Official LNXXA550 Calibration/Settings Thread - Page 8

i didnt test your 360 settings yet outsider, i have a question since im using the dynamic mode as my base setting, i dont know if it has edge enchanment on or what. so how much should i set sharpness on in your opinion to get the most POP? i think 20 lowers the pop effect from my expirience, what do you think?

and i have another question like i said in my previous post , on the 360 i got different calibration settings for the brightness(360 hooked with component) and on the ps3 i got different setting for the brightness(hdmi) on the ps3 the brightness is 49, on the 360 its 36, so what should my point of view be, that whenenever i hook up some device via component i should always set brightness to 36 and on hdmi 49? i tried going by that thinking but like i said earlier , my brother started playing GTA after i calibrated on the 360(brightness set to 36) and it was night in the game and the dark parts really werent visible, i quickly raised up the brightness to 48 and all is as should be. what do you think?

Anyone have any settings made especially for the fugly wii or fugly analog cable? Thebegginings settings look alright for the wii but they could use a little bit more something.

hey guys i was playing gta4 and at night time i noticed some areas were very grayish, like black and white movie grayish, there wasn't a hint or tint of color in areas like streets, trees seemed really uncolored, buildings seemed too gray but the windows that lit up were yellow, its like a bright yellow window on a gray building with 0 color, it feels like a color is missing from my tv.

I find that the colours are muted in the game. Compare the colours in the opening sequence of pictures (when you first start the game up) to the actual game play itself. The colours in-game are definitely muted. I think it is designed to have a film noir type feel.

I also notice colors smear off objects when DNR is on high, is this normal? I have it off and it's fine, but happens on all sources.

Does this TV have a "crisp", clear picture? I have seen this set at BB, CC and Sears and the picture always looks washed out and "blurry" compared to all other Tv's. It's always next to a 650, panny or sony V3000 so I do not know if the 650 or others are that much better (in other aspects) or the settings are off on all 550 series?

My daughter purchased a Toshiba HL167 (47") and I thought it looked green & not worth the money, so after my urging i took it back to BB after 45days & exchanged it for a 446A550. No problem with the exchange since it was over 30 days. Man, what a bic difference. It blows away the Toshiba. My wife even said it looked better than out Sharp. So, Daughter & husband is happy! See...... Listen to your parents you younger folks! We know better

So I tried those updated settings to mine, and noticed it made the screen way to grainy. So I went back to mine at 5 backlight and everything still looks amazing.

not too many options when your 360 is hooked up via vga (pc) port.

i ended up with dynamic, brightness of 8 and expanded reference levels on the 360 itself. it looks ok for now.

does anyone else notice a "gray" or drop off in some light brown's/ light yellows ? or am i just seeing things?

lol^. thanks for posting your opinion thebegining. hey guys i have a question, like i said before i have the monster power surge and it has a cable in and out jacks that you can run your coaxial signal cable through and it claims to clean the signal, should i hook it up or directly from the wall to the cable box and from cable box to TV is better? i mean the proccess is longer if i hook it to the monster power surge because then its like this: from the wall into the monster power surge's cable in, from there cable out to the "cable in" in the cable box, from there cable out to the cable in on the tv. what do you think?

Hi guys. I am trying to get my LN46A550 dialed in perfect for GTA IV on my PS3 via HDMI. I thought it looked like crap running at 720p(i have read that the game is actually 630p on PS3). I decided to untick the 720p and 1080i settings in the PS3 to make the game run at 1080p( which it says it supports). That improved it in my eyes, but not enough!

I am wondering how things like DNIe, Dynamic Contrast, and Digital NR affect gaming? Should they be on or off?

Has anyone with the same setup as me found any top notch settings yet?

Thanks for any and all help!

turn DNR off, i found colors smear off objects when it is on, let me know if you see the same, really obvious in gta4.

its not easy man , trust me, i got my ln46a550 few days ago i at least am looking around trying to combine this and that setting to come up with the best, to my eyes atleast, the setting thebegining posted is great, it has greta contrast and all , the outsider's setting is good too but if u like alot of light on the picture i guess u can call it then id prefer u the dynamic based setting of thebegining

I've talked to several of my friends who have varying quality TVs and GTA 4 and I've come to the conclusion that despite the rave reviews the graphics aren't 100% fresh.

There is a bit of blurring the game, but again most of my friends get it too, same with the crappy textures on the pavement.

Saddly the graphics don't look as good as Saint's Row which had fairly basic graphics but none the less looked alright.


edit: Scratch what I just said I used all outridervw's setting and DAMN THIS LOOKS SWEET! Thanks man!

NOW if only ANYONE has any good settings for the WII its FUGLY looking, ANYONE? Anyone at all? We should be able to get bright colours but give it some kinda bluriness to kill SOME jaggies.

Can anyone at least tell me where to start with the Wii ? Like I said I need BRIGHT colours(thats what it puts out) and blurriness to compensate for the horrid jaggies, do I do movie, standard or dynamic for starters?

what are your display settings on the TV right now ph00p?


oh and i have a question, on the cable box, i have selected OUTPUT RESOLUTION to be ONLY 1080i, should i enabled 480p aswell? non hd channels will look better with 480p than 1080i?

I tried this and it looks amazing now along with thebeginnings settings!

Thanks so much. GTA IV is now OPTIMIZED!

what do you have your brightness and backlight set on, SpitKing?

Dynamic Mode
Backlight 5 (or 6, i like both lol)
Contrast 84
Brightness 52
Sharpness 50
Color 51
Tint(G/R) G55/R45


Picture Options
Color Tone - Normal
Digital NR - Off
DNIe - On
Film Mode - Auto

Energy Savings -Off


This is for my PS3 via HDMI

Those are my settings! Glad you like them, I do too.

ah, but those are the easy settings. the challenge is in the white balance!

guys , after testing so many settings i think i have finally found the setting with the most POP and amazing visuals, , its based on thebegining's settings of course so im just going to say what i changed in thebegining's settings, all the rest is the same.

backlight: 7(found picture is much more richer in color and overall quality, 4-5 or even 6 kindda kills the liveness of the image but 6 is ok too i guess but 7 is better )

contrast: 84(like thebegining's)
brightness: 45
sharpness: 50
color:51 (54 on HDMI!)
tint: 55/45

and all the rest the same as thebegining's , so whats difference is my backlight and the brightness, hey these 2 really make a difference, what do you think thebegining/outsider? is the brightness too high/low in your opinion?

and i have a question , for the output resolution on the cable box, should i set it to 1080i ONLY or 480p too? because if i let it use 480p too then standard channels are showed in 480p but if i uncheck 480p and leave only 1080i then i guess it upscales all channels including SD channels to 1080i, correct? which is the best way to go?

Ok i have a noob question. How do you change the output of the cable box? I have Charter HD and all of my HD channels are in 1080i. Can i make it 1080p? I am running the box via Component.


Thanks!

Well since nobody had any suggestions for the Wii settings I just took the default settings and turned sharpness down to 5 and colour up to 75 it seems that higher made the yuck come out, I did a few other things but nothing out of the standard settings posted on here. Overall the wii looks as good as it can, as there isn't a fidelity to preserve the main objective is to kill jaggies while making everything really colourful. It passes for Mario Kart Wii anyway that was all I wanted atm.