Well, I've read every post in every Planar thread over the past six months, and have gathered what ppl are saying about calibrating the PD7150. Here is my summary:
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default cinema, low lamp mode and 6500k
Audioholics - All of our primary evaluations were done using the 3:2 pull down Film Mode
with Video on film (VOF) set to 'On'. ColorFacts Pro 6.0
Sharpness Normal
Gamma 2.2
Color Temp 6500k
Brightness spot on
Contrast 11
White Enhance On
DCTI color edge enhancement 1 or 0, depending on whether it bothers, or pops.
Grayson73 - DVE
White Enhance on
Eco mode off
Colors looking were spot on.
Memory 1 (dark room):
Gamma 2.2
Brightness -2
Contrast 9
Memory 2 (ambient light):
Gamma 1.5 (I found 1.0 to be too washed out colorwise)
Brightness -4
Contrast 9
E-A-G-L-E-S
~N8.6 light grey screen.(Cream $ Sugar)
No ambient light, but all my walls are off-white.
Brightness -2
Contrast +12
R Gain & Offset -1
B Gain & Offset +1
G Gain & Offset -2
Gamma 2.2
Sharpness - Normal
Eco lamp
tonywood
White Enhance ON (for best lightout and contrast?) boost contast and lumens output
(crushing?) DCTI 1 (enhances color?) Digital Chroma Transient Improvement - enhanced
color and sharpness per pixelworks document Contrast 10 (without crushing white?)
Sharpness Sharp
krasmuzik
White Enhance off
DCTI 0 - edge enhancement for color. Look for ringing of color edges
First of all, what does "default cinema" mean? I can't find a cinema setting in the projector. Second, am I right that we have no Interlace setting when running HDMI, so can not set DCTI? And what is Video on film? Is this a setting in ColorFacts?
I've derived the consensus settings:
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Color Temp 6500k
Gamma 2.2
Sharpness Normal
Brightness spot on
Contrast 11
White Enhance On
... and the result does not look natural to me. I try to say that I am just not used to it, but I am used to what looks natural and this doesn't. I don't have any sort of calibration software or equipment, and going by consensus or most credible adjustments has always worked for me in the past. I don't want it to look like a 'TV picture', I want it to look normal.
White Enhance - When on, this fairly shrieks at me. I have a formica screen that's Ice White, which is just a hair grayer than white. I'm thinking about painting Black Widow, and don't know whether this would be an improvement, or too dark. This screen has done me very well for three years giving a 10' presentation with dim projectors.
Contrast - Last week's Saturday Night Live where the intro interviewed "Dick Cheney" was HD and two people on a black background. Definitely too much contrast in the colors, and when I cranked it down to 5 it was better, but still something was wrong.
Brightness - When the Sun shining off ppl's bald head is blazing white, something's wrong. And blacks had lots of mosquito noise, so I followed this advice:
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Originally Posted by
Skypalace 
Show any true black (black bars, black screen, whatever, just needs to be a reasonable area of the screen that's supposed to be full black), and go up close to the screen and see if there is dithering (moving white speckling). Then knock Brightness down until the dithering stops and you have full black. This will be clear - one notch too high and it's dithering, knock it down one more and it completely stops.
For almost all modes and inputs on my 7130, this is at -14 Brightness. I haven't messed with other settings (yet), but this very clearly improves black levels.
Yes and for me this was -11. Much more 3D than it had been, and bald heads looked better, although darker areas seemed crushed. Maybe my contrast is still too high at 5?
And there is still an unnatural quality that I can't put my finger on, like colors are too saturated maybe. Can anyone advise?
And finally, I too have the vacuum-cleaner fan for the first 40 minutes it's on. Has anyone determined a fix yet? This is noticeable even with the show's sound on.
