu WB settings as well (going/leaving the service menu resets all of your normal settings btw).

Hey wtfer, I already went in service menu to do my calibrations, here are the WB settings for the 750 with FW 1007


Brightness and Contrast: 128

Every Offset and Gain: 512

Movie R-Offset 518

Movie B-Offset 505

Movie R-Gain 555

Movie B-Gain 443
 
#176 ·

Quote:
Originally Posted by skibum5000 /forum/post/14119192


But the guy who created the Accupel calculator even directly confirmed in the 71 series thread that you should always try to make them closest to REC601or709 and NOT use the accupel derived secondaries for the way we are using these sets....


the xyY are absolute labels for what a certain color looks like to us.

As is sRGB, HSL, etc.


RGB, however, are not and you'd need a different % in each channel on different sets to get the same color.

Well, the thread on the Accupel calculator that he started is full of statements that this is how the calculator should be used, including Tom Huffman stating that secondaries are not absolute but are defined as the point a line from a primary passes through the white point and intersects the line between the two opposite primaries. And 'the guy' never objects to any of these statements.


I don't think he really understood what we were asking him.


And I do think you and I should just agree to disagree perhaps.
 
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